Day 9

Dick Nethercut has been missing for 17 days.
Blog: Day 9

I was going to send this blurb into some of the TV stations. What do you all think? Too angry?

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The one question that has occupied my mind since Dick Nethercut disappeared more than two weeks ago is why it seems that one missing person is more important than another. Annie Le, the Yale graduate student who disappeared just days before her wedding, received lead news coverage on a national level for more than a week, whereas Dick received sporadic local coverage for a few days and was one of the lead news stories for only a day or two after his car was found.

I know that some will argue that Annie Le was a young, bright woman at the beginning of her life, and Dick is an old man who has already lived a full life. But they are equally important to the people who loved them. It's a shame that the media did not see it that way.

The reason I am bringing this up is that I can't help but feel that the media may have hindered community efforts to find Dick sooner. If major local TV stations had picked up Dick's story from the first day he was missing, some of the residents, who saw his car early on but didn't know that he was missing, might have made the connection earlier, and every day counts for a missing man who does not start out with time on his side.