Pitts: Media coverage does pretty young white women no favors

Article here. I'm not a huge fan of Mr. Pitts, but he gets it right on this one. Excerpt:

'Another white woman has turned up missing. And, as predictably happens in such cases, television news has gone into overdrive, CNN, ABC, NBC providing breathless updates of Michelle Parker's disappearance, how she was last seen the day she appeared on "The People's Court," suing her former fiance, who is now the prime suspect in her kidnapping.

This story unfolds in the wake of similar media fixations on Laci Peterson, Elizabeth Smart, JonBenet Ramsey, Jennifer "Runaway Bride" Wilbanks, Chandra Levy, Lori Hacking, Robyn Gardner, Natalee Holloway, all of them young, female, white, pretty -- and imperiled. There is, should it need saying, a naked bias in the media's obsession with white women in danger to the exclusion of pretty much every other cohort of the American demographic.'