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10-18-2011 KANSAS CITY MEDIA: IGNORE NATIONAL MEDIA WHORES It's downright embarrassing watching the Kansas City news media cover "live" another press conference on the front lawn involving the Irwin "family" and their missing 11-month-old baby. More than a week ago it was announced that the family would only deal with national media outlets. As far as it was concerned, the KC media could pick up scraps from national interviews. And the local media has obliged. Last week a "private investigator" calling himself "Wild Bill" Stanton rolled into town from New York and said he was here to assist with the investigation of missing Lisa Irwin. Sounding like something from the cast of the "Soprano's," Wild Bill spent a few days holding press conferences discussing his favorite topic: himself. After accomplishing absolutely nothing during his brief sojourn to Kansas City, Stanton announced he was leaving the scene (10/17) and turning it over to fellow New York superstar attorney Joe Tacopina, who also could have been a Soprano's cast member. Tacopina immediately called a press conference to discuss his favorite topic: himself. He bobbed and weaved away from any real questions from the local news media which covered his arrival "live." Tacopina basically said the parents were innocent (go figure) and that they would no longer do media interviews. The mother had done some national interviews that helped dig her into a whole so large that there seemingly was no longer a need for a New York investigator, but rather it was time to bring in a slick New York lawyer. "I believe he believes himself when he says he is only in Kansas City to help," wrote Kansas City Star columnist Mary Sanchez about Tacopina. Last week she wrote basically the same column about Wild Bill. "But it’s not these parents he is assisting. And it most certainly isn’t Baby Lisa." Maybe it is time that the KC media pledges not to simply cover what some in the media are referring to news conferences hosted by New Yorkers in town for some face time, and instead focus on information provided by legitimate sources such as the police department. Listening to a $750 an hour attorney who is likely being paid in camera time will do nothing to help solve this case.
10-19-2011
RESEMBLES ANTHONY CASE "Is it just me or does this case eerily resemble the Casey Anthony case? I think the mother hid the body so well that it will decompose completely, hence no CSI-like evidence to convict. Casey Anthony taught everyone how to get away with murder."
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