Lost and Found

If I ever get lost in the forest, remind me to be a member of the media when it happens.

If you live practically anywhere in California, you can't help but knowing that an editor from CNET and his family got stuck in the snow for about a week. The family was found but the father, who left the car to try to find help, has not yet. And with temperatures in the 20's at night, it doesn't look good.

It's a sad story and all, but not riveting enough as its prime placement in the media. It is the Page One story in the SF Chronicle, SF Examiner, San Jose Mercury News, and on CNET.com, where they don't usually put news on the front page at all.

Today so far there is no new news, (I check news websites at least once an hour for no reason I can explain) so all the headlines are "Family doesn't give up hope," and "Search for James Kim goes on."

Yesterday the news was "Pants Found in Grants Pass!" as a pair of pants matching Kim's were found. No good theories emerged on why he would have taken off said pants in the first place.

I'm pretty sure that I could die in my own apartment and nobody would notice it for a week until the smell reached the neighbors, let alone be lost in the wilderness. I'd be the one found eight months later with gnaw marks on my skull from wild boars chewing on it and my editors would be all, "I thought it was weird he never turned in that story about wine coolers." But in a way, that would be them saying they really cared.