Reported Missing: Some Balance In Coverage
USA Today’s Mark Memmott looks into the amazing coincidence that so many of the missing persons cases that the cable news channels obsess over appear to involve attractive white women.
The relative of one missing black woman in South Carolina said, “If you were dropped on to this planet you’d think there’s a strange thing going on, where only young white women are missing. That’s not true.”
“It’s stunning sometimes how hard it is to get the national media interested when it’s a minority,” Philip Lerman, co-executive producer of America’s Most Wanted and a former editor at USA TODAY, told Memmott.
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