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story? it s a good question, howard. in truth, journalistically, you can dismiss a lot of these tabloid stories. there s such keen audience interest and there s something about crime, especially homicide investigations, that lends themselves to american curiosity. you have two sides. you have a narrative arc that goes up and down. consequences. you have the worst of fates. death. and they do very well. people are interested in them. and i think that what i rely on in telling those stories is that generally, there is something to tease out of this otherwise tantalizing narrative. who did what? the mystery. that is worth review. and i see the story with van der sloot as a window into a criminal investigation. you say this audience interest. it was completely created by television. no one had ever heard of natalee holloway. she disappears in aruba. and it becomes this parade of what i call missing white women. usually young, usually pretty.

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