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Originally Posted by JCL
So I googled "Casey Anthony" and got 69 million hits. I don't recall it being on our local news, maybe it was. I watch a national broadcast and a local broadcast every night. But I don't watch CNN or Fox, who appear to have led the charge on this one.
My question is, why did it become such a media frenzy, and why do people have so much personally invested in the verdict? It is very sad for the child that died. But why did so many people appear to decide that the mom was guilty or not, before the verdict was in? What went wrong?
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Sensational media stories are the norm here. It was a dramatized story because of the fact that the suspect/defendant is a pretty young woman, a child was involved, and the child was missing for a month and there was a massive search for her. The story about her disappearance was also dramatic in that she was supposedly abducted by Zanny the Nanny.
I must say that it's party the nature of American media and American society. I don't believe there was nearly the sensationalism and media frenzy over Robert Pickton.