If a white person goes missing, why is it broadcasted all over the national news?

Question

I rarely see broadcast about missing Asians, blacks, or latins. Does the media care about minorities? The real question is, does America care about minorities?

Note: Before you even do it...don't you dare call me ra cist.

Racist and idiotic replies are expected. Yahoo will delete all those answers anyway.

Define racist? It doesn't hurt that you call me racist because most people don't even understand the concept of racism.

Gosh, it's so easy to get people mad. Stop getting offended. If you said something about blacks and it was true, I wouldn't get upset.

When I go to sleep tonight and wake up tomorrow, I bet half of these answers will disappear. hahaha

Answer 1

I don't know, and further more have you noticed that they are usually blonde haired blue eyed. Like Jon Benet, Madeleine McCann or the holloway girl. But kidnappings of other girls often go under reported on the media. An above poster said that whites are the most likely to get kidnapped, but I beg to differ, has anyone heard about Phylicia Moore who was kidnapped while on a school trip in ghana, this happened right after natalie holloway but yet it was passed up by news crew who according to her parents felt "it wouldn't be a story american's could identify with". or what about Tamika Huston who was kidnapped and after her parents were turned down by news agencies had to take matters into their own hands and distribute flyers and set up a website to provide the media attention. Or what about Latoyia Figueroa.
It's sad how this country can let certain people fall through the cracks.

*edit: the girl below me is reffering to genaralow wilson*

Answer 2

I have never looked at the statistics to know how many people go missing every year and what the racial breakdown is. I think Joe South is correct, however, that groups are represented proportionally.

In the days before media, my brother went missing for many months. Fortunately, he was alive and had gone off on his own. There wasn't one line written in the newspaper or spoken on any radio or television station. He was a white boy and it was presumed, I suppose, that he was either dead or could take care of himself.

In the years since, we learn more about missing adults and children every day. I hope to God the media isn't overreporting missing and killed white people or underreporting black people. I know when a Boston girl went missing in NYC and was later found murdered it was widely reported on local and national media. And, when the black girl from NYC went missing on vacation we heard equally as much so it wasn't just because the first woman was from Boston.

When I was a young journalist, the police made me sit in the car when they went on domestic abuse calls. Even if I had written down the details my editor would not have let me report them in the newspaper. Frankly, I'm proud of how far the media has come in reporting cases of domestic abuse and homicide. If they have to come a bit further to balance the scales between people of all races, so be it.

Answer 3

On Nancy Grace I have seen her feature stories on Black children that were missing, and she interviewed the mothers. But overall the media does show mostly white missing women and children. The media has a writing team and news broadcasters, and of course they choose the stories they want to air, there's a procedure..they are looking for stories that will draw attention. The top people have to o.k. their stories, and news coverage.

I think America cares about minorities, there were a lot of people that were outraged at the results of Hurricane Katrina, and the conditions that the people were in. There has always been people who are racist, and until Jesus returns there will be those types of people.

Answer 4

My mother & my grandmother always say that. It's a racial thing. I only care about seeing minories on TV than anything else. I got real tired of seeing and hearing about Paris Hilton, Anna Nicole Smith, Britney Spears, and her gangsta wannabe husband, and Lindsey Logan, etc...their stories wasn't important, and the media wastes their time talking about it. I wanted to hear more about the latina woman that died at the Martin Luther King Hospital in L.A. They talked about it for maybe 5 minutes, and after that it was back to Paris Hilton. I don't think it's America that don't care, it's more likely the media doesn't give two squats.

Answer 5

You are absolutely freakin' right! The news did pay attention to a missing, pregnant black woman once during the whole Natalie Hollaway thing. Of course, just like the white women we're all seeing, her boyfriend killed her, too.

All I can think is that it's like New Orleans. Katrina was unspeakable and the media only cared because it was such a huge tragedy, the gov't still hasn't fixed it, and I really think that it had a lot to do with the fact that New Orleans was almost (if not, I can't exactly remember) majority black and has a reputation of having a lot of poor minorities. I'm sure people will riot for me having said that, but I'm sure that had a lot to do with it.

I think that most Americans DO care about minorities, and most Americans are good people who don't see color. Unfortunately, I think that stereotypes still rule and the media chooses their stories based on how much sympathy they can get.

I used to live in LA, and I remember that newscasts featuring a police sketch of a suspect were 90% Latino and about 10% black. There was never a white, Asian, Middle Eastern, etc.

What I can't say is if it's malicious. I'm not sure it is. Is it wrong? Absolutely.

Answer 6

yea girl i hate to admit it but you are right. I'm white as well and have noticed it to. i know that if my white son were to come up missing it would be a race against time, but if my black or one of my mixed children would come up missing it would be like o.k.,"we'll start tomorrow". that's sad isn't it? like i always say it's not the world that has a problem it's the people in the world who make the world the way it is.

thank you for the compliment and the 10 "who cares". i would be proud to call you mine. (child) ha ha ha ha!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 7

i have seen many missing person for latins,whites and blacks. i have not however seen many for asians. maybe because there are few asians compared to the latins,whites and black.also whenever a child or teen goes missing there is an amber alert given that disrupts a program to give information about the child or teen. in my experiance i have seen more amber alerts for latins then any other ethnic group only because there are more of them in my state (AZ), the minorities in my state is the whites. all in all it depends on where your located and how your state or city that you live at does in a missing persons case.

Answer 8

I hope you and every other black person on here flag all the comments on here that are racist. Those idiots are so backward... I would go Nat Turner on them if at all possible. Turn them in girl. You don't have to take that ****. Block them from answering your questions. You know that is an option now... right?

Answer 9

it does seem that they do put a bit more effort into it if they are white... just last week i saw on the news a black man age 17 got 20 yr for having oral sex with a 15 yr old.. luckly the next judge who came along did not think that was right.. and a white man who admitted to rapping a white girl age 14 got away with probation.. go figure.. btw i am white but i do understand what your saying

Answer 10

I don't know I have been hearing about the woman they just found dead everyday since she had been missing and also that girl that got kidnapped at Target... I recently heard about a black girl Stepha Henry I believe her name is... on a black message board if she would have been white we would be hearing about her every news broadcast