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...contrast, tabloids, gossip magazines, and most notably cable news channels have had a field day with the Peterson case. On Fox News Channel, for example, there was nary a day during Scott Peterson’s trial that chief legal analyst Greta Van Susteren didn’t make the case front and center on her program “On the Record.” On MSNBC, meanwhile, the host of “The Abrams Report” Dan Abrams featured a segment on the trial every day until its culmination. Thankfully, network news and the mainstream newspapers...
...soap opera saga that is the Scott Peterson case has finally reached its last leg. The snarky, nefarious California salesman is going to fry—or at least remain locked up for the rest of eternity. While the details of this case are undoubtedly serious and sobering, the mind-boggling amount of media coverage it has garnered is grossly out of proportion with its national importance. In fact, the media circus surrounding this case is downright sickening...
Every year, roughly 200,000 adults are reported missing. Yet the Peterson case had an almost complete monopoly on media coverage, leaving the vast majority of missing adults anonymous victims...
...such anonymous case is that of Evalyn Hernandez. Like Laci Peterson, this pregnant young California woman was brutally murdered with her unborn baby. Also like Laci, her remains were found in San Francisco Bay. Interestingly, the national media never even made mention of this case...
...account for the difference in media coverage between the case of Evalyn Hernandez and the case of Laci Peterson? Laci is a Caucasian, middle class housewife from Modesto; Evalyn Hernandez is a poor immigrant from the Philippines. While this might not indicate inherent racism on the part of the media, it does represent the media’s obsession with the bottom line. The unwarranted airtime given to the Laci Peterson case is simply a tactic to boost ratings by covering the story that has the broadest public appeal—and, sadly, a case involving a young wealthy white...