Caylee Anthony: Making Money From A Missing Child
CAYLEE Anthony is missing. Tabloid Baby, Anorak’s man in LA, hears a rumour that missing white chidlren make for good telly:
Word comes this afternoon that NBC News has paid $5,000 for an exclusive interview with Cindy Anthony, the mother of Casey Anthony, that woman in Florida who’s in jail on charges she murdered her daughter Caylee Anthony, who’s been missing for months.
Crime does pay. Who knew?
Paid for an interview?
Network news?
An NBC mouthpiece says:
“NBC News does not pay for interviews. NBC News paid a nominal licensing fee for photos, which is very common in the industry.”
But TB wonders:
Last month, it was reported that a “major media organization” helped pay Casey’s bail the first time she was in jail. An insider said that ABC News paid more than $200,000 to the alleged child killer to license images and video for a segment on 20/20 report. ABC wouldn’t confirm the amount but admitted they licensed footage from “rights holders.”
A child is missing. Dead maybe. And this..?
Be it Britney Spears or a murderer, network news operations pay for interviews. They cloak the payments with forked tongues, but they pay… and they don’t make the distinction, as would a good tabloid operation, whether a victim or criminal gets the money.
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Posted: 22nd, October 2008 | In: Media Comments (18) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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October 23rd, 2008 at 7:46 am
I am not a well person!!!
I cannot cope with thinking that I have been tricked by this fucking thread thingy fuck-about. Why can’t this thread come up first?
October 23rd, 2008 at 6:43 am
If anybody comes on here - please will you let me know on the other thread X
October 22nd, 2008 at 11:16 pm
BURNS MY BUTT! If they want to pay someone, offer the money to Tim Miller, of Texas Equasearch. He deserves it!
May they find Caylee and bring her home so she can be put to rest the right way.
October 22nd, 2008 at 9:20 pm
Ok.. did it ever occur to you that this may be costing them thousands of dollars in the first place to find Caylee. They could putting that money to good use anyway. I would give them the benifit of the doubt because its their only grandaughter! Come on now! Grow up! A little girl is missing and you’re having a hard time understanding that they might need to that money to put someone in a hotel to help find her. Did it occur to you that they may be in serious debt right now and that they could honestly use the money! Why dont we talk about the national search for a missing little girl and the fact that their daughter has been leing out her ass for the last 4 months! Lets not waste precious time steaming over 5000.00 when they have spent a couple hundred thousand on this case since the beginning trying to find her!
October 22nd, 2008 at 8:35 pm
OK I’ve got my off-shore enterprise set up, it’s called Whoosh Clunk Junior Inc, all i need to do is star merketing it, think I’ll start along the most popular holiday resorts in southern Europe, who’s for the Algarve? I’, going to have a nice little herd of hyenas to ward off invaders and absolutely NO sniffer dogs ad NO DNA merchants in sight. I was inclined to have a big media campaign to launch it to the wider masses starting in places like Dewsbury and Florida but on reflection I think it might be better to carry out a dicrete operation for discerning professionals, perhaps starting in the Midlands UK where ther appears to be a rich vein of opportunity. I shall offere a package deal including PR, photographic, legal and financial services for the customers (parents) with original strap lines like ‘no stone unturned’ and excellent accommodatin services for the secondary customers (children), guaranteed suitable for princes and princesses. The only difficulty I foresee is achieving a variety of different abduction themes so that the customers do no run too high a risk of being arrrested for being involved in their own child’s disappearance. But then so long as they get the story one right as per my instructions they shouold be fine. A few friends in high places wouldn’t come amiss though.
October 22nd, 2008 at 5:53 pm
And of course, the case hasn’t gone to trial yet.
October 22nd, 2008 at 5:31 pm
It’s amazing to me that any news organization would pay these [in my view] monsters so they can profit from the possible death of their granddaughter at the hands of the daughter they raised. I’m sure this ex-cop turned security guard (George) and nurse on disability (Cindy) may be thinking the disappearance of little Caylee is not such a bad thing after all, as all they have to do is go on TV, spew their nonsense, and make hundreds of thousands of dollars, and that’s before any million dollar book deals are signed (and believe me they will be signed). There needs to be some sort of law put on the books that NO ONE can profit from a crime, not the alleged perpetrator or any one else. That will assure that there is no motivation to commit the crime or to obstruct justice. If I ever see another crazy Anthony family member, or any other person, giving a paid interview regarding the murder of another person, I for one will turn it off and then start writing my letters of disapproval and boycott to every news media outlet, and their advertisers, that allowed such an outrage to occur.
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Lisa, please bear in mind that Anorak is hosted in the UK and that it is subject to the laws of this country on defamation. I have therefore edited your post.
October 22nd, 2008 at 3:17 pm
Sadly, a cyber security awareness month is going to do nothing to help children like Caylee; perhaps if people stopped going for ‘flavour of the month’ initiatives, and got back to practical questions as to how we can best help endangered children, those children would be a great deal better off.
It is never wise to give officialdom the chance to look as if they are doing something, when we want them to actually do something…
October 22nd, 2008 at 2:53 pm
OCTOBER IS NATIONAL CYBER SECURITY AWARENESS MONTH
http://www.webwisekids.org/index.asp
October 22nd, 2008 at 2:08 pm
very well thought about ! wish you well in your venture , just make sure the children are treated well and never left alone , oh and do return them after suitable period such as when you have accrued ludicrously large sums of money
October 22nd, 2008 at 2:05 pm
I’m on my way to register my company name but I won’t set it up as a charity even though it is for a very worthy cause, becasue setting it up that way would make the operation subject to a lot of interfering scrutiny fromt the charity commissioner. Might register it off shore when I think about it. bbl lol
October 22nd, 2008 at 1:54 pm
People in this world thrive on another’s tragedy! Newspapers can’t print enough editions when a headline story carried is of a tragedy. Not surprising a major TV network gave her money for an exclusive - to carry that story with an exclusive will send their ratings through the ceiling.
Thus, , newspapers, magazines, major TV networks pay for an exclusive on another’s tragedy. However, the public buy the newspapers, magazines, pay cable costs to watch TV networks - they too willing pay to watch another’s tragedy.
October 22nd, 2008 at 1:47 pm
nowyou have ruined it , you have told everyone and they will allbe on bandwagon , best register asap and get patent etc
October 22nd, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Nonsense, think positive. This is an enterprise opportunity - set up a business to disappear people’s kids, assist them with the PR, fund raising, legal fees, etc, but it could be an ethical enterprise, arranging exceptionally good child care of the ‘treated like a princess’ type and after a suitable interval once sufficient funds have been generated and the parents achieved a low profiel the child could be ‘found’, thos egeneratign further ‘tell us your story’ fund raising opportunities. I’m for it, let’s go…
October 22nd, 2008 at 1:19 pm
David , nice to see that there are actually normal people out there
October 22nd, 2008 at 1:12 pm
I agree completely doris
October 22nd, 2008 at 1:11 pm
This is now fast becoming a very good recession beating way of making money and as far as i can see it is very dangerous as sending wrong message out to all unscrupulous people who may wish to leave their kids ,” lose your kid and get paid enough to pay your mortgage or no need to work again , yeah free for all , all kinds of idiots will GIVE you money for the story of the loss of your child ” effing mental
October 22nd, 2008 at 12:36 pm
OK, I’ll say the obvious; that is sickening.
On the other hand America is the Home of the Free, so maybe ABC News was just trying to uphold the Constitution…