A Swelling Tide?

Manifesto

A guestblogger over at Eschaton points us to this story in the Chicago Tribune titled: Missing white female alert.

Your continual focus on, and reporting of, missing, young, attractive white women not only demeans your profession but is a televised slap in the face to minority mothers and parents the nation over who search for their own missing children with little or no assistance or notice from anyone.
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The cable networks, which can certainly be considered centers of journalism, are also business centers with a harsh bottom line. The ratings for the cable networks are generally measured in the hundreds of thousands of viewers rather than the millions of viewers the major networks attract. Therefore, cable stations are constantly on the lookout for any story that may spike and then hold the ratings. Stories like those of Wilbanks, Sjodin, Levy or Smart seem to fit those requirements.

Regular readers might remember that this was my exact response a couple of weeks ago, if a little more considered. I'm glad this is out in the public forum. (I'm confused by the fact that I strongly agree with Bob Dole's former press secretary.) I'd like to hope that this becomes a serious discussion. America has a race problem that it continually ignores because it is ugly and painful to talk about. That needs to change.