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April Greer vs Laci Peterson

A young late-pregnant woman disappears. It is a long period of time, a month or more, and no one has seen her. Finally she is found, and her significant other is charged with murder. It is unfortunate when something like this happens; it transfixes the entire metropolitan area when something like this happen. But should it reach national news? I say no. There are hundreds of murders in the USA every year, and to report each on national news would mean that nothing else would get reported. So I feel that these stories should remain local stories.

I have heard of two such instances recently. One was in California, the case of Laci Peterson. The other was in North Carolina, the case of April Greer. Just about everyone in the US has heard of Laci Peterson. Hardly anyone has heard of April Greer. To me the difference is solely due to media hype. The media saw fit to escalate the Laci Peterson story to national proportions, but not the April Greer story, although much the same thing happened in both instances. To me this is a form of deception. The media should report equal cases equally, and this means keeping both April Greer and Laci Peterson as local cases. Laci should never have entered our national news screens.