From Utah to the UN: How Elizabeth Smart Turned a Bedroom Abduction into the World’s Awkward Civics Lesson
Global Kidnapping, Global Redemption: How the Elizabeth Smart Saga Became a Universal Morality Tale By the time a 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart was dragged from her Salt Lake City bedroom in 2002, the planet had already endured a decade of breathless, 24-hour tragedy porn. From Mogadishu to Manila, cable executives had discovered that nothing spikes ratings…