Am I the only one who thinks this story is weird? ABC has announced that Elizabeth Smart will join ABC as a commentator on missing person and child abduction cases. Clearly, Smart has unique insights to these matters – having been abducted, raped and abused herself for nine months at age 14. And she seems to have recovered amazingly from that horrific experience.
Elizabeth Smart deserves to have a wonderful life – and becoming a television commentator certainly qualifies as a plum job in the eyes of many people.
But the act of hiring an abduction commentator, and the decision to trade on Smart's fame in this respect, is a little creepy. And the news alone is sure to perpetuate public misconceptions about the extent of the child abduction problem.
This is truly news of the absurd.
Can you spell tabloid TV with only three letters? It is as easy as ….
PQED, a philosophy blog, did a piece on this with a different take. They mention you in passing:
http://philosophyinpubliclife.blogspot.com/2011/07/what-is-difference-between-experience.html