The husband of a missing Massachusetts mother has been arrested for allegedly misleading investigators, police officials said.
Brian Walshe, 47, entered a not guilty plea to the charge of misleading a police investigation at his arraignment in Quincy District Court on Monday. Judge Mark Coven imposed bail of $500,000 cash or $5 million surety bond and ordered Walshe to return to court on Feb. 9.
I'm not disputing the seriousness of the matter. Hubby is a criminal awaiting sentencing. He allegedly engaged in activities that look mightily suspicious.
But is some guy whacking his wife a national story? Then why not this one? Or this one? Or this one? Or this one?
The distinction is plain as day: If the victim in the case is a photogenic white woman, the national media will be all over it like fleas on a rat. If not, crickets.
I'm sure that the victims of the Idaho killer being attractive helped drive that story. Though I admit that it was pretty horrific, maybe if they were ugly, old, homeless people it would have gotten some play.
ReplyDeleteBut no where near as much.
The news media is more worried about click bait now unlike 100+ years ago when just the newspapers only had a few competitors in a given area. But if you read about Pulitzer and Hearst competing for sales it isn't new but there were less of them.
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