Monday, June 25, 2007

CSI

Maybe this only happens on my TV, but whenever there is a murder reported on one news channel, the same murder gets reported numerous times on every other news channel. What are the odds? Thank you for asking.

If you do a little research, you will find that there are typically 16,000 or so murders per year in the US. That means there are 44 murders on the average day. The one murder that gets all of the news coverage usually dominates the media for about a week (unless the killer is a Heisman trophy winner). Meanwhile, 306 other non-newsworthy people will have been killed. That is weird.

What about the story about a little kid that got abducted? Thank you for asking.

Unbelievably, there are 800,000 child abductions in the US per year (2,200 per day). Most of those involve family members in custody battles. However, there are still 58,000 non-family abductions in the US per year. That is about 160 per day. And yet, my TV shows me the same abduction over and over again for a week.

That is curious.

1 comment:

Sven said...

Don't you mean "alleged" killer? Afterall, the glove didn't fit.