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Lori Hacking's brother is on Larry King Live. He is so heartbroken. :(

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Originally posted by swissmiss04
I just saw on Salon.com that Mark Hacking just confessed to her murder. Said he stabbed her to death w/ a knife and then dumped her in a garbage bin.

This is so sad.

Don't want to sound insensative again, but why should anyone who doesn't personally know these folks really care? If it were not in the media, you wouldn't care. So you care because it is?

There are many sadder and more violent situations that happen every single day. The media does a good job of bringing attention to the fact that these things tend to happen. But misses the boat on saying how unfortunately common these types of things are.

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Originally posted by ktsnake
Don't want to sound insensative again, but why should anyone who doesn't personally know these folks really care? If it were not in the media, you wouldn't care. So you care because it is?

There are many sadder and more violent situations that happen every single day. The media does a good job of bringing attention to the fact that these things tend to happen. But misses the boat on saying how unfortunately common these types of things are.

Why does it matter if some people care about this and it makes them feel sad.
What would you say if people decided to stop caring. What would you say if some one came said on here "oh another soldier was murder today. Well I didn't know him, so who cares?" you'd think that person was an insensitive jerk.
Yeah, so they express their sadness for something they hear about. Why is that a problem. Would you prefer a million threads everyday about the starving children in Ethiopia, or all the people who are dying of AIDS? So that we can express our sadness for all the sad things that are happening in the world.

A member of GC could come on here tomorrow and say that one of their parents died (and it's happened), you might not now the person, but wouldn't you sympathize with their loss.

I just fail to understand why this is a problem for that people are expressing their sadness for one event and not another?

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Originally posted by Lady Pi Phi
Why does it matter if some people care about this and it makes them feel sad.
What would you say if people decided to stop caring. What would you say if some one came said on here "oh another soldier was murder today. Well I didn't know him, so who cares?" you'd think that person was an insensitive jerk.
Yeah, so they express their sadness for something they hear about. Why is that a problem. Would you prefer a million threads everyday about the starving children in Ethiopia, or all the people who are dying of AIDS? So that we can express our sadness for all the sad things that are happening in the world.

A member of GC could come on here tomorrow and say that one of their parents died (and it's happened), you might not now the person, but wouldn't you sympathize with their loss.

I just fail to understand why this is a problem for that people are expressing their sadness for one event and not another?

It's not that I don't regret the loss of the individual. I just think that the media acting in its own best interest sensationalizes these things rather than drawing attention to the larger problem.

Take your example of a young person dying in Iraq. Okay, let's expand and look at what they were doing, why they were there, etc. Let's not just read that 6 more soldiers died today.

My beef is with how the news is presented -- like Laci or whoever this was are the only ones that this sort of thing happens to.

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Originally posted by ktsnake
It's not that I don't regret the loss of the individual. I just think that the media acting in its own best interest sensationalizes these things rather than drawing attention to the larger problem.

Take your example of a young person dying in Iraq. Okay, let's expand and look at what they were doing, why they were there, etc. Let's not just read that 6 more soldiers died today.

My beef is with how the news is presented -- like Laci or whoever this was are the only ones that this sort of thing happens to.

The thing with the media is they only print what sells. They're only going to wite about if it has some interesting twist, like the husband running around a hotel room naked, or lying about getting into medical school.

If it doesn't have some kind of twist/weird event, then it's not interesting and it's just another case of spousal abuse gone too far, and might only get a little blurb in the back of the paper. It's about what sells.

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Originally posted by ktsnake
There are many sadder and more violent situations that happen every single day. The media does a good job of bringing attention to the fact that these things tend to happen. But misses the boat on saying how unfortunately common these types of things are.

And you think I am not saddened by these other sadder and more violent situations?

Yes, the media puts out what sells. It also doesn't do a very good job of expressing how common this really is. It brings things like this to light so that we, the everyday people, can be informed and hopefully take measures to prevent/stop things like this from happening.

update again, after 2months

They found her remains in a dump in Utah. From the garbage found immediately next to her remains, it appears that Hacking murdered her and then dumped her in the household garbage.

Sick.