Okay...what is it with all the "search for missing child" news stories?

[Obamarama]

The latest in almost a daily "lost child" news cycle: YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. - The search for a 13-year-old Boy Scout who fell into the fast-moving Yellowstone River expanded Sunday as nearly 200 park officials and volunteers scoured the river by kayak and on foot. :http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050626/ap_on_re_us/missing_scout

What, I ask, makes this worthy of national news coverage? I am not discounting the horror the kids parents are experiencing, but just what are we benefitting from knowing about this sad turn of events?

If the MSM would do their FUCKING JOBS and report about REAL ISSUES that affect ALL AMERICANS, they wouldn't be ambulance chasing these types of stories like the maudlin tabloid journalists they are.

Am I the only one tired of seeing these ubiquitous accounts?

[Cassandra]

1. As a change of pace...

I saw a shark attack story yesterday. All distractions.

[jmc777]

2. They are paving the way for....

....implantable tracker chips. The public must be conditioned to accept it as a positive thing. Keep an eye out for references to chips in the MSM over the coming weeks/months.

[murray hill farm]

3. then it must be time for..

an "important" child or two to go missing! Someone like, say...a kennedy grandchild...or say...any child of prominant and well known person...preferably a "do goooder" or "treehugger" child or grandchild. it puts us then in the mind to want to do something about it..anything.

[ClintonTyree]

4. It sells....

it's every parent's nightmare. It gets parents back into the "fear" mode and they stay tuned for very detail that might save them the same heartache.

[Lexingtonian]

5. look at it the other way around

Summers are slow, newswise. Between Independence Day and Labor Day all the people who make big decisions and lead big fights are on vacations and such. The elites are off pondering stuff and taking care of their personal lives and concerns.

So summer is about little people and what is interesting about them and interesting to them. It's about group trends and group behaviors that are ignored the rest of the year. Just why are so many young people out trying to surf on the west Florida coast? Are Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts increasingly full of the dorky sort of little boys with the slow parents and all the cool and smart ones stay away? Are Southern white young women getting unable to cope with the less structured world of the present? Just how bad is ghetto life? That sort of thing.

It's also escape from talk about the elites and "issues" that fill the papers the rest of the year. For a lot of people it's the part of the year that news is about people like themselves. But the same thing happens every year, too-by mid-August the media people and the readers/viewers are bored and annoyed. Average people are only modestly interesting to the audiences and on the whole quite boring and not too bright. The trends can only be talked about so much before No One Cares. If everyone's trying to sell their SUVs now, which is actually beginning, just how many interesting stories and explanations are there? "I was stupid, I wanted an impressive looking car, I indulged myself, now I can't afford it and it was a piece of crap car after the novelty wore off"....how far can that get taken?

[Chipper Chat]

6. It's all the MSM godfather plan to keep the fall of bush hidden.

Friday on CNN Wolf Blitzer's guests were James Carville and Terry Holt. The interview had just gotten started when the nutball CNN director switched to a fire in St. Louis. I had to watch 30 minutes of flames waiting patiently for Jim & Terry to return but they never did. I'm wondering if they both just got pissed, told Wolf "we're outa here," and went off to the nearest bar.