Monitor: US comment as the wreckage of JFK Jnr's plane and his two passengers are found
All the News of the World
Your support helps us to tell the story
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.
At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.
The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political spectrum. And unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock Americans out of our reporting and analysis with paywalls. We believe quality journalism should be available to everyone, paid for by those who can afford it.
Your support makes all the difference.TO THOSE of the Baby Boom generation and their elders, JFK Jnr will always be John-John, the precocious child playing under his father's White House desk, and saluting the casket of the [assasinated] president. But as television networks devoted almost nonstop coverage to the tragedy and newspapers spared no ink with their coverage, many younger Americans were asking what all the fuss was about.
After all, they said, what had John Jnr really accomplished during his 39 years? John F. Kennedy Jnr didn't discover a cure for cancer. He didn't walk on the moon, or win the Nobel Peace Prize. He didn't have to. It was enough for most of us that, with his life's combination of tragedy, wealth, privilege and media scrutiny, he didn't wind up being a jerk.
Daily Star
THE DISCOVERY of the plane is important for the public because it eliminates the possibility, remote but grotesque, that bounty hunters or other greedy and unscrupulous people would have sought to find and salvage the aircraft for commercial profit. It also will reduce the proliferation of far-out rumours and speculation concerning the flight, and fate of the plane's three occupants. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
HAS A nation ever placed so much of its hopes in one family, only to see them so repeatedly dashed by tragedy? These Kennedy men, even outside of public office, have seemed always in the wings, the embodiment of power and purpose, of mystique and mission, as ready heirs to the mantle of leadership when the nation would need them most. In three decades we had come to expect, even demand it of them.
Daytona Beach News
JFK JNR deserves better from the media than the Princess Di treatment. Taking only sensible risks, he might have become an important publisher or a genuine leader. But he did not fall victim to any "Kennedy curse".
The icon-busting Book of Job teaches that God does not micro-manage the universe, and that free-willed human beings are responsible for actions and injustices.
That's why life is unfair.
North West Arkansas News
Join our commenting forum
Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies
Comments