Now the national news runs mostly local stories.

And increasingly, local news is a re-hash of all the local stories shown on the national news, as news departments become too lazy to actually find out what’s happening around them in their own city.

So now we have a careful selection of stories designed to catch the attention of the most people. It’s lazy reporting more than racism. If it happened a few years ago most of us would never had heard of Scott Peterson, since the national news would’ve left it as a local story, as it should have been.

But you’re right to shame the national outlets into covering this (as USAToday actually said in their article), since it would be interesting to learn what stories get elevated as ‘important’ to share with the world, and which don’t. I do suspect it’s a subtle form of racism, no different than the recurrent profiles of the injured/killed white kids in the tsunami.

This isn’t about race. I know that’s a favorite democratic tactic, though you normally avoid it. Make holloway a man, or ugly, and the coverage slacks.

But maybe it is pretty people. The missing black girl now is pretty, Natalee is pretty .. so maybe that is right. /sarcasm

And BTW Oliver, you’re wrong about news outlets reporting it the moment a crime was involved:

http://news.google.com/news?as_q=Natalee+Holloway&svnum=10&as_scoring=r&hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_nsrc=&as_nloc=&as_occt=any&as_qdr=&as_drrb=b&as_mind=1&as_minm=6&as_maxd=10&as_maxm=6

Not that that matters anyways because we are talking about missing people, not when a crime is comitted. Al though a crime is comitted 99% of the time when some one goes missing …

The girl in Philly is getting a lot of coverage .. FOX’s day shows spent a good portion on it.

And making them huge national stories is becoming ridiculous. I guess the one value I see in it is that people are sometime found because of all the attention. Like that “Shasta” girll found in the cafe in Idaho.

That’s the key. No one cares if an ugly hag is missing.

Why yes! In fact, it’s on the front page of fox right now, much more visable than holloway.

But instead of admitting, well, they did, it’s sour grapes. They didn’t cover it enough! They didn’t cover it until we complained! Please. As far as it being covered on foxnews tv, if it gets ratings, they’ll cover it, if not, they won’t.

Keep playing the victim.

Natalee made it on TV, not because she is WHITE (which we know is your opinion), but because she went missing in a nearby foreign country that the US sends a lot of tourism to. Also Natalee’s mom is a hound and got a hold of the media ASAP.

Peterson didn’t make as much news as Natalee did, and the story of her missing didn’t get as much coverage as Scott’s trial. The only reason she was popular was she went missing in a “perfect” town.

Latoyia is getting more popular every second, there was just a FOX News Alert that spent ten minutes on her. They have search teams going on:

http://x1.putfile.com/7/20810454159.jpg

That is the search team.

She is getting news .. she has only been missing for 10 days .. Natalee didn’t get popular until a good week into the coverage.

Calm down with your “because she is black no one cares”. I haven’t heard anything from Philly’s mayor, John Street, who is BLACK.

I have not heard anything from Latoyia’s congresswoman – Chaka Fattah (who is BLACK).

So please, lets stop blaming the white people.

Wow a nice long segment on Greta … but no one is paying attention to her!

Yeah no one is surely covering her!

I think the same thing can be said of Elizabeth Smart: a pretty blonde from a white upper-middle class family will receive more attention than any other ethnicity.

An interesting experiment would be to compare media coverage of this variety among disappearances of multiple ethnicities of the same age and from the same social stratum. Would a 15 year old black daughter of a doctor receive less media coverage than the white daughter of a lawyer? After all, OJ got off.

Tucker Carlson: “Tonight on The Situation .. a 25 year old missing mother in Philly …. “

If Ms Figueroa was white and named “Misty Williams,” the media would be all over this like… um… white on rice.

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight now.