Enough Gabby Talk

The body of a young white woman who had been missing was discovered in a wooded area. That's not too unusual since there were at least four black women and girls murdered per day in the United States in 2020, according to statistics released by the FBI last week, a sharp increase compared with the year before.

But for some reason this particular murder of this particular girl has become big news, with newspaper and magazine stories written daily and constant TV coverage of "the details" night and day. Why is that? 

She was pretty, she was blonde and her boyfriend did it. Sounds like a made-for-TV movie on Lifetime, right? And everyone knows those are quite popular. So, chasing ratings, the executives at various news organizations have continued to plug the Gabby Petito murder, milking it for all it's worth. 

This is insulting to the families of every other murder victim. The Petito Family should shut it down. Instead they have started a GoFundMe page and some sort of memorial fund to Gabby so this will "never happen again." Yeah, right, like they can stop human nature.

Turn the page already.