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[RandySF]

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[Skittles]

1. it is very disturbing indeed

they need to be confronted on this

[RandySF]

3. I would add the crisis of missing and dead Native American women.

[Skittles]

4. it's terrible

these families grieve just as much as Ms. Petito's family

[calimary]

10. And Latinas.

They get short shrift also.

Anything not young, white, pretty, and blonde doesn’t seem to move the meter at all.

Makes me wonder about all the women of color who’ve met that fate or are listed as “missing” (if indeed they’re listed at all!).

[2naSalit]

25. +1

[Ocelot II]

2. Nor have I.

Off course what happened to her is a terrible thing, but this kind of coverage seems to be limited to crimes where the victim is not only white and female, but young, blond, attractive, and middle-class. Coverage of the disappearance or murder of Black women, or Native women, or homely women, or old women, or poor women, tends to appear only in local news outlets to the extent there is any at all.

[Aussie105]

12. Media have clearly defined the relative values

of human lives based on clearly defined parameters.
Those being ethnicity, gender, appearance and age.

Racism so entrenched in peoples' thinking it goes unnoticed.

This case just ticks all the right boxes, so gets all the media attention.

It's sickening. Not this case, it deserves media attention, but that others are ignored because they don't tick those boxes as much.

[applegrove]

5. I remember reading in the Village Voice back when the central park 5

were arrested for raping that poor investment banker, that a black woman went up to the roof of her building in the NYCity area to watch the sunrise. She was attacked and raped. She was thrown off the building to kill her but she grabbed onto some tv cable wires attached to the building and hung there screaming for help for more than a few minutes. Her story did not get nearly the coverage the Village Voice pointed out. Both gruesome. They should have gotten equal coverage. And if course the tragedies were worsened in that the Central Park 5 were innocent. This story is newsworthy due to the silence off the boyfriend here but so are the deaths if so many black women.

[StarfishSaver]

6. The saturation coverage of this is ridiculous

I'm sorry about what happened to this poor young woman, but this is NOT national news and certainly doesn't merit the hysterical, herd-like coverage it's receiving.

[uponit7771]

29. +1, "saturation coverage "

[sagetea]

7. Or our Native

Women. It's so sad on every level.

AHO`
sage

[Cobalt Violet]

17. only 5000+ year.

Aho

[RainCaster]

27. That was my first thought. nt

[uponit7771]

28. +1

[calimary]

8. No kidding!

Obsessing on young, white, pretty, and blonde. That’s all you need in America, I guess.

[LonePirate]

9. Winslow is correct. This event shows how racist our media and police forces are.

[ashredux]

11. You are correct. As well as any native American woman

[dianaredwing]

13. Not to mention

all of the young native and First Nations girls and women missing every year.

[mountain grammy]

14. wow no kidding..

45 minutes on the national news while 1000/day die of COVID. Any wonder why we are where we are?

[Cobalt Violet]

16. White Lives Matter.

clearly.

[mountain grammy]

19. Yep

[Cobalt Violet]

15. 5000+ Misssing and Murdered Indigenous women!

Every fucking Year. Crickets from the media. No big law enforcement effort. Nothing.

[Roy Rolling]

18. Body camera images

The body camera images made the story sensational from the start. An African-American student disappeared from the Mississippi River bridge in Baton Rouge, Louisiana last year and it was a featured story for days.

Not to excuse networks that target programming to racists, but lumping in all media is too broad a criticism to be taken as a serious, fact-based observation.

And again, it doesn’t excuse the drivel on stations and networks that target racists for their racist advertisers. But the connection between companies that sponsor racist content for profit and racism is seldom mentioned. Those are your media bad guys.

[SergeStorms]

20. Truer words....

have never been spoken. But that's the "liberal" media for you.

[hauckeye]

21. I said the same thing to my husband tonight

It’s only being covered because she’s white blond and attractive

[BigmanPigman]

22. I noticed the same thing. It was obvious to me

and probably many others too.

[The Jungle 1]

23. Ouch, stupid truth.

The only thing that I support myself with is that I believe we are on a rapid path in the right direction.
Do not release the pressure.

[sarchasm]

24. Ugh. So true.

[Martin68]

26. I admit I was puzzled why such a big deal was made of a missing person in this case.

She's white! And middle class!

[Ohiya]

30. Look at the home page here at DU

[mopinko]

31. there were a pair of little black girls, sisters, went missing in chicago several years ago.

absolutely adorable, something like 3 & 5 yo.
bet you never heard about them. dont think they were ever found.

[mopinko]

32. ok, they were 10 and 3. went missing in 2001

never found.
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/07/06/family-of-diamond-and-tionda-bradley-search-for-answers-19-years-later/

[pansypoo53219]

33. not even missing black girls. the gnewz really likes blondes too.

[marieo1]

34. Agreement

The media is totally biased and always have been biased.

[nilram]

35. And if the guy was Black, he'd be locked up by now.