Thursday, June 30, 2005
Media
I have been watching the media coverage of the missing teenager in Aruba. Life is so interesting...I will not defile the young ladies character by getting into why she was and where she was at the time of her disappearance. Rather what I would like to focus on is how the story is painted in the US media. This young lady has gone through so many different characters is not funny. She has gone from young country girl to regular teenager to saint.
What struck the cord that drove this post is how the law enforcement experts and the investigators and the critics have painted the process employed by the Aruban authorities in their investigations. First and foremost......we are talking about a Dutch island in the Caribbean. Secondly Aruba is not the US as a matter of fact they are not a US territory so their methods of doing things will be different so leave the people and stop imposing your value system on them. Thirdly, when did the United States become experts in law enforcement procedures? If you guys are so good go clean up some of the crime in your own back yard and stop fassing in other people business. I can imagine the frustration of a nation trying to accomplish a task when everybody who don't belong there in the first place looking over your shoulder and criticizing every thing you do.
I have news for you.....there are experts in every known field known to man and guess what?....they don't all reside in the US nor do they all aspire to be aligned to the US and their policies.
Frankly I'm just tired of the media sensationalism that is following this case and frankly last nights news item was just sickening.
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You talking abt the CNN bit with the stepfather? If so I think he sounded a bit too contemptuous of the Aruban law process.Yeah,they grieving and all that but still....
True words Scratch! Dr. D.
This may come of harsh, but what of it? I think the contempt stems from disappointment that there hasn't been a lynching yet.
People go missing all the time within the U.S. and they don't get this much media. U.S. journalism nowadays is all about the ratings and money; who cares about being objective or telling the truth.
senstionalising this case has been one of the many things contributing to me not watching the news last week and early this. i do not mean to sound cruel or unsympathetic but media has blown it up so much that i hold more resentment for the fact that there are more black children than white in the us that get kidnapped and none of them are getting this attention. a friend and i held a long debate as to the tactics of the media and why they do such a thing. ratings. more people respond to a middle class white child being kidnapped and murdered than a black child because its just so. it's accepted factor that black people will die, slay, suffer ill consequences from all things because, well, they are black. i was heated in this debate and found it better to leave it alone than pursue it at all. if they had found someone guilty by now her step-father would have been hailing the aruban government for thier fast and thorough investigation instead of characterising it as ill. you are right scratchie that girl has been described as so many things. i could bet my bottom dollar that when she entered that bar she was not thinking of converting anyone into being the "saint" she is being described as.......
nena
It sickens me that they paint this girl as a saint when she goes off to Aruba to drink and party (which is illegal at her age in her own country).
Even worse, while watching MSNBC today they showed a clip of the Arubans transporting the suspects uncuff and with one plain clothes guard, the US Media almost had a hissy fit. They cannot believe that you can treat suspects civil and that black people can behave.
Thanks for the comments guys...glad to see that it's not me one feeling this way....
Str8. Tired of dem tuh yaah scratchie. Chuh.
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