Missing: Hot, Blonde, Rich, White Girl

After obsessively watching cable "news" (for some reason), I have come to realize one thing. That is, if you ever go missing your best and only hope of ever getting any media attention is if you are: 1. Attractive- the prettier you are directly relates to amount of coverage you will receive (i.e. Laci Peterson, Natalee Holoway) 2. Caucasian 3. Relation/connection to any celebrity (i.e. Olivia Newton John's "boyfriend") 4. Socioeconomic status. (Elizabeth Smart, Danielle Van Dam)

Sorry Mrs. Jackson, Your daughter is too poor and frankly too black for us to
give any coverage about her disappearence. -Cable News

It is an injustice to our society for the media to sensationalize one missing person's story, like the Natalee Holoway case in Aruba. And I am just as guilty of watching the monotonous coverage. I sit like a zombie for hours like I am watching a five-hour episode of CSI, where in this case, nothing gets solved. In closing, it is my hope that cable news goes back to journalism school and realizes that it is a journalist's duty and oath to their viewers is to report on issues that represent and effect society as a whole.