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...stardom and inner-city melodrama have coalesced into a nimbus of potential meaning for the rest of us. Poverty plus celebrity plus race plus bad choices plus crime add up to ... What? Should we compare the media coverage of the Hudsons unfavorably with that of white victims like JonBen??t Ramsey and Chandra Levy? Must it take an Academy Award to make one family's trauma stand out against a drumbeat of urban crime...
...history. This past spring and summer, Europe and much of the rest of the globe became fixated on the disappearance, which carries both the international breadth of the Diana tragedy and the hypersentimental, at times prurient fascination that Americans brought to the unsolved case of another little blond girl, JonBen??t Ramsey...
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