Kyron Horman story "over-reported"

[Dee10]

It is a very very strange case and to speculate further, I would not at all be surprised that they have been couched (somewhat) by an FBI profiler at least initially. If LE suggested they "not go there" or "stop going there" I believe they would. They have both tried to be very careful on answering questions in regards to the investigation. I believe they have said, they talk to LE daily before and no doubt in my mind interview areas or the like are discussed at different times.

I have never witnessed a case like this one, in the parents coming out this way (let alone missing from school) and it has gripped the nation.

 

[Kat010]

p.s. I meant to post this right after my other post, but I had to take a phone call.

Before the public stoning begins :angel: let me say this:

1. I am playing devil's advocate here, offering up different perspectives;
2. I understand the difference between needing a RO for a spouse with custodial rights and someone outside the family;
3. I'm afraid that with the emphasis on family stuff, the key message of "help us find Kyron" will get overlooked. And, as others have pointed out, that the naming of a "guilty" party will muddy the waters.

I also have on my asbestos undies from Victoria's Secret. Man, the underwire on the asbestos...ouch!:moose:

 

[crystalgenie]

Pass the asbestos undies...

If there hadn't been so much titillating and tantilizing information coming out this case would have gone quiet 3 months ago.

The press would have dropped this story if it wasn't for the mfh, sexting, and public accusations made by exes.

It is sad to say but that is the way the public wants and that's the way they get it.

A story has to have a hook and a missing person or child cannot be the hook for the story. Think about all the true crime novels that you have read. It's not just a story about the murdered or missing it is a story about them and everyone and everything that surrounds them.

I read the WW article and I hate to agree with it. There has been no real news about Kyron but their has been a lot of news about his family.

Go ahead start casting stones this way.

JMHO.

 

[cluciano63]

It is a very very strange case and to speculate further, I would not at all be surprised that they have been couched (somewhat) by an FBI profiler at least initially. If LE suggested they "not go there" or "stop going there" I believe they would. They have both tried to be very careful on answering questions in regards to the investigation. I believe they have said, they talk to LE daily before and no doubt in my mind interview areas or the like are discussed at different times.

I have never witnessed a case like this one, in the parents coming out this way (let alone missing from school) and it has gripped the nation.

I don't know that the nation is really following this case...we are, as that is what we do here and we are from all over. It pops up on national news every so often, but it is far from being a constant. In fact, it would probably get more national coverage if LE would ever speak up, but they have always seemed to believe it is a local story/local solution.

 

[SurfieTX]

The WW will look like total FOOLS if they report on this presser by DY. Just MHO.

 

[debs]

The WW will look like total FOOLS if they report on this presser by DY. Just MHO.

I'm sure they're aware they went off the reservation and aren't team players.

 

[crystalgenie]

I can't find any Kyron Horman stories, by WW, since August 12 other than the Op Ed on over reported news. I searched their site and haven't found any coverage of press conferences or anything.

 

[BeanE]

I can't find any Kyron Horman stories, by WW, since August 12 other than the Op Ed on over reported news. I searched their site and haven't found any coverage of press conferences or anything.

No, they stopped reporting some time ago. We've got the author of most of the stories, James Pitkin, in our Whatever Happened To? thread.

 

[Kat010]

Pass the asbestos undies...

If there hadn't been so much titillating and tantilizing information coming out this case would have gone quiet 3 months ago.

The press would have dropped this story if it wasn't for the mfh, sexting, and public accusations made by exes.

It is sad to say but that is the way the public wants and that's the way they get it.

A story has to have a hook and a missing person or child cannot be the hook for the story. Think about all the true crime novels that you have read. It's not just a story about the murdered or missing it is a story about them and everyone and everything that surrounds them.

I read the WW article and I hate to agree with it. There has been no real news about Kyron but their has been a lot of news about his family.

Go ahead start casting stones this way.

JMHO.

Here ya go--I order asbestos undies in bulk. Easier that way.

I wonder if DY is going to have anything to say about coverage today. Off to wait for that!

 

[Donjeta]

I read the WW article and I hate to agree with it. There has been no real news about Kyron but their has been a lot of news about his family.

It's true but I don't know what the alternative would be. If there is nothing interesting to report about the family and the child is not found will there be any news? He is just a child so it's probably no use to go digging for newsworthy things he has done in his past. He's been playing and going to school, no news there. He is in the public eye because he is missing and he is missed. There is nothing new to report about where he is and what has happened to him because either no one knows or LE isn't telling. The media could write headlines about it's been 12 weeks and Kyron is still missing, it's been 13 weeks and Kyron is still missing, it's been 14 weeks and he's still missing, but after a while it stops being news, sadly.

 

[pittsburghgirl]

I believe that some members of freak show families might grieve their children just as much as the rest of us.

I thanked your post, but it wasn't enoigh. Well said.

 

[JBean]

hey I would freak my family up a bit if it would keep my missing baby in the news.

 

[cluciano63]

Well JVM had a brief bit of coverage tonight with the Bruce guy from Portland, former something or other...he indicated that MCSO is not getting the help they expected from those other departments...no one can spare the bodies or the money...

He also said he thought that if Kyron could be brought home, no questions asked, his parents would be all for immunity...not sure about that. But too, he said that LE is not acting with urgency and I've noticed this for months...he thinks that if they thought Kyron was alive, they would have tried offering some sort of deal to Terri.

 

[Donjeta]

If LE had offered some sort of deal to Terri, would we know?

 

[cluciano63]

If LE had offered some sort of deal to Terri, would we know?

I doubt it...we don't know anything else. And she did not get a lawyer until 6/30...it seems as though any deal would have been much sooner, if at all, while it still could be conceived as a big "mix-up" for example...as in telling Terri that first weekend, come on, we know you didn't mean it, so tell us where he is, bring him home and we'll...whatever...

By the time she got a lawyer, it was almost a month into the case...and that much less likely that he would be alive...Bruce on TV said they would not offer a deal if they felt he was deceased...

 

[angelswatchoverthem]

Perhaps its the media's shortcoming in not writing of other missing children and the plight of the pain the family endure. If not a priority then perhaps they need to make it one. It seems that some of these cases have been there for a long time and the media loses interest after a while, because there is no further sensationalistic news to write to bring in the profits. No missing child should ever be about profit or selling news, i feel it is a media responsibility to keep those missing children's faces in their news articles at least once a week, so people don't forget these poor innocent children. Just because a long time goes by and they are not found, doesn't make them less of a priority.
The media is a good way of reminding people about these children no matter who they are, and what socio economic background they are from. I agree that instead of all the "trash reporting" (so called trashy celebrities IMO) they do , please make all these children a priority and keep them all in the publics focus. If media doesn't do this then who will? These forums certainly keep these children in focus, but not everyone is into these crime sleuthing forums either.

 

[Michael25]

It's not a matter of excessive coverage but what that coverage is about. Writers and newspapers are smart in that they know the weight of headlines. A missing child is one thing. A missing child whose household is subject to alleged murder-for-hires, infidelity, etc. is another. The media exist in a way that we, as a collective, fashion them to exist. In other words, don't blame the messenger.

 

[pufnstuf]

Regarding "freak-show family."

In my opinion, the author is not necessarily calling the family "freaks." She's impugning the public's hunger for the salacious in this case and in others.

Freak shows wouldn't survive if the public didn't prop them up. IF the public had no interest in the "freak show," then the media wouldn't spoon feed it to the public.

Look at what our news has become. There's not a single newsman on TV today of the ilk of Cronkite or Murrow. Why?

In my opinion, Bread and Circuses. Give the public what they want and keep them amused.

As for the Williamette Weekly--it's as guilty as any Oregonian outlet of promoting the Bread and Circuses atmosphere that surrounds this case.

Having said that, I do agree with the author of this item, IF the reader is only attending to salacious news and knows nothing of the stories that she believes should be reported more.

I believe, though, that it's up to the reader, not the news outlet, to determine which stories he or she will follow, and a wise reader is a curious reader, who follows not only the Tea Party and Kyron stories, but also the Blackwater news (scary as hell), the ICE news, and the DOD environmental news (also scary as hell).

I think I'll allow myself not to be offended by the message this author is trying to get across to her readers. To cherrypick her article for suspect quotations, to me, is not fair to the author.

All my opinion.

 

[pufnstuf]

The media exist in a way that we, as a collective, fashion them to exist. In other words, don't blame the messenger.

I could not agree more.

 

[eileenhawkeye]

I definitely think it all comes down to ratings. What other explanation could their be? Some stories are going to bring in more viewers which means more money for the news organizations. I can't see them refusing to cover a story that would bring them $$$. If another child goes missing in Portland who brings better ratings (therefore, more $$) than Kyron, the media would run over to cover that story. It really does sounds like putting a price on the life of a child and seeing who is worth more.

These ratings are determined by the public. Being sympathetic towards a story isn't enough; the public has to want to know what happened and why. Where is he or she? Who killed him or her? Why is the neighbor acting suspicious? I think that when anyone reads about a missing child or murder victim, we feel very sad for that person and their family and friends but we don't go and investigate and read everything we can get on hands on in every case. In some cases we go, "That's horrible and I hope justice is served." and in others, we watch everything on TV that features that case. Why?

For example, in the JonBenet case, it's been announced that the BPD wanted to reinterview her brother, Burke. We have no idea what was said during the interview so this is a very small development yet it's been reported by Inside Edition, Nancy Grace, AOL, The Globe, and The Early Show nearly 14 years after her murder. 99% of missing children don't receive any national coverage when their case is "hot" yet JonBenet can get it 14 years later with a very small development. Why? Ratings and $$.