After watching Nancy Grace tonight, I've been pretty angry. Most Americans are, but my anger is for a different reason. I can understand people getting angry about today's "not guilty" verdict, but Nancy Grace like always uses her time going on with her judgmental, sensationalist pap and that's what gets me mad. The following essay was written back in 2008 about the "missing white woman" craziness, before Casey Anthony made the news for the murder case. However, this essay has been edited from its original form, mainly to fix errors, shorten length & to update outdated information. Enjoy:
I do not wish to cheapen the lives of anyone, but I'm pretty tired of the media making sensationalist news reports about missing little white girls. I try to watch the news, wanting to know about the wars happening in the Middle East or the economy, but NO. We look at a three year-old murder case that would have gone unnoticed by the mainstream media...until Nancy Grace brings it up recently and the media decides to make a circus out of it. Hell, they THRIVE on this circus because this country apparently has nothing better to do than to pay attention to this case. Nancy Grace herself makes a large deal out of this case, speculating that Casey Anthony will be declared "guilty" for the murder of her child Caylee Anthony. But...the judge's verdict happened to be a "not guilty" verdict. As you can see, the media is especially livid as a result. Especially Nancy Grace.
Nancy Grace is a hateful woman, in my opinion. She is extremely judgmental and views just about anyone who doesn't agree with own morality as scums of the Earth, and proceeds to talk shit about them while pushing her own agenda on how we should keep some derelict off the streets or something like that. Her show is the #1 source of info on missing white girls. She'd report them missing, cry about their disappearance, and gets gung-ho about trying to find and convict the perpetrator. I mean, such cases seem relatively unimportant for anyone except for family and friends of the missing person, but Ms. Grace escalates this isolated case into a national tragedy that requires the utmost judicial importance. Ok, I admit that bringing attention to missing persons cases isn't a bad thing, but think about it: just about everyone she does bring up happens to be a young white female. Disregard all others.
In short, I'd like to say: Shame on you, Nancy Grace. This is a news show, not a soapbox for your crazed obsession of missing white girls. Your actions are hateful and shameless and will do nothing to bring actual justice and instead will incite hatred among Americans. You said that there's no justice. You're right, actually. There is no justice if people actually take you seriously.
It's tragic that someone is missing, but please, give everyone, regardless of color or class, equal time, or at least put the next girl's picture on a milk carton instead of a cable news broadcast.
Bless,
