One thing that continues to intrigue me is how the media herd locks in on a single, random story and covers it incessantly, to the exclusion of hundreds of similar tales.
The latest example of this is the car wash kidnapping of Carlie Brucia. As far as I can tell, the reason the media has became fixated with this case because:
(1) a video camera caught the abduction, and
(2) it involves a cute white girl (see JonBenet Ramsey, Elizabeth Smart, et al.).
I can’t do much about my age and gender. But if someone ever commits a crime against me, I hope the TV cameras are rolling.