Then an official announces that the investigation will take six to nine months. Then follow the aviation experts who talk ad nauseam about what might have happened or could have happened even though they don't know what happened.īreak for the news that there has been a ping from an emergency beacon heard somewhere for some reason. That's one tough way to make a living.įor variety, throw in the talking heads who debate whether there is a Kennedy curse, or whether the Kennedys are simply reckless. Sunday, one poor soul was reduced to explaining that it's easier to find a plane when the water is clear. So these poor reporters spent the day announcing the rumor of a luggage tag being found, then the confirmation by a source that the tag existed, then photos of the luggage tag. You would have expected CNN to stay with the story all day, but the other networks joined in Saturday. They call it a breaking story, but Saturday it was not a breaking story, but a huge question mark that no one could answer. When the networks aren't showing footage of Kennedy, they'll be showing beaches, water, boats in water, helicopters over water. That photo of John-John that made your throat swell - if you watch the so-called news, you'll see it a hundred times before the week is out. You ache for Caroline Kennedy, 41, who lost both her parents and her only brother, as well as Rory Kennedy, who herself has lost two brothers and whose wedding was postponed. You start out feeling sorry for John and Carolyn Kennedy and Lauren Bessette. Just watch as the news business turns this sad story into a circus, an endless circus. Larry King played a tape from a show in which Kennedy recalled his first memory, sliding his dog down the White House slide. Aghast, his uncle chided young John that Kennedys don't cry. Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin told the story of how young John was skiing with his uncle. Then those close to the missing told their stories to the camera. He grew better looking ever year, and trumped his appeal by marrying a wife as dazzling and eye-catching as he. There were shots of his shockingly handsome face, the strong jaw, the sly grin, his elegant and powerful frame. The boy in short pants who gave that brave, heart- rending salute at his father's burial might be dead himself. There was no word as to whether he, his wife Carolyn or sister- in-law Lauren Bessette were alive. ON SATURDAY MORNING came the sad, bitter news.
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