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.
with general mcchrystal because there s a lot of opposition from very powerful people in washington. the only way that he had to ensure to silence the critics and really to move on. this reassured the troops are, this reassured the commanders. this reassured people who were in favor that the afghans, the allies. that s why people are calling it brilliant, maybe because it was brilliant. and petraeus, much more press savvy than the man he s succeeding. lara logan, thanks for coming in. we appreciate it. coming up in the second half of the reliable sources. with natalee holloway back in the limelight, why chris cuomo flew to aruba. and eliot spitzer s resurrection from a call girl scandal lands him a primetime spot on cnn. cnn s president will respond. and the enquirer s executative editor on why he
he comes from a political family. chris cuomo has covered all kinds of stories, including the massive earthquake in haiti. he was once crazy enough to go bungy jumping off the roof of an atlantic city casino. he was in aruba to interview the ex-girlfriend of joran van der sloot, the man suspected in one of the biggest tabloid stories of the decade. the disappear achbs natalee holloway. melody also says she s seen him change from a romantic teenager to a compulsive liar. today an accused monster. so what happened to the boy she once loved? but are such crime stories worth all the attention that television lavishes on them? i sat down with abc s chief legal correspondent this week in new york. chris cuomo, welcome. thank you. last week, 20/20 aired an exclusive interview you did from aruba with the ex-girlfriend of joran van der sloot, the suspect in the natalee holloway case and a murder in peru. why is that worth your time? why is that such a big media