Dear Nancy Grace and Cronies:
Congratulations on the recent highest ratings ever. Your tears over the Casey Anthony non-guilty verdict were on spot for the occasion. Now that you've got the momentum going, how about shifting your ever powerful talking head toward the other child murders to be prosecuted in the same area? Or, don't they meet your criteria for media sensationalism? Are the victims non-white? Are they poor, black or hispanic and don't meet your definition of cute? What is truly amazing in the coverage of this tragic situation, the hundreds of people congregating at the courthouse, the thousands (or is it millions) commenting on hundreds (or is it thousands) of websites and blogs and facebook posts express their utter horror over the verdict, but they have no awareness or opinion whatsoever of the child murders in their own communities. The medical examiner could not determine a cause of death. So the jury couldn't convict.
Our society has supposedly come a long way since the days when an abused child's greatest agency of protection was the S.P.C.A. But ask any local child protective services or law enforcement authority and you will be told of numerous attrocities to children that are difficult to prove, go under the radar and go unpunished. For example: a four month old infant dies when his parent "rolls over" on him. He's taken to the hospital but we are too busy watching Nancy Grace carry on to notice the ambulance on our street. The physician examining the child notes evidence of abuse. But the family of the victim's parent has money. Clout. The child's grandparents are best friends with the publishers of the only newspaper in town. There is nothing reported in the media. Not even an obituary for the child. The family asks for a second opinion from another physician and the results are inconclusive - no obvious signs of abuse to the dead child. No charges are filed. The public, Nancy Grace and cronies, is not even aware that this baby has lived and died. It happens on your street. But keep watching headline news. Nancy Grace will get tell you what to think.
