12 January 2008, 7:48 pm
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Uncategorized: Misplaced Priorities
With all of the national tragedies that take place on a daily basis, none of them grip the attention of the media like a missing white girl. Usually, a blonde one. Why? I just don’t get it.
I wait for the day a black lesbian from Anacostia gets kidnapped and Fox news reminds the world of it every 10 minutes for two weeks. On that day, I’ll stop bitching about misplaced priorities.
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I’ve thought it would make an interesting journalism dissertation to study how race and class influence the reporting about a victim. I bet you will find that middle-class, white women get more coverage and more front-page coverage than any other group. Even the supposedly “liberal media” have their own racist and classist biases.
Ben, I have had the very same thought that you did… and to put a contemporary spin on the question, why don’t we hear about minority kids who go missing, absent from school, whose house has a particularly odoriferous emanation? It’s a sad situation when race plays so much of a role in these things. I just don’t get it!
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