Capitalizing on misery
Some people aren't ashamed to do it.
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Comments (10)
Mistletoe
Posted by David E Gilmore | July 22, 2010 10:00 AM
From pretty early on in this story, I was uncomfortably reminded of a movie I saw as a kid that haunted me then and continues to to this day. "The Big Carnival."
If you haven't seen it, I hate to spoil it, but it deals with dragging on and exploiting a crisis as long as possible for the sake of $$$$. Too long.
Way, way, way ahead of its time.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043338/
Posted by PDXLifer | July 22, 2010 10:07 AM
Capitalism at its finest.
Posted by Allan L. | July 22, 2010 10:17 AM
The News Media is loving the Kyron story as its cheap news that can fill ten minutes of most broadcasts.
Hey, when they are running Free Public Service spots in the 5:PM news hour you know they gotta be hurting.
Posted by Abe | July 22, 2010 11:46 AM
Freaking vultures.
(But I predict I will buy the Ann Rule book one day in an airport somewhere when it is published in paperback.)
Posted by none | July 22, 2010 12:00 PM
Funny I thought you were talking about KATU
Posted by pj | July 22, 2010 12:17 PM
What drives you nuts is maybe there is something among this entire whack pack that the longer they don't find Kyron, the more TV time and more potential contracts.
It just feels like that.
Posted by Steve | July 22, 2010 12:19 PM
eeewwweeeww!
Creepy
Posted by portland native | July 22, 2010 1:51 PM
NBC aired a story about the Dianne Downs that included an interview of one of the children who survived and had just come forward 2 or 3 weeks before Kyron's disappearance. Did not seem like a coincidence to me.
Posted by Robert | July 22, 2010 2:01 PM
Speaking of opportunistic media d-bags, how about the UFO guy on KPAM Saturday night who claimed on the air that he knows a guy who knows where Kyron is, but oops, he ran out of time before he could share what he knew.
Tune in Saturday! Maybe he'll get around to it.
Posted by Bean | July 22, 2010 5:55 PM