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Update: James Kim's Body Found
The body of a San Francisco man who had walked into the Oregon wilderness to summon help for his stranded family was found Wednesday in a steep ravine where he had left clues for searchers.
Officials confirmed that James Kim, 35, an editor at the Web site CNET, had been found dead.
It's all over the news and all over the blogosphere:
CNet Senior Editor James Kim is still missing, but his family has been found alive. They burned tires for fuel, ate everything in the car and Mrs. Kim resorted to breastfeeding to keep her children alive. She was able to flag down a rescue crew by flapping an umbrella covered with reflective tape. As of this writing, Mr. Kim is still lost, last seen heading into the snowy wilderness to find help for his family.
Rescuers were able to use signals recently sent from cell phone towers in order to narrow the search area down in order to find the family and narrow the search for James Kim. People are searching for him on horseback, with dogs, on foot and from heat-seeking helicopters.
The coverage for this story is nothing short of incredible. At last look, the story was being followed by all the major news networks in addition to CNet itself. Here's a roundup of the news:
San Francisco Chronicle
CNet
NBC
AOL
ABC News
MSNBC News
Additonally, BoingBoing has been tracking the story, and related stories and blog posts are proliferating Digg and the blogosphere at large like crazy.
The thing is, people go missing all the time. And PLEASE don't get me wrong here -- this is a terrible tragedy, and I do sincerely hope that Mr. Kim is returned safely to his family as soon as possible.
But 2,300 people are reported missing every day, according to CourtTV's Crime Library. And not all missing persons cases garner this degree of media attention. Why is it that this one is? James Kim is certainly not a blond white girl, a group of people that seems to garner media attention for pretty much everything.
Not that you haven't guessed the reason already. James Kim's a senior editor at CNet, a tremendous resource for other tech media ... and now, tech media's looking out for one of their own. And by extension, the people who read and comment on tech media are passing the word along.
It doesn't seem fair at all ... and it's not. But on the other hand, a missing person is a missing person. And if a couple thousand blog posts can help bring a starving man out of the snow and back with his family, that's fine by me.
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Dear Jeff
thanks for this touching account of a great man and his brave family
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I was personally very sad that this amn did not make it out alive! what a loss!
my heart goes out to his family and friends,
hugs,natalie
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It's like Apocalypse Now... "never get outof the boat." Orcar, in this case.
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Whenever anything bad happens to anyone like this; it is fair to use whatever resources one has:friends, family, or people from your place of EMPLOYMENT. So, if his employer spread the news of his missing a little too much, SO WHAT?
I would rather see all employers try to help all employees in times of trouble; even if they happen to be connected to the media and can use those resources and appear to be OVERDOING it. -
If only he asked for directions in the first place...
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