JonBenet Arrest: Morning Notes

By Brian 

> Update: 10:55am: Greta Van Susteren had John Karr’s brother Nate and Patsy Ramsey’s sister On The Record last night…

> For GMA, Chris Cuomo was in Boulder, Colorado and Mark Litke was in Bangkok, Thailand. For Today, Michelle Kosinski was in Atlanta and James Hattori was in Boulder…

> The Early Show labeled the arrest as “breaking news,” 14 hours after the news broke…

> During the 3am hour, “the press conference in Thailand about the arrest of John Karr was carried live by FNC, MSNBC and CNN (via CNNI),” an e-mailer notes. Update: 11am: HuffPost has details…

> An e-mailer asks: “For everyone who is critiicizing MSNBC for its coverage of the JonBenet arrest, you don’t think Fox or CNN would have done the same if an arrest had been made in the Natalee Holloway case? Come on! This is a decade long case that has been the topic of discussion on many shows…”

> The Toronto Star looks back: “It was the Ramseys’ great misfortune that both Fox and MSNBC had been born in the wake of the last ‘true crime’ media feeding frenzy, the mother of all cable coverage marathons, the O.J. Simpson case, and they were determined to cash in on JonBenet’s murder…”

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