The discovery yesterday of Chandra Levy's remains marked the return of media excess. Howard Kurtz quotes Robert Lichter of the Center for Media and Public Affairs, who aptly summed up the situation. "9-11 showed that TV news has the capacity to rise to the occasion, but it still has the capacity to sink to any occasion. This poor girl is never going to rest in peace until the media decide there's no more audience they can use her to bring. There is no level of ghoulishness too embarrassing for the tabloid instincts of TV news."
The discovery yesterday of Chandra
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