And why the hell does she have her own 24-hour television channel? According to a Wikipedia article, she's a child who went missing sometime LAST YEAR, whose mother was indicted sometime LAST YEAR, and whose remains were discovered sometime LAST YEAR.
For months and months and months now, I haven't seen anything on CNN's Headline News that isn't about "Little Caylee." The world's in the midst of a catastrophic economic meltdown, and our country is fighting two wars abroad, but I can't find any information about that on HLN.
I can't wait to hear grown adult broadcasters code-switching between pompous legal jargon and baby talk about "poor, sweet Wittle Caywee." Quit trying to pull on heartstrings, you jackasses. Obviously, it goes without saying that the killing of a child is the most heinous of murders, and even more so when a parent is responsible. Our species recognizes this fact instinctively and viscerally, and we don't need a network dedicated to 'news' to remind us every waking moment.
CNN should start being honest with viewers by changing the channel's name (and its own name) to The Child Murders Network's Dead Babies Sideshow, because really, there's no news being broadcast here whatsoever. It's only "Little Caylee," every night. That is, until the trial is over. Then HLN's caring 'journalists' will be on to the next ratings-boosting tragedy involving another murdered child, and "Little Caylee's" name will never be mentioned again by the network that is so obsessed with milking her name at this moment.
It is gratuitous, distasteful, unethical in its profiteering, and non-stop. But CNN is only the dealer who traffics in this kind of dead-baby porn. It's the dead-baby junkies that watch this shite, and thus create the market for it, who really undermine my faith in humanity. They are sensationalizing the horrific death of a child here, people! It's reprehensible.
And here's what took my breath away... the only let-up in HLN's "Little Caylee Murderama" was a brief interlude in which Nancy Grace (the bloodsucking host of this travesty of news) displayed pictures of her own twins Lucy and John David (excuse me, Little Lucy and Little John David) doing adorable things, with sentimental music playing while the proud mom narrated the high jinks of her two little rascals. I was dumbstruck. While I imagine that Vampira Ms. Grace would defend her motivations as being those of a mother herself who wants to see that justice is done in the case of "Little Caylee," it came off as callous... a woman whose career appears to benefit indirectly from the continued perpetrations of gruesome crimes against other people's children showing off her own.
In addition to changing its name, I also think that CNN should commit to airing a one-hour "Remembering Little Caylee" memorial special on the anniversary of her death, every year until the child would probably have died of natural causes had she not been killed (let's say 2087). And if, in the year 2061 or 2079, annoyed viewers might ask "Who is Little Caylee, and why does she get a one-hour special every year," then you will have to tell them: "Little Caylee's tragic death was the most important news story of 2008 (and 2009). The world was a very different place before the events of her death. No child had ever been murdered before that, and none have ever been murdered since. What happened to her altered the course of human history on this planet. When you think of the year 2008, Little Caylee is the single most important historic event to remember. Nothing even remotely as significant happened that year." Otherwise, you'll have to tell them the truth... that your network devoted tens of thousands of hours of 'news' coverage to sensationalize the sad death of a child.
But even if Sweet Pickles were still alive in 2061 or 2079 or 2087 (I'm assuming that Ms. Grace, however, will be), he wouldn't be seeing any of the annual "Remembering Little Caylee" specials, because he's taking HLN off the "Favorites Channels" listing on his remote control. Right now. And forever.
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