Why Gabby Petito?
Gabby Petito's family held a press conference this morning , thanking everyone across the country for their support . Someone, I think it was their lawyer also took a few questions about what the family thought about the suspect in her death, her boyfriend named Brian Laundrie being on the run. The lawyer said the FBI was working on it.
I went to Bing search to try and find out something about Gabby Petito and why she would become this person of such great national (news media) interest. Almost everything that came up in the first 200 or so entries was about her death , not her life and what she was famous for. So I saw a link to the wikipedia article on her death and I went to that thinking I could then find a link to the wikipedia page about her, which would show me why she was famous. Then, there is no wikipedia page "Gabby Petito".
She was this renowned You Tube and Instagram "influencer" , but she doesnt have a wikipedia page?
Evidently.
My understanding is she liked to travel around the country with her boyfriend, posting videos of her "van life". Thousands, tens of thousands, I dont know, millions? , evidently cared about her "van life".
This is known as talent in some places I guess. Make yourself known for being known.
There was a mother here in the Chicago area who complained because at the same time the world was in fear for Gabby Petitos fate her son had been missing for a month, and there seemed to be very little effort going on to find him. His body was found , after so many weeks in a local river. He was a college student and evidently a good young man.
I saw an article the other day that said there are 65,000 missing women of color in the United States. Which sounds about right because their cases have gotten about 1/65,000th of the attention Gabby Petito has gotten.
I dont get America sometimes.
I am with you on this.
I never watched her but watching a show about traveling around and camping sounds better than say watching the Super Bowl or a baseball, basketball game. I probably would have found her show boring too but it couldn't possibly be worse than televised sports.
This pos is dug in like a tick. They should just back off and he will resurface if he thinks the pressure is off. I don't believe that he will kill again so if he lets his guard down, he will be recognized and turned in.
I don't get it. Is that supposed to mean something? If she were so "renowned" then why are many of us only hearing of her after her death?
Reminds me of the song " Self Important Shithead "
She's a pretty white girl. That's why she got the national headlines and thousands of missing POCs get bupkus
Oh yes, the race lady told us it was because she was white!
I dont think the attention was entirely because she was white, but it didnt hurt. "celebrity" worship is also part of it, even though she was a celebrity very few people had ever heard of. I guess enough of the right people had heard of her.
It was a human interest story, one that was stranger than fiction.
That's why the story took off.
It was not remotely "stranger than fiction" . The big three networks have been telling stories like this on their non fiction "true crime" shows for the past thirty or forty years.
No? Who would have believed that Laundrie's parents could manipulate the police etc, the way they have?
Who could have believed that the police would be forced to treat the Laundrie family with Kit gloves? Most suspect that the Laundries got a lawyer right away. If this was an episode of Columbo, we wouldn't have believed it.
I disagree. There is nothing about this case that hasnt been seen many times before in one variation or another.
So true and so very many examples out there.
The only case it reminds me of was the Laci Peterson murder. Even that one had more logic to it.
I dont know. I think they had some kind of fight, he pushed her or hit her and she fell and hit her head or went down into a crevice or something and was killed. He then decided to drive home and maintain total silence . Then he ran away. I am not saying it is totally without interest in the true crime genre, but there is nothing unusual about it.
The public has been fascinated by it for weeks. He bought a lot of time because of his parents. It even has the element of rogue parents.
The perfect ending would be that he finally gets caught and the Laundrie family lawyer rounds up the O J Simpson Jury and they acquit Brian Laundrie!
That would be Ice Cream on the cake!
Reminds me of this
You are correct. There is absolutely nothing unusual about domestic violence in the US - including rape and murder.
When the media does highlight a case of domestic abuse, rape and/or murder, too many people in the US dismiss it as nothing unusual and turn their attention elsewhere.
I really doubt that most people want to address this issue in the US except to use it as a political tool and/or to race bait.
This is not a racial issue. This should be an every citizen in the US issue. Why isn't it? Oh, that's right, there is nothing unusual about domestic violence in the US.
Wasn't so much what Joy Reid said as how she said it. The woman showed very little tact or sympathy and derailed.
Why anyone?
It is decided by the number of clicks on social media. No clicks, no story.
The national media was late on this one. It went viral on the internet long before they even sniffed at it. I found out about it from a friend that works internet pages that post nothing but garbage stories and videos days before I saw it on the news.
As to why. Young, cute, female- hooked almost every straight guy out there. Douchebag boyfriend- hooked the douchebags, and those abused by douchebags. Both of them were off their meds- how many young people are on meds these days- just hooked them as well. Police got it wrong on which one was the abuser; and didn't consider it a toxic relationship or domestic abuse- hooked the anti cop crowd.
Now the story has a life of it's own. Grieving parents, and parents that aided their son in escaping. Now the search. The media won't let it go until the clicks and views go down. Then it will be relegated to updates only when something new is found and they think they can rekindle interest.
So as I understand it...
Why Gabby Petito? It provides a platform to discuss the thousands of others that go missing. Realistically, no Gabby Petito... no discussion.
Sorry if that offends, but the plain truth can hurt.
Nice try, but I dont think her case has led to much of a discussion about the other missing thousands.
Black kids getting killed doesn't generate much national attention either.
Fair enough. Outside of the past couple of weeks, where can I find your historical articles lamenting the plight of those thousands?
I am not a news generator. I am a commentator.
Again... fair enough. You are however, a prolific seeder. Prior to Gabby Petito, when was your last seed about missing people and when did any of your collection of news sites make mention of missing people?
Which goes back to my original statement. Without Gabby Petito, there would be zero/zilch discussion. Shameful, but true.
I dont completely disagree with you but I dont think this case has generated a whole lot of interest in other cases, but maybe im wrong
Still talking about this? I don’t get it. I don’t think I care to get it. Now we’re talking about talking about it. It’s a little silly.
Say, JR, didn’t you seed a story about this yesterday, also? And another one like 4 or 5 days ago? You might be part of the problem, ya know?
With the massive amount of LEO's and others actively searching, he will stay dug in like a tick. If they just all back off, he will let down his guard and resurface. Someone will recognize him and turn him in.
Assuming he is still within the US. He had a good head start- he could be heading the opposite direction of the illegals coming up from South America. Outside of heading the wrong direction it would be too hard to blend in.
Go deflect elsewhere.