<p>So apparently, a suspect in the 10-year-old case has been arrested. </p>
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Authorities have made an arrest in the JonBenet Ramsey case, law enforcement sources told CNN on Wednesday.</p>
<p>An investigator with the Boulder County, Colorado, District Attorney's office traveled to Bangkok, Thailand, and is bringing a suspect back to the United States, CNN's Denver affiliate KUSA reported.</p>
<p>The suspect was arrested Wednesday morning and has confessed to certain elements of the crime that are unknown to the general public, KUSA reported....</p>
<p>JonBenet's beaten and strangled body was found in the basement of the family home in Boulder, Colorado, the day after Christmas in 1996.</p>
<p>A grand jury investigation into the death of the child beauty pageant winner ended without charges in 1999.-CNN
<p>really...who cares? i mean, it's just some little girl that was murdered 10 years ago. i mean, sure it's great and all they found a suspect and are trying to solve it, as the authorites should for every case, but why make a big deal about it? there are many more interesting and important stories to use news coverage on.</p>
<p>What makes her different from all the other little kids who were murdered? She was pangeants and stuff like that. Tragedy, yes, but I don't think this should be plastered all over the news more than any other story of this nature.</p>
<p>I think part of the reason this is a big deal is because the victim's father was a suspect, and since a murderer was never found, the possibility that he was the killer lingered. If the new accused is truly guilty, it completely exhonorates the father, and that is a big deal.</p>
<p>Same with Natalee Holloway. How many missing children are there in the United States? Why does one (a white pretty girl) get all the attention in her case? The media is a gravely flawed institutio in the United States.</p>
<p>I'm very sorry for Jonbenet and her family. However, I also am sick of the fact that the media focus on beautiful white women and children -- perferably affulent ones at that -- when it comes to these kind of situations.</p>
<p>Her apparent murderer's being caught is not worth a CNN bulletin or front page coverage.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, there are many people who are killed in this country, and all are worthy of attention including having their killers aggressively pursued.</p>
<p>^^As I do dislike the fact that the media focuses predominantly on white women and children, I feel there are many reasons as to why that is and not just a media/cultural bias.</p>
<p>In a predominantly black community in Phoenix a couple years back, a childl, similar to Jonbenet's situation, was murdered but unlike Jonbenet, the neighbors of the community could have cared less. The parents didn't make a largescale situation of it and didn't really ask for help in searching for the murderer, didn't beg their community to help. In Natalee and JonBenet's case, the family actively got their entire network of friends and family associations and community strangers involved to help search. </p>
<p>JonBenet's murder case being closed or near close deserves a headline bulletin on CNN as it was in a peaceful community and the murder not only made the parents and the brother prime suspects but created uproar in Colorado among friends and strangers.</p>
<p>^so. there are a ton of murderes in my city of women and the family's are on the local new pleading for help, but it's never taken to the national new b/c they are poor hispanics. so the family members were suspects. OH MY GOD!!!</p>
<p>and of course friends are going to be outraged. they're friends. and strangers only care because they constant new coverage gave them no choice. and rich people have more power and get scared more easily i guess.</p>
<p>"The parents didn't make a largescale situation of it and didn't really ask for help in searching for the murderer, didn't beg their community to help."</p>
<p>Probably because they had no idea how to do so. People who know how to manipulate the media tend to be wealthy, educated and connected, having neighbors and friends who have jobs such as being executives at media companies or who are in the public relations field. Such people also tend to make good sound bites because they are articulate, attractive, etc.</p>
<p>Most people of color and most nonaffluent people aren't in that position. I'm sure that their friends and family care about their loss, but those people aren't able to reach out to media connections the way wealthy people can do.</p>
<p>There's a missing woman case in my own community that has gotten very little coverage nationally. The woman was lower middle class, black, nothing that would put her on the front page of national newspapers. I met one of her coworkers, very nice, very concerned about her friend, but not exactly in a position to Fox News or the New York Times to cover the story.</p>
<p>And have you ever noticed that the missing/murdered women and kids who get major news coverage tend to be gorgeous or amazingly winsome? If JonBenet has been overweight, pimply and poor, she wouldn't have gotten the press coverage that she did.</p>
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In a predominantly black community in Phoenix a couple years back, a childl, similar to Jonbenet's situation, was murdered but unlike Jonbenet, the neighbors of the community could have cared less. The parents didn't make a largescale situation of it and didn't really ask for help in searching for the murderer, didn't beg their community to help. In Natalee and JonBenet's case, the family actively got their entire network of friends and family associations and community strangers involved to help search.
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<p>So I guess minority families just don't care as much about their children. Okay.</p>
<p>On a related note, last year, there was a little Chinese girl who went missing in Toronto, and there was a helluva lot of news surrounding that.</p>
<p>I agree that the media focuses too much on rich/beautiful/white "damsels in distress." HOWEVER, the Jonbenet case actually deserves most of the hype it gets. I watched a TV special on it, and it's absolutely the WEIRDEST murder mystery I've ever heard of. That's a significant statement, because I watch a lot of Court TV.</p>
<p>The dude they arrested looks like an alien, by the way. He is seriously creepy.</p>
<p>This is a waste of TV time. Again, we need somthing to distract us from our own hell ( aka, the society we live in). This is filling the void. Terry Schivo, now this, pahlez.</p>
<p>Have we really sunk that low? No one has heard of this girl. Suddenly, the war in Lebnon is in a cease fire. Bu thank god those terrorists almost attacked us, or else we would be sitting around , realizing just how bad our world really is. </p>
<p>News is created. It is used to blind us. It is used to take up all the media space. We are uninformed of the stuff that matters beacsue we do not know what matters. If every station is posting the same story, we would percive it as important. Who knows what the governmetn is doing right now ( at the mometn, its unlawfully spying one "suspected terrorists"- aka muslims). </p>
<p>This doesnt matter, and it never will. Nothing matters. No one will remember this ( sans the girls family). In two years no one will remember hezbullah, no one will remember the border patrol BS.</p>