I love how a happy story like this can start getting people pissed off

Frankly, the whole Smart/Levy time period was good. Kidnappings were the current newsworthy item, and people were more focused on it. I fail to see how focusing on just a few instead of none is hurting the cause of finding lost kids. Sure, in your perfect little utopia, we'll have news coverage of every single abduction nationwide. Sound good? Come on, you wouldn't watch that. Therefore, what do you care?

Plus, how much direct effect do you think media coverage has on child abduction cases? I hardly think it would help, unless the investigators have a clue that could benefit from public information, and even in that case you get thousands of bogus leads. Trust me, I was in the DC Metro area during the whole Levy/Condit thing, and I didn't see the media coverage help at all. The police got thousands of bogus leads.

Quit whining and ignore what you don't want to watch. If you want to help the children, passive 11 o'clock news viewing won't do squat.


Sorry, it's been a long week