Wikipedia: 'Missing white woman syndrome'

Submitted by anthony on Tue, 2008-12-16 23:27

Wikipedia entry here. Excerpt:

'Missing White Woman Syndrome (MWWS) is a term used to describe what is alleged to be a disproportionately greater degree of coverage in television, radio, and print news reporting of a missing person case involving a white woman, compared with cases concerning male or non-white individuals. In the United States, a very small percentage of missing persons are victims of non-family abductions, and these victims are, according to the FBI, the most endangered. The majority of these missing persons are white female juveniles.

The essential features of a missing person said to give rise to Missing White Woman Syndrome are sex,her race, (relative) prettiness, and age. These features are said to provoke positive discrimination in the reporting as news of the disappearance of a young white woman, and so to increase public interest in her disappearance.'

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I'm just glad to see it getting out there in wider circulation. There's one female reporter on FOX News... A few years ago I referred to her show as the "Missing White Woman's Hour." Her show was wall to wall, missing white women, yet that's probably the smallest demographic of murder victims by race and gender.

Is America's news media sexist against men??? Yea, to the hilt.

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Submitted by MR on Wed, 2008-12-17 18:39

I think its Greta Van Susteren and her obsession with missing white women. Also, Nancy Grace -- Who I can't stand.

{KMFDM}

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Submitted by anthony on Fri, 2008-12-19 22:42