SUMMARY: Members of the black community also perceived a racial dimension to the scarcity of news coverage. Black children who go missing receive less media attention than white kids, says Natalie Wilson, who runs the Black and Missing Foundation. Wilson and her sister-in-law Derrica founded Black and Missing in 2008, after the disappearance of Tamika Huston, a 24-year-old woman from Spartanburg, S.C., went largely unnoticed by national media. A 2016 analysis of online coverage of missing persons published in the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology found some evidence that cases involving white women not only draw more attention, but more intense coverage. (The late journalist Gwen Ifill once dubbed the phenomenon “missing white woman syndrome.”)
Analysis: This story exists because it is the timely convergence of social activists foaming at the mouth to revel in the latest chapter of racial injustice in their eternal narrative of victimization.... while the news media is having a meta moment of navel gazing... simultaneously apologizing about how they've been ignoring these kids in favor of selling you the Jean Benet Ramsey story for the past 30 years, publicly atoning for it, but selling that back to you as well.... It begs the question, is this work of a deranged serial killer, or just an ongoing symptom of our deranged society?
http://time.com/4715136/dc-missing-girls-social-media/
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