The Contestant
One argument presented by Alarcon in his piece is that the media has resorted to sensationalized reporting and presenting, even if the private lives of the people involved in the news are trampled on already. The media has become an unforgiving monster that in fact apparently did not want to have anything to do with Ruth Thalia after she disappeared. The parents’ interviews and appeal suddenly were being rescheduled, and only when the mother of Ruth Thalia revealed that the missing girl was the one from the reality show, it was only then that the media began to provide ...
