"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message
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> somebody <x### [at] ycom> wrote:

> > Same thing happens in all kinds of media coverage. How many people go
> > missing in USA per year? But if one white, wealthy, attractive, young
woman
> > goes missing, it busies the headlines for weeks and months.

>   I somewhat agree with this. While cases like
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_McCann
> are terrible, the media attention *this* one case got is way out of
> proportion IMO.

And one of the longest articles on Wiki - some country entries have shorter
and less researched content! So it's not just the mainstream commercial
media that fuels the fire. Does it have any encyclopaedic value at all?

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