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Both NBC and CBS filed lurid features about kidnapping. Seth Doane on CBS made a half-hearted attempt to tie the anxiety of Mexico City businessmen about being held for ransom with his newscast's lead story--the narcotrafficking wars in Mexico's northern border states. He used montage to create the impression of a link but stated no connection between the drug cartels and the kidnap gangs: "If people are not touched by crime itself, they are by fear," was his best effort. "As the drug war over turf and trafficking escalates here, so do jitters." From Beijing, NBC's Adrienne Mong told us that as many as 20,000 children are abducted from their parents each year in China. All of them happen to be boys, she explained. Because of China's one-child policy, wealthy parents of daughters are desperate for male heirs and rely on kidnap gangs to snatch a ready-born son from a poor family. Pricetag $2,000 per boy.
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