I heard a news story today while on my shift at WOI. It involved a kidnapped girl 18 years ago who was discovered when her one of her abductors was found on Berkley campus "acting suspicious" Appearently, she'd been held captive since the age of 11 by a husband and wife.
For those who don't know, WOI is an affiliate station for Iowa Public Radio, a branch of National Public Radio, as you may have guessed. During my shift, we broad cast Morning Edition. They only gave 30 seconds to the story because it's highly personal and has little effect on people outside the region (southern California). Still, I was curious to know more about the circumstances of the case. Well, I did and I won't waste time re-reporting them here. Rather, I'll tell you, dear readers, about some curious anomolies that came up in my research.
First, A google search of "kidnapped 18 years" brought the top hit from ABC news online, here. A pretty standard article, right? Well, I kinda wanted to know more details about the arrest - ABC left me puzzled. I altered my search and found this, and this. If you don't want to read the articles, I'll do my best to summerize. Basicly, not much difference or added information between them. However, did notice that both ABC and FOX omitted the details of the kidnapper, Phillip Garrido's religiosity and seeming mental instability.
Clearly, I needed the original AP (Associated Press) article. Which was surprisingly hard to find. If you're interested it is here. For shits and giggles I looked at the story featured at Huffington Post online. Since I first looked, some, including the Huffington have updated their coverage of the whole incident.
I'm running short on time (I'm late for class) but what really interested me was the different treatment of this story by this news outlets. Notably, in Fox's repost of the story, a line questioning public security of parolees was added, "Garrido was on lifetime parole and his arrest raises questions about how closely parolees are monitored." and the New York Post went on to discuss other long-time kidnapping victims found years later.
I'll return late with some more of my thoughts.
thanks for reading!
For those who don't know, WOI is an affiliate station for Iowa Public Radio, a branch of National Public Radio, as you may have guessed. During my shift, we broad cast Morning Edition. They only gave 30 seconds to the story because it's highly personal and has little effect on people outside the region (southern California). Still, I was curious to know more about the circumstances of the case. Well, I did and I won't waste time re-reporting them here. Rather, I'll tell you, dear readers, about some curious anomolies that came up in my research.
First, A google search of "kidnapped 18 years" brought the top hit from ABC news online, here. A pretty standard article, right? Well, I kinda wanted to know more details about the arrest - ABC left me puzzled. I altered my search and found this, and this. If you don't want to read the articles, I'll do my best to summerize. Basicly, not much difference or added information between them. However, did notice that both ABC and FOX omitted the details of the kidnapper, Phillip Garrido's religiosity and seeming mental instability.
Clearly, I needed the original AP (Associated Press) article. Which was surprisingly hard to find. If you're interested it is here. For shits and giggles I looked at the story featured at Huffington Post online. Since I first looked, some, including the Huffington have updated their coverage of the whole incident.
I'm running short on time (I'm late for class) but what really interested me was the different treatment of this story by this news outlets. Notably, in Fox's repost of the story, a line questioning public security of parolees was added, "Garrido was on lifetime parole and his arrest raises questions about how closely parolees are monitored." and the New York Post went on to discuss other long-time kidnapping victims found years later.
I'll return late with some more of my thoughts.
thanks for reading!
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