This is no big issue -- I just don't get it:
Police said Sunday that an “America's Most Wanted” television show segment about a missing Indiana University student generated numerous tips, but so far none of them have led to major breakthroughs.
Lauren Spierer was last seen walking home alone from a friend's apartment early June 3, a few hours after she left a popular Bloomington bar. The case of the missing 20-year-old student from Greenburgh, N.Y., was featured Saturday on “America's Most Wanted.”
Isn't the value of a show like AMW in getting tips that help spot people -- either the missing or fugitives -- who might be anywhere in the country? The Lauren Spierer story is all local, with any witnesses and "persons of interest" still in the Bloomington area. What's the point of having nationwide exposure? Are people more likely to call in with a tip just because the whole incident has now become famours?
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Don't worry. If the missing person is pretty and blond, Nancy Grace will solve the case.
AMW isn't public service broadcasting. They're a commercial success.
Dr. Samuel Johnson got it right when he wrote ""No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money," and the folks at 20th Century Fox Television are no blockheads. With a lot of viewers and a lot of advertisers, AMW butters their bread.
Appears the "butter" is getting thin on the bread.
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/05/16/americas-most-wanted-canceled-after-23-years-on-air/
I think they are trying to break the person down who did this crime psychologically by flooding the senses with posters, local newscasts, national news, radio news and anything else they can think of....
If Adam Walsh had responsible parents, he wouldn't have been turned loose in Sears without any supervision, and wouldn't have died. Rewarding the Walsh family for their irresponsibility by making John Walsh rich and famous? I'd have never had such bad taste as to put that show on the air in the first place.