Grieving mothers...

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Why is it that the media have been so slow to respond to Cindy Sheehan's heartbreaking situation, but Natalee Holloway's parents have become prime time celebrities? Is it because one of the situations confirms people's beliefs that the world is a dangerous place and Americans need to protect themselves, and the other situations calls into question everything people would like to believe about their country and its government?

Just a thought, and I'm on my way out the door, so I won't be around to discuss until later.

[lildreamer316]

1. Very.Good. Point.

I am tempted to use this as a guilt trip from hell to a certain lady at court TV.
I am LiberalLeo; Hear me Roar. Scratch scratch.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Excellent point!

[dbt]

3. Five Sorry Sons Of Bitches

effectively control ALL the media in this country. They are all FOR bu$hler. If they want the Sheehan story ignored, it gets ignored.

This is one of the nasty things that happen when too few people own too much of anything: Moron Amerika.

[AngryOldDem]

4. Look at it this way

It's much easier on the conscience to accept a "fateful event," a "random act of violence" or whatever other euphemism you want to put on the Natalee Holloway case. It's MUCH harder on the conscience to watch a grieving mother of a soldier who died for a lie rightly demand that this government answer to and be accountable for its actions.

Cindy Sheehan is speaking to many, many consciences these days, and some just cannot handle it.

Admitting that our government just might have made a huge mistake that many more of our sons and daughters will have to die for comes a little too close to stark reality for many people -- especially those who have been laboring under the delusion that our government is always right, and always acts in our best interests. Hence, it's easier to focus on the "vacation tragedy" and feel sorry for the missing-and-presumed-dead teen rather than make oneself uncomfortable with some very hard and undeniable truths about soldiers dying daily -- probably hourly -- in Iraq.

Just my $0.02.