This is a tough one. Another story, another confession about Natalee Holloway by Joran van der Sloot. The link goes to Fox News, and it's a lengthy interview that will take you a good while to get through.
I know, you may disregard the whole thing as being more worthy of Entertainment Tonight than a serious, hard-hitting, hold-no-punches, win-one-for-the-Gipper political blog such as this. However, remember that Alabama Gov. Bob Riley actually called for a boycott of Aruba because of the handling of the investigation into her disappearance.
It remains newsworthy, and Joran stepping up to now claim he sold Holloway into slavery continues the endless cycle of this sad tale.
But is it newsworthy? News consumers are growing increasingly testy about their media these days, and show no fear in calling out what they deem as biased or poor reporting or just plain wondering why a certain story made it into the paper or online.
And does Joran's claim after the interview that the whole thing was a huge lie make any difference in its newsworthiness?
I mean, really, what's he angling for? A book deal?
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