Why did CBS exploit the kidnapping by running a very similar tv drama Monday night? [View all]

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(another poster mentioned this in a post Tuesday morning...I watched this Monday mostly to see guest star Mare Winningham and could not believe they ran it. And many times there were promos in the NY/NJ area for the 11pm news talking about the real life kidnapping horror.
(for those that don't know this is a reboot/continuation of the original 1970s show.)

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'Hawaii Five-0': Kidnapping episode parallels real-life Cleveland case

http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2013/05/hawaii-five-0-kidnapping-episode-parallels-real-life-cleveland-case.html


Monday's (May 6) episode of "Hawaii Five-0" featured a story line that played out with uncanny parallels to events unfolding in real life.

The episode, "Ho' opio," centered on the discovery of a teenage girl's body, and the subsequent information that she had been abducted 10 years earlier. It aired just as national news was picking up the story of the three women who escaped from their abductors in Cleveland after a decade.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer posted its first story on the abduction just after 7 p.m. ET Monday. Cable news networks picked it up soon afterward, and the story dominated coverage for the rest of the night.

The story did not, however, cause the broadcast networks to interrupt their prime-time coverage. CBS aired the "Five-0" episode (which was based in part on a real abduction case in Hawaii in the 1980s). Guest stars Henry Rollins and Mare Winningham played a couple who had been holding a girl captive for 10 years and claiming she was their daughter in order to collect extra welfare benefits.