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Missing, But Seen Everywhere

Recently a fifteen year old girl named Abigail Hernandez has gone missing from her North Conway home in New Hampshire. Her name is now known around the world, not for a great reason in any way, but it's still known around the world. This teenage girl's story has affected so many people, but she is not the only teen to have gone missing before, why has hers? The answer is the media, the media took this story and blew it up, focused on certain (attention grabbing) facts of the case, and in the process affected many people across the world and in New Hampshire. As soon as the terrible news of the missing girl hit, the media was all over it. You heard people everywhere talking about it, debating on if she ran away or was taken, and listening to the parents sympathy. Thousands of children go missing each year, yet we do not hear about all of those children, the media hit everyone's soft spot with this story. They made listeners and readers rethink again about how their problems were not as bad as the parents of the missing girl, and the girl herself. The news made Abagail and her family sound relatable and any normal teenager who plays sports and is supposed to return safely home from school. The media knows what sells and what doesn't, they knew what points to focus on in this story. Abigail Hernandez has been especially interesting to the media because of the specific facts and details of the case. At first it was a case that was considered a run-away case that turned into a missing child case that seemed very suspicious. Events in the case have been told and then stated as wrong, but the details are always attention grabbing. News reporters and articles have focused on the mothers first time speaking since her daughter's disappearance, and how odd it seemed. Abigail's mother seemed to be talking directly to her, begging her to come home, many did not know what to think of it. Within minutes of the speech being over, it was all