Lazy Media with Enron "Suicide?"
After watching enough cable news this evening concerning the supposed suicide of a former Enron employee, I can't help but think the news media is asleep at the wheel.
Perhaps it was bordom, or the heat, but the news outlets ran wild with Chandra Levy and the whole Condit nonsense for months on end this past summer, with virtually nothing to go on but Condit's refusal to speak to the media. The circus spun round and round, with an endless parade of talking heads peeking out to shovel more vapid hypothesis like, "well, I don't know if Condit killed that girl, but..."
What's making me ticked is that the media, thus far anyway, has taken the death of former Enron Corp. vice chairman Clifford Baxter completely on face value. A suicide. A man, who left the company months ago, and easily had the most damning information against Enron, is found in his car, shot to death. And nobody is raising a red flag?
Perhaps he's just not sexy enough. Perhaps the Chandra story was titilating to the news outlets in some twisted "old geezer screwing around with a teenage intern" kind of way. Whatever it is, this death is just too bizarre, too scripted, too Hollywood for common sense. I'm astonished the news outlets aren't running wild with this.
Comments
There seems to be something "wonky" going on with your page. the first half of everything after the header is white...with the white poking out of the boundary of the main box area.
I'm on a Mac using IE5 if that helps.
Posted by: Paula at January 26, 2002 4:59 PM
I don't see anything going on (I'm using Mac IE5).
Great site!
Posted by: Brad at January 28, 2002 11:15 AM
commenting on the Baxter/Levy comparison - you're not alone in your suspicions - my first comment to my friend who was beside me when we paused in front of the newsstand was something to the extent of "Enron chairman found dead in 'apparent' suicide (quoting the paper's bold print) hm...the word 'apparent' says it all." truth will always be stranger than fiction, but when they resemble each other so uncannily...(recalling several movies that, amidst all the mafioso content, held the same plot as our national media now broadcasts).
but indeed... what do any of us know?
Posted by: Phoenix at January 29, 2002 8:19 AM
here's something for fun concerning this issue... hehe
Posted by: Dot at February 2, 2002 12:11 AM
