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Pregnant Philadelphia woman missing for 9 days **Updated 8/20** Found Dead
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Lets face it folks, before you get all upset about the media deciding what stories to follow: the media will cover whatever story gets the most viewers and the highest rating. It just so happens that in our (US) society, more people will watch and follow a story about a pretty young white woman than any other (missing persons) story. Bottom line, if the population would watch more if it were a missing black woman, the media would cover that story instead...... Not a racism issue, it's a simple $$ issue.
vegetation
Diamond Member
Yep, even more so in recent years with profits plummeting from the news business in general. They have to appeal to the uneducated masses in even greater amounts. American news is pretty much useless now.
EyeMNathan
Banned
She's hot (from the one pic I've seen), doesn't that get her any media points? Guess not.
MrDingleDangle
Lifer
def. dont look for this on a current affair (which has daily updates of aruba)
from the times my roommate and i watch (purely for humor) we have noticed that only about 1 out of every 20 stories or so does not center around a blond white woman...and that other 1 is usually white, just not blond...guess they run out of blondes being murdered
from the times my roommate and i watch (purely for humor) we have noticed that only about 1 out of every 20 stories or so does not center around a blond white woman...and that other 1 is usually white, just not blond...guess they run out of blondes being murdered
NFS4
No Lifer
Nancy Grace still spends 30 mins a day talking about Natalee Holloway. This has been everyday for two months.
She goes around in circles talking to the mom and the dad and the stepdad and the stepmom and all the talking heads. It's quite sick actually that so much is going on in the country and she focuses on this 24-7.
I was actually quite surprised that she didn't even really cover the whole Supreme Court judge nomination. I was really shocked that she only spent about 5 mins talking about that in total.
And I was REALLY surprised that she didn't even talk about GTA: SA. That's REALLY up her alley since she was blasting that cop killer game a few weeks ago (I think it's called 20 to life or something like that)
dmcowen674
No Lifer
Philly or Alabama
The Bible Belt is where it's at now folks, come on get with the program.
montanafan
Diamond Member
Race does play a part in the media's decisions about which types of these cases to cover, but I wouldn't categorize it as racism on the media's part. Their main focus is viewership and what will the majority of viewers out there be able to relate to and therefore be hooked by to continue tuning in to follow the story. The demographic they are striving for is the same as the one advertisers target - white, middle class, and parents.
In the Chandra Levy case you had the extra hook of a political scandal.
In the Elizabeth Smart case you had all the demographics covered plus a very low crime area where these sorts of things just don't happen.
In the Laci Peterson case you had all the demographics plus the extra hook that it happened on Christmas Eve.
In the Holloway case you had all the demographics plus that it happened during a Senior Class trip in a vacation getaway right when a lot of parents were sending their kids off on Senior trips, graduation time, vacation time coming up.
CNN is covering this story, but I'd say it's only in response to the blogger being outspoken about the media's lack of interest in these sorts of cases. It's not fair, but the bottom line for networks in the last several years has become that their news departments can be big moneymakers for them. I think that's why so many people have lost respect for the media over the last couple of decades.
In the Chandra Levy case you had the extra hook of a political scandal.
In the Elizabeth Smart case you had all the demographics covered plus a very low crime area where these sorts of things just don't happen.
In the Laci Peterson case you had all the demographics plus the extra hook that it happened on Christmas Eve.
In the Holloway case you had all the demographics plus that it happened during a Senior Class trip in a vacation getaway right when a lot of parents were sending their kids off on Senior trips, graduation time, vacation time coming up.
CNN is covering this story, but I'd say it's only in response to the blogger being outspoken about the media's lack of interest in these sorts of cases. It's not fair, but the bottom line for networks in the last several years has become that their news departments can be big moneymakers for them. I think that's why so many people have lost respect for the media over the last couple of decades.
Last Rezort
Banned
Reason?
The msm is only concerned with hot women.
That is all.
NFS4
No Lifer
Updated, found dead
http://www.pennlive.com/newsflash/pa/in...29/1124545490211830.xml&storylist=penn
http://www.pennlive.com/newsflash/pa/in...29/1124545490211830.xml&storylist=penn
Cuda1447
Lifer
I agree. To a certain extent though. Not all white people get coverage either, the beautiful/rich/famous ones do. There are hundreds of murders/kidnappings every day, and only a select few get mass coverage. Some for months at a time. Which I personally think is ridiculous. I hate watching it cause I could give a rats ass. Whats so different about this person then the other 100 people that got murdered today? There are some circumstances that are very unusual and deserve coverage, but for the most part I hate seeing all these stupid stories on the news.
PingSpike
Lifer
I don't know what to tell you, tell black people to watch CNN? montanafan pretty much nailed it...they're just playing to their target audience. Which brings in advertising dollars. The news is just another corporate entity with its own agenda, its just become more apparent lately.
American news is absolute trash, as you correctly pointed out they've been jerking off over that missing Aruba teens corpse for god knows how long now. She looked like an idiot to me, and I bet her naive stupidity is what did her in. There's tons of unsolved murders, kidnappings, etc...the news is snags the ones it thinks it can make the most money off of. A pretty young blonde girl...oh my! Its no secret our society seems obsessed with them.
And for the record, I first heard about this case on CNN when I was flipping channels and they said they caught her boyfriend red handed trying to move her body.
American news is absolute trash, as you correctly pointed out they've been jerking off over that missing Aruba teens corpse for god knows how long now. She looked like an idiot to me, and I bet her naive stupidity is what did her in. There's tons of unsolved murders, kidnappings, etc...the news is snags the ones it thinks it can make the most money off of. A pretty young blonde girl...oh my! Its no secret our society seems obsessed with them.
And for the record, I first heard about this case on CNN when I was flipping channels and they said they caught her boyfriend red handed trying to move her body.
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