{"id":596,"date":"2004-02-06T05:54:32","date_gmt":"2004-02-06T10:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/02\/media_fixation\/"},"modified":"2004-02-06T05:54:32","modified_gmt":"2004-02-06T10:54:32","slug":"media_fixation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/02\/media_fixation\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Fixation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<br \/>\nThe latest example of this is the car wash kidnapping of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/US\/South\/02\/05\/missing.girl\/index.html\">Carlie Brucia<\/a>.  As far as I can tell, the reason the media has became fixated with this case because:<br \/>\n(1) a video camera caught the abduction, and<br \/>\n(2) it involves a cute white girl (see JonBenet Ramsey, Elizabeth Smart, et al.).<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t do much about my age and gender.  But if someone ever commits a crime against me, I hope the TV cameras are rolling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/02\/media_fixation\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Media Fixation\"><p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-596","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}