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If that is true, then why so defensive about the opinion of a tv personality?
I certainly can't recall any. Can you?Do we? Or is it just confirmation bias?
There's some truth to that. Popular opinion would probably call such a discussion racist because of the inherent issues surrounding the Black community in the US, but it is still worthy of discussion.What's the difference? More unarmed white men are shot and killed by police every year than black men...why does the media only focus on black men? Does the media have "unarmed black man syndrome"?
Would that be a valid cultural discussion? If Tucker Carlson came on tv one night and suggested that the media had "unarmed black man syndrome" would you sit there and think "gee...he really has a point."?
Fair enough - I did see that post but didn't register that it was yours. See below.I already posted an explanation...full stop. Did you read the rest of the thread? Try post#7
It's not really accurate to call them "Youtubers". Their Youtube channel has one video from just before her disappearance, and prior to the media coverage, they had less than 1000 followers. For perspective, my cousin, a random girl in her twenties with no aspirations to be an influencer or otherwise achieve fame or profit via social media, has more than 1000 followers on her Instagram.The couple were YouTubers and had some presence in the public eye to start with.
Ultimately, these details do add to the drama and intrigue, but that requires the media finding and covering them first - which is a conscious action. I have no doubt that there are plenty of missing persons cases with similar levels of intrigue associated with them that haven't been blasted across the news 24/7. One example I can think of off the top of my head is the case of Adnan Syed. I know about it thanks to the podcast Serial, but the story went pretty much unreported outside of the local news. 15 years later, the maker of the podcast took up the investigation and still managed to dig up tons of juicy and intriguing details despite the amount of time that had passed.There's footage of them being stopped by police on the side of the road where they seem to have been arguing recently.
There's random footage of a passerby who might have passed their van near the forest while driving.
Then there's the return of the boyfriend, alone, his refusal to help investigators and subsequent disappearance.
These elements add up to a little bit more intrigue than the typical missing person case.
Sure, and the way that the story is told gets an audience far more than the actual subject. The media made a conscious decision to push this story to a national level.Of course, the media has one unflappable rule when it comes to media coverage....whatever gets an audience gets coverage.
I think the lady on tv has a valid point.
I certainly can't recall any. Can you?
There's some truth to that. Popular opinion would probably call such a discussion racist because of the inherent issues surrounding the Black community in the US, but it is still worthy of discussion.
As you said in your other post, what gets an audience, gets coverage, and in the current climate, police shooting a black person gets way more of an audience than police shooting a white person.
Fair enough - I did see that post but didn't register that it was yours. See below.
It's not really accurate to call them "Youtubers". Their Youtube channel has one video from just before her disappearance, and prior to the media coverage, they had less than 1000 followers. For perspective, my cousin, a random girl in her twenties with no aspirations to be an influencer or otherwise achieve fame or profit via social media, has more than 1000 followers on her Instagram.
Ultimately, these details do add to the drama and intrigue, but that requires the media finding and covering them first - which is a conscious action. I have no doubt that there are plenty of missing persons cases with similar levels of intrigue associated with them that haven't been blasted across the news 24/7.
One example I can think of off the top of my head is the case of Adnan Syed. I know about it thanks to the podcast Serial, but the story went pretty much unreported outside of the local news. 15 years later, the maker of the podcast took up the investigation and still managed to dig up tons of juicy and intriguing details despite the amount of time that had passed.
Sure, and the way that the story is told gets an audience far more than the actual subject. The media made a conscious decision to push this story to a national level.
Here's MY question:Joy Reid dismisses interest in Gabby Petito as ‘missing white woman syndrome’
I've long called discussions about white privilege to be thinly veiled racism against whites. In it's most academic arguments, it's a poorly evidenced and basically immeasurable/undetectable accusation of unconscious racism that favors whites over everyone else. In that form, it's an interesting bit of speculation that doesn't really explain anything. After all, there's no way to detect "white privilege" and certainly no way to measure its effects.
That should have been the beginning and end of the term...but instead, it's been picked up and used as an explanation for anything by people who are racist against whites. Does a white person have a better job than you? White privilege. Does your child's school teach them about European history? White privilege. Even if you aren't white and you have achieved the same thing as a white person....be it a degree or level success at a career....you can still claim that you worked harder, or the white person didn't have to overcome as many obstacles, because of white privilege.
Here now, we have a black woman on tv lamenting that a dead white girl has benefitted from her white privilege even as a corpse. These racists think there's never a bad time to draw attention to some imaginary racial victimhood....even if that time is during a tragedy where a family has found their dead daughter.
"Well, the answer actually has a name: Missing White Woman Syndrome - the term coined by the late and great Gwen Ifill to describe the media and public fascination with missing White women like Laci Peterson or Natalee Holloway, while ignoring cases involving people of colour,” the host of ReidOut on MSNBC said."
Remarkable. It's as if these racists were in a coma during all of 2020 when millions protested daily over crimes committed against black people. I suppose they imagine that no white people were wrongly shot by police during that whole time. They don't see this horrible tragedy unfold and think "what an awful thing for this girl's family to go through"....
They think "how can I make this story about black people and how they are the real victims"?
It's as if this case doesn't deserve the attention the media has given it...because the victim is white. You would think that since they spend so much time bringing attention to black victimhood, no matter how small or petty, they would appreciate taking a little break from it.
Instead, it appears they resent it. It's as if the constant stream of racism towards whites, and the devaluation of our struggles and achievements (through the accusation of white privilege) has left these racists at a point where they become angry that the media would dare give attention to the horrible tragedy and struggle this white family is going through.
It's disgusting that these racists and their racist beliefs have become so mainstream on the left that discussions like this are taken seriously...instead of dismissed as the racist garbage they are.
Thoughts?
Out of curiosity, did you live in or near Kansas City at the time?
Do you mean the crimes don't draw media attention or the fact that it is black on black crime is not mentioned when discussing said media attention?Generally speaking though, black on black crime doesn't tend to draw a lot of media attention.
What is it about this case that captures so much front page news? Especially Fox News.
Do you mean the crimes don't draw media attention or the fact that it is black on black crime is not mentioned when discussing said media attention?
but those aren't missing person cases.Mostly those that turned up dead shortly later.
Cases regarding black girls/young adults tend to get famous for different reasons. Apart from the obvious Breonna Taylor case, the Jazmine Barnes case drew a lot of attention for awhile
I do wonder how someone can explain why beautiful white women who go missing will show up on thenational news while aboriginal women have never had it
Personally I can't think of a single missing back woman a sorry that is getting Gabby level coverage.
And it is hard to argue that it is not a consistent pattern of national news outlets.
but those aren't missing person cases.
I can't think of missing person story where there was a possibility they were alive and the woman was black.
Do you have any stories?
You're thinking of aborigines. Aboriginals is another common name for first Nations people, or Indians.I can't speak intelligently on Australian media.
Matthew Sheppard!!I can't think of a single white man that was killed by police that got the level of coverage that George Floyd did.
So you really don't see it eh?Right...what's your point?
What do you mean "a possibility they were alive"?
If they're just missing, there's always a possibility they're alive.
No. Again though, I don't see your point.
If 50,000 girls and women going missing this year....you aren't going to see any national coverage for 49,999 of them.
Pointing out the skin color of the one you did hear about and claiming it's the reason why you heard about her is pretty racist.
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