More than three years after she was bashed and garroted, she still smiles from tabloids, book covers and TV screens. Joyce Carol Oates has called JonBenet Ramsey "the most famous little girl of our time," and we should be forgiven for being sick of her image.
But the worst thing about media saturation is that it can impart so few actual facts. Polls show that most Americans made up their minds quickly that John and/or Patsy Ramsey had killed their daughter. The Ramseys haven't quite entered the harsh terrain of the American mind where O.J. Simpson burns, but they have tarried...
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