Beyond Opinion

Now it is Lori Hacking. I know this is a distressing situation for her family and those concerned about her, but she is only one person. It certainly is a local, Salt Lake City story, but it is not a national story. The media, however, is trying to make it into one, just as they have done with Laci Peterson, giving her so much attention that it pushes aside more important news stories, and being inconsistent by ignoring April Greer of North Carolina, which is the same type of case. But now they have gone too far. This time their harping on Lori Hacking threatens computer security. The reason why is that hackers are a serious problem in the computer world. These people can take over your PC, get your sensitive information, and use it to cause all kinds of havoc. So it is important to know about how to deal with hackers and hacking. But Google and other search engine searches on "hacking" now will bring up a slew of stories about this strictly local story and will hamper obtaining information on computer hackers and hacking, by forcing people to wade through the Lori stuff. I therefore call upon the media to stop harping on Lori Hacking and restrict coverage of the story to the Salt Lake City area. If they don't, they threaten computer security.