This is exactly why I HATE news reports anymore. They do not tell you a damn thing.
When they first announced that the remains had been found, there was immediate speculation by the media that it was Chandra Levy. There was no real evidence of this, just the media wanting it to be so. From what I understand, there is also a serial killer working in this area for the last couple of months, so there was no guarantee that it was Chandra Levy, and not some other victim. No news reports that I read or saw or heard say anything about the potential for it to be somebody else. Officials, when interviewed, were very careful, as they should have been, to state that they were not speculating on whose remains they were until they knew more. So, at this point, the only people saying that it was Chandra are the media hype-meisters that WANT it to be her, because it looks good for the story.
Cut to this article. What do you see missing from the information presented here. Go ahead- read it again if you missed it- I'll wait.
Nowhere in this article does it state how the remains were identified. So the reader is left to assume whatever he might assume about what tipped off the official that it was Chandra Levy. I have the idea that it might not be Chandra Levy, and this 'official' either does not exist, or is leaking information that he does not have. I am not normally a conspiracy theory kind of guy. I tend to believe their is less to some things than other might believe. Human nature is not as complex as some people would like it to be. But this is ringing bells. And I am probably wrong. It most likely is Chandra Levy. But then why not tell how the remains were identified? Why not identify the official making the statement? If that information was available to the Post, why is it not in the article?
The important thing here is I am not being told what I need to know in order to make an informed decision about the veracity of the statements being made. And that is what I hate about the press/news media - you are only told what they think you need to know and are just supposed to trust them that what they say is true. And you cannot do that this blindly. There has to be more accountablility from the media, and they have to stop assuming that we are so stupid.
When they first announced that the remains had been found, there was immediate speculation by the media that it was Chandra Levy. There was no real evidence of this, just the media wanting it to be so. From what I understand, there is also a serial killer working in this area for the last couple of months, so there was no guarantee that it was Chandra Levy, and not some other victim. No news reports that I read or saw or heard say anything about the potential for it to be somebody else. Officials, when interviewed, were very careful, as they should have been, to state that they were not speculating on whose remains they were until they knew more. So, at this point, the only people saying that it was Chandra are the media hype-meisters that WANT it to be her, because it looks good for the story.
Cut to this article. What do you see missing from the information presented here. Go ahead- read it again if you missed it- I'll wait.
Nowhere in this article does it state how the remains were identified. So the reader is left to assume whatever he might assume about what tipped off the official that it was Chandra Levy. I have the idea that it might not be Chandra Levy, and this 'official' either does not exist, or is leaking information that he does not have. I am not normally a conspiracy theory kind of guy. I tend to believe their is less to some things than other might believe. Human nature is not as complex as some people would like it to be. But this is ringing bells. And I am probably wrong. It most likely is Chandra Levy. But then why not tell how the remains were identified? Why not identify the official making the statement? If that information was available to the Post, why is it not in the article?
The important thing here is I am not being told what I need to know in order to make an informed decision about the veracity of the statements being made. And that is what I hate about the press/news media - you are only told what they think you need to know and are just supposed to trust them that what they say is true. And you cannot do that this blindly. There has to be more accountablility from the media, and they have to stop assuming that we are so stupid.
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