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More Crap Released in Caylee Anthony Investigation
Friday, September 26, 2008 at 3:56 pm
The update and link in a moment, but first take a minute to hear comedian Kevin Craft expressing what I find to be a totally legitimate sentiment with this question: "Are white kids more important than black kids?"
Of course they're not -- but you'd never know it from mainstream media coverage of the Anthony case -- or the Holloway disappearance, or the murder of JonBenet, etc., etc....
As I write this there are 7 active national Amber Alerts. Two of the children, Pablo and Alicia Hernandez, are hispanic. How many people reaching this post through a Google search on the Anthony case have heard of them? Damned few, I'd bet.
We who cover the disappearance of Caylee Anthony are in a damned if you do and damned if you don't situation -- we know there are a lot of people seeking info, and if you write a blog for pay and have advertisers on the blog, you need that traffic. If you run a news channel, you need those eyes on your advertisers' commercials. At the same time, I am sure a lot of us recognize the inequity that Kevin Craft talks about in the video above. All I can say is that it drives me a little batty, too. I try to correct it when I can, but I rarely succeed. I'd like to know how to fix such a thing -- I believe, as Mr. Craft does, that all missing children are important. I don't know how to fix the inequity in coverage at the moment. I do know it's a matrix -- it isn't all on the shoulders of folks broadcasting, writing, blogging about these things. It is partly on the shoulders of average citizens hitting the Web searching for information. I guess I'm saying we all need to search ourselves where this subject is concerned and try and find an answer to Kevin's question. All children are important, and it is desperately important that we let the world know when a single one of them is missing and endangered.
That said, here's your damned Anthony case update. It'll be quick, because I can only hold my nose for so long.
More case documents have been released by the State. They reveal some odd stuff from Casey's laptop, like a disturbing image asking "Why do people kill people?"
An image of Tupac was saved to the same laptop. Some lyrics were superimposed on the pic: "You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened ... or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on." Of course the writer of the lyrics had his own meaning in mind. For Casey, the words could express a sociopath's way of justifying actions that would weigh heavily on the conscience of a normal person.
Also worth noting -- out of the 553 texts Casey sent over two months -- April to June -- only two made any sort of reference to her daughter. Big surprise, huh?
Finally, for this update -- Zenaida Gonzalez is suing Casey Anthony for defamation. Good luck -- and I mean it -- with that, Ms. Fernandez. Go for the big bucks. Don't aim low.
Tags: Amber Alerts, Casey Marie Anthony, Caylee Anthony, chloroform, Cindy Anthony, commentary, disappearances, documents, interviews, Kevin Craft, missing child, missing Orlando girl, unsolved
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