I find it horrifying that some kid would launch an article titled ‘Nietzsche is Dead: Media frenzy over Anthony’s death inappropriate‘, only an over hyper silly young college student could say such a thing. But, Matthew Albright from LSU did decide to publish. One can only hope that he is not headed for a career in the world of news. What I find incredulous is the sheer audacity of this kid. While it may be fine to talk about Nietzsche in his dorm room it is a far cry from the harsh reality surrounding the very sad story of Caylee Anthony.
No doubt young Matthew thinks incorporating Nietzsche into the title is cute, a way to show just how smart he is. Here’s the prob Matt, other than your fellow ‘expert’ learners no one but your Starbucks crowd have ever heard of the guy. What people do know is that a young girl, Caylee Anthony is dead, a young life snuffed out, as if she was a candle.
Is the media attention on this case inappropriate? I would say yes, should we take Matthews advice? I say a resounding “NO”.
Matthew claims “What actually happened is not appropriate — what should have been a private tragedy was blown into a public spectacle.”
If it was not for the press, it is unlikely that the mother Casey Anthony would be sitting in jail today, just is equally unlikely that Caylee Anthony’s remains would have been found. Was it not for the press, this sad case would be gathering dust in a dark corner of some police office.
I will be the first to admit that the press coverage has created a situation where it will be hard to find a jury that knows nothing about the story. However, the evidence does seem to be compelling. The chances of Casey Anthony experiencing another opportunity to ‘pole dance’ at her favorite Night Club are remote.
Yes, I will admit that I do think she is guilty. My wife Jan is right behind me. I have no idea how many articles have been written about Caylee Anthony, I know that here on Blogger News the number of articles is in excess of 100. The big difference between Blogger News and some school kid, is we actually care!
Matthew, maybe journalism is not for you? But I do hear that there are some great opportunities at McDonalds. I also understand the Mc ‘D’ University only takes a couple of weeks. You could be up and running before you are even missed at LSU.
Simon Barrett
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackSimon, I agree with you. I just read this guy’s article. Hey, he is young, give him a break, he is probably still idealistic and raging against the system. Lucky for him, he himself honed in on such a public story, otherwise no one would read his article! So, hasn’t he joined the parade he wanted to rain on?
One thing I do agree with in his article, is the comment about the 24/7 news. I have long wondered how will they fill those hours? Answer is they have to dwell on one topic for hours and days. Otherwise, we are left with dead air time and that won’t pay the program bills. Many of the cable stations don’t even care that we know they replay the exact same broadcasts during the day. Even my local state (NJ) news replays its stories during the day. Channel switch!
When we get such a case like Caylee Anthony, most of us want to know what is going on, not wanting this mother to get away with such a heinous crime. But, I can do without the Nancy Grace and Jane (what’s her name?) and the Leonard Padillas just hogging airtime and actually doing more harm than good.
So, where does that leave us? I don’t know. We want to know but we want to know NOW. We are victims of our own times!
I find it quite pitiful that you would criticize someone else for doing just what you do on a daily basis on this very blog. Also very sad how you openly celebrate your own ignorance (’other than your fellow ‘expert’ learners no one but your Starbucks crowd have ever heard of the guy’ [Nietzsche]). And your self-centered narcissism (’The big difference between Blogger News and some school kid, is we actually care!’).
The real difference is that the school kid has a healthier perspective. Sure the Anthony story is tragic and its good that the publicity ultimately contributed to solving the case. But hello… Get some perspective… There are literally thousands of other cases out there, many of them with children who are still missing, still being victimized. There are literally millions of other cases waiting right around the corner. It’s very self-indulgent to focus on one single case to the exclusion of practically anything else.
If you REALLY cared, you would focus your time and energy into doing something to help kids who are being victimized, or doing something to help protect kids in the future. Instead you continuously roll around in this story like a pig in slop. And you are so convinced that it’s right because you ‘really care’…
How sad for you.
Get a clue.
I know who Nietzsche is. I know the Time cover this might be referencing. Apr. 8, 1966
Don’t knock philsophers. You might learn something.
Uh oh.. now we are having philosophy quizzes? Better dig out the old dusty books.
Oh yeah.. and copies of TIME! Better hurry though, I hear that mag might be going down the tubes with the rest of the 4th estate!
You hang with a tough crowd, Simon. I was pretty callused, as young Matt appears to be, and didn’t really get over betting on the celebrity death drifecta until recently. We all grow up at differing rates is my point, I suppose.
I can see how the attention has kept people on their toes and the point can be made that the scumbag might have gotten away with this, without the 24/7 news cycle. Then again, the cycle does produce it’s own annoying white noise. Hard to say when the time is that the attention should be toned down. Usually, after people are hooked and can’t let it go. As I write this, the umpteenth local show is airing a piece on the evils of teen “sexting” and I’m listening to the same topic on NPR. I’m putting on a CD and reading the onion for a bit.
For the record, I’m in defense of the BBN. People need a place to vent and you all do it with a bit more class than Nancy G, et al, and friends. Cheers, Mark
Done With You
Yes, this should have been no different than any other missing child case. No more, no less.
What separates this case from most others, is that the parties involved as so incredibly mentally and emotionally sick. Add to that, they are totally amoral. This plot sickens.
And most of us have NEVER seen such skilled liars, who weave SUCH tales, and with SUCH minutiae.
WE seldom see that level of toxic dysfunction in OUR lives. This is a first for many of us, including me.
This will only get worse…
I come here for Nixzmary, Jessica, Adam, Caylee, Jon Bente and all of the rest that have been .harmed
Heart, your 10:14 post says it all!
The media has definetely spent alot of time on this story. On one hand the media kept pushing the story to the top assisting with Caylee’s discovery. But also there is a down side…
I turned Grace on last night and was honestly disappointed that the evidence released regarding Casey Anthony was ahead of the search for Haleigh Cummings… Come on people, keep focused on the living that still need help and then read up on the evil Casey Anthony. That is where the media doesn’t help..
I haven’t posted for quite awhile as I have been trying to wait patiently for the inevitable veridict in this case, but I am still here.
I agree this case has become an obsession, but that is most likely due to the bizarre and never ending drama that surrounds the most odd family many of us have ever encountered even when working in the criminal justice system.
It is so disgusting to think that any mother could do this and then go to parties and write how she is so happy less than a week after the death of her child. But then she is, as far as I am concerned, the only one responsible for the death of this innocent life.
Yes, we have to wait for her day in Court, but it will come and she will be foung Guilty. So critics will come and go, but this is a great site for people to discuss there thoughts and ideas in a private and non-threatening way.
I am certain these idealistic people (probably with good intentions) will eventually mature and learn the difference between idealism and realtiy.
I cant stand Starbucks…!!!
I just now actually read Matt’s article, which I have to say was not a bad article. (I hope I don’t get into trouble for that). NG has gone quite a bit overboard on this case, but it is her show.
We are all free to listen to the media source that suits us best. I for one like to here both sides of any topic as I frequently learn something new to consider. I am a true believer in “knowledge is power”.
Sharebear everyone is on another article:
CAYLEE ANTHONY: IS THE NEW EVIDENCE TYING THE CASE CLOSER TO CASEY ANTHONY
http://www.bloggernews.net/119781
I just wished that Padilla would stop spewing lies. First he said the dumpster at the apartment would be in the spotlight. Then he said Casey’s friends took her out of the states, then he “found” bones in the lake. Then he says there’s fingerprints on the duct tape. Why is he still even in the media? Why does Nancy Fake Grace have him on her show? Nothing he has said has come into fruitation. I feel like he’s the one harming the case.
LULU, thanks for that. 2:01. (Just finishing up on here).
So “If it was not for the press, it is unlikely that the mother, Casey Anthony would be sitting in jail today.”
BRAVO to the MEDIA! They can smell a RAT and WILL investigate! BRAVO!
Who gives a rats @$$ what Matt Albrecht writes? He’s a deushb@g!
I have to agree with BOTH of you. Yes, without the media attention she wouldn’t have been found. But I think what the young gentleman is getting at is that speculating on all the little unimportant details to locating the girl wasn’t necessary. We didn’t need to see explicit pics of the mother of the girl to find the body. We didn’t need to complain about people not reacting the way we think we would to find her. You both make great points but I think a lot of people are so mad that she did what she did if anything sounds like it halfway defends her or her treatment we get mad and respond with “YOU’RE WRONG!” We all need to be open minded and see everyones point of views but we also need to focus on the young life lost and not what her mother looked like servicing her gentleman callers.
While the media & public HAS obsessed about this case, I think we should not fail to question what role Florida’s Sunshine Law has played in feeding & encouraging the obsession.
The silly title and subject of the young aspiring journalism student is annoying, but, I remember being idealistic and pompous as a student. Your brain is flexing, pumping information like a weight lifter, and there’s a strange arrogance that accompanies the surge of energy shooting across the synapses.
But, even with acquiring knowledge, wisdom lags far behind, waiting to bloom after being fertilized by all the mishaps that are the result of our own stupidity, arrogance and ego.
To each his own. There are many who are disgusted by the missing persons cases featured on the 24/7 cable stations, but, in this world with so many choices for entertainment and self-fulfillment, no one is forcing these stories on them. If they don’t want to watch, let them boycott Nancy Grace, Greta Von Susteren, and Jane V-Mitchell.
The young lad needs to grasp one fundamental principle of our democracy, which has eluded him, along with his educators: FREE CHOICE!
These noisy moralists seem to forget that the greatest horrors against humanity usually come from dictators, and systems of government which forbids free will.
Criminal cases and high profile public interest in topics have always beguiled free-thinking societies. It’s part of our hard-wiring to care, and maybe it’s not a bad thing. It unites the human heart to transcend our own lives and care about strangers.
Nietzche, on the other hand, had an intolerance for too many things, including my Jewish ancestors. He was most adored by one of the worst human beings on the planet, and his minions: Adolph Hitler.
Maybe the young journalistic dictator, who condemns Nancy Grace, should chew on that.
Michele,
BEAUTIFUL!
Some of us feel we are either part of the problem,
or part of the solution!
I would rather be the latter, always.
You are new here? Welcome!
Meant to add …
Bad things happen when good men do nothing. Rushing here.
The Anthony family did everything they could to keep this in the minds of the public. Media had a part in it, only as far as the Anthony’s let them go.
The worst was the drama they threw out by parading in their front yard and hugging the initial protesters, blah, blah, blah. All they had to do was close the door, call the cops. Nope, they wanted the drama. If I were their neighbors, I would run them out of town.
Sad to read you going after a college student (who may care just as much) for doing exactly what you and your wife have done for week after week in print and on the blogger radio deal. It has worked well for you marketing wise, but that doesn’t make it any more appealing. Your outrage is misplaced as you are only upset because he expresses a different viewpoint than your own.
I keep hoping you will move on to a new topic with the radio show.
Simon, I realize this piece is an opinion, but if you want any credibility at all, you really need to learn the proper use of “were” as opposed to “was”.
Just use this little trick- think of “Fiddler on the Roof”- “if I were a wealthy man”… not “if I was a wealthy man”.
Simon, some of us agree with your position to continue to report on the Anthony case. We all got into it up to our armpits from the origination of the news. For those who are tiring of hearing it, there are many other places to go to in order to communicate with others. And to those who detest Nancy Grace and Jane Velez Mitchell, just simply watch something else, no problem. We are all aware of the volumne of missing and murdered children out there, we all weep for them. This blog is just a way to express our thoughts on the subject and maybe in that way, we can be more aware of what happens all around us. It is entirely possible that the Anthony case will set a precedent, make more awareness possible and keep this in the public eye. Simon, I very much admire the thoughts you and Jan express as well as those of all the regular contributors. I surely hope that a few ugly comments and the opinon of a college studen will not deter you from keeping us up on the happenings. And, for the student, we are not only keeping up with the latest on Caylee but we are also watching the latest case of Haleigh Cummings on the same site. If you are sick of it, go look at something else, maybe your computer games or Facebook or Myspace, I am sure there are others such as you there.
All of those who say ‘if you don’t like it, go read or watch something else.’ That is precisely the point that needs to be made to Simon, the author of this article. If you don’t like the college kid’s article, go read something else. If you don’t like what he has to say or you don’t like his viewpoint, then don’t read it. On the other hand, if Simon has every right to post a criticism of the college kid’s article, despite the fact that he chose to read it when there are plenty of other alternative, then don’t complain when a few commenters do the same thing about Simon’s article. What a bunch of self-centered hypocrits…
Some of us need a place to vent. This is what free speech is all about. Especially in the USA where you place so much value on your constitution and the rights that go along with it.
I know all about Nietzche, that Hitler loving scumbag, and frankly there are certain murder cases that need to be discussed from beginning to end. This is one of them. However, let the young man have his opinion. He deserves it, whether the piece is good or not. As long as he is willing to let us have our say, when we want to say it. I don’t get the privilige of watching HLN where I live, so I have to depend on Google and Blog Networks like this for my info. Words are just words…allow people to say them even though you don’t agree.
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