Crush of the Week: Accused Orgy Murderer Amanda Knox

Timothy Egan’s blog on the NYTimes ran an important piece today on accused murderer and adorable American Amanda Knox, who is on trial in Italy for killing her British study-abroad roommate. The whole thing is a total European media sensation. The prosecutor in the case (who by all accounts seems crazy) is claiming that Amanda, her boyfriend, and some drifter killed the roommate as part of a good ol’ fashion drug-fueled Tuscan Satanic blood orgy.

This brings up an interesting question: Why is the US lagging so far behind our European brothers in daily coverage of this hot chick? Shouldn’t her beautiful face be splashed across the NYPost every day, as it is on the Guardian? What’s wrong with our tabloids that this isn’t worth over-covering?

C’mon People! This might be the most attractive woman ever accused of murder, AND it was supposedly committed during four-way sex, AND it seems highly likely that the accusations are totally false, meaning a stunning American college student is rotting in an Italian prison for something she didn’t do. We should be paying way too much attention. A smoking hot 21 year old falsely accused orgy murderer is more worthy of our print space than those homely, terrible John & Kate people.

Anyway, it's a good thing no one like her ever asked me to take part in a murderous blood orgy back when I was in college. I could have gotten in a lot of trouble.