Greta, Rita, Nancy: “On-Air Opportunists”

Lost Remote’s Steve Safran says Time Magazine made a mistake with its annual award: “The 2005 Persons of the Year are The Media That Refused to Stop Covering Natalee Holloway. No natural disaster would stop them. No destruction of an entire city. No attempt at putting the story in perspective mattered. It was the missing Cute White Girl for more than 100 days of nightly coverage. Without Natalee, we might have had to cover the news.”

> The AP labels Fox News Channel’s Greta Van Susteren, MSNBC’s Rita Cosby, and CNN Headline News’ Nancy Grace “on-air opportunists” who exploited the Holloway story…

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