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Missing White People Radio News...

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The news was canceled on most of the 24/7 cable news channels since the early spring with the Schiavo mess. Then it was canceled by Michael Jackson, then the Runaway Bride, then Jackson again, then an endless parade of missing white people. Now this has spread to radio news where we aren't even allowed 2-3 minutes of real news because, horrors, a stupid cub scout with the direction finding of a rock wanders three miles away from camp in Utah, a girl goes missing in Aruba and the media (Fox News in particular) plays Wheel of Suspects every day, and now two kids disappear somewhere in Idaho and the entire country has to deal with it.

Sure I feel bad when some kids go missing and I'm relieved when they turn up okay, but I should be reading about this on page 19G of my newspaper if I don't live within 200 miles of them. I *really* could care less to spend more than 10 seconds seeing in on any news channel, and I don't want to hear it on a radio newscast at all... not when we can't even get a solid five minutes an hour out of most stations of something resembling real news and not a reality show tie-in or what stupid thing Tom Cruise did today.

If they're African American or Asian, all you'll hear on this story is crickets. If they're white but not from a red state, you might hear it in passing. If they're white, female, and blonde, you've hit the Fox Trifecta and it's time to put Greta and Rivera on the plane and get those hourly radio newscasts out there too. Oooh.

And people wonder why it's a real bad idea to let a non-news tilted cable news channel also do newscasts for several thousand radio stations. Now you know.
 
"If they're white but not from a red state, you might hear it in passing."

You are hardly the first (or second, third, or fourth) person to note the incredible "missing cute white chick phenomenon".

The "not a red state" (i.e. a blue state) and Fox News conspiracy tie-in is a new twist. Just goes to show that anything can be politicized if one is truly determined to do so, and on this board, someone almost always is.

Have you checked out CNN lately? This story is plastered all over their website as I write this.<P ID="signature">______________
Jerry

"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts" - late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan</P>
 
> Have you checked out CNN lately? This story is plastered all
> over their website as I write this.

I didn't leave out CNN or MSNBC for that matter - Fox is simply the worst right now on this. CNN has been alternating between the kids in Idaho and running propaganda military features all weekend (I was sure glad to see Wolf Blitzer showing us getting his picture taken by our armed forces overseas -and- cheering it up with his own adopted Wolf Brigade -- wow, making yourself part of the story, nothing wrong with that!).

MSNBC doesn't do radio, but they've taken it to new lows themselves running the Idaho kids AND moldy Mary Kay LeTourneau repurposed Dateline pieces taped together into documentaries this weekend.

Fox spent loads of time dwelling on the Aruba girl's extensive Christian background, including lots of interviews with church people talking about how she walked the earth like Jesus. That's also not news.

I guess we'll wait and see how Fox handles a missing Muslim kid from Detroit. Call me suspicious, but I'll bet that'll be a whole different kettle of fish.

I might miss it though, because I've had to go to the CBC or BBC to get news about what's going on in my own country.
 
on average, with some exceptions, movies with white stars, particularly white women do better in international distribution than movies with other ethnic groups as stars..look at spanish language tv..and note the number of "euro" women....it is the marketplace at work......remember Jesica Lynch? the news was about her, she got the million bucks for her story, not the heavy set black women with her, the male troops who died fighting, or the native american women who was killed--and the Indy race woman who got more publicity for coming in 4th than then race winner---


therefore expect more missing white women reports especially if they are young, upper middleclass and foxy ...
 
<font face=arial><div align="justify">The way I see it, Fox News’ ratings success is attributable to their unabashed exploitation of a fact serious journalists would rather not acknowledge: News is entertainment. It has to be. No one <u>needs</u> 24 hour news channel to be well-informed. The first time I saw Fox News, I was impressed with the solid radio formatics Roger Ailes employed. The staccato cadence of the newsreader, the splashy graphics, the driving beat of the music. It all adds up to the "forward momentum" radio PDs are always trying to get their morning shows to achieve. Then I’d flip over and see (at the time) Bernard Shaw droning on and on about some forgettable story on CNN. TV’s only advantage over print is the ability to deliver the occasional story live. But how often does that happen? And how are we better informed watching it live instead of reading about it later? And furthermore, do we really need to know about every disaster? We don’t but we call it news because we’d rather not admit we find it entertaining.

I watch CNN and Fox occasionally just like I occasionally eat junk food. I know it’s not good for me but I figure (hope) a little won’t hurt too much.

"I guess we'll wait and see how Fox handles a missing Muslim kid from Detroit. Call me suspicious, but I'll bet that'll be a whole different kettle of fish."

We already know how Fox (and CNN, MSNBC et al) will handle it. They won’t. Tamika Huston of Spartanburg, South Carolina (near where I live) has been missing just over a year. There has been limited national mention recently, but only to self-report on the disparity in their own coverage between "cute white chicks" and everybody else.
<P ID="signature">______________
Jerry

"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts" - late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan</P>
 
> on average, with some exceptions, movies with white stars,
> particularly white women do better in international
> distribution than movies with other ethnic groups as
> stars..look at spanish language tv..and note the number of
> "euro" women....it is the marketplace at work......remember
> Jesica Lynch? the news was about her, she got the million
> bucks for her story, not the heavy set black women with her,
> the male troops who died fighting, or the native american
> women who was killed--and the Indy race woman who got more
> publicity for coming in 4th than then race winner---

PFC Lori Piestewa (the Hopi woman from Arizona) got lots of attention locally when she was killed - far more-so than any other Arizonan that died in Iraq or Afghanistan with the exception of Pat Tillman. How much attention did she get nationally other than that new house near Flagstaff for her family a few weeks ago, courtesy of ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition?

Here in Phoenix, Governor Janet Napolitano renamed a local mountain and nearby (and same-named) freeway after her. Unfortunately, this generated quite a bit of heat since it was considered mere political correctness (both had been named "Squaw Peak") rather than the proper honoring of one fallen soldier or of all Arizona servicemen & women who were killed in the war. Her death was viewed by many as an excuse for the Governor to order the long-debated renaming. Some (notably KFYI radio) will never forgive the Governor for this.
 
> I watch CNN and Fox occasionally just like I occasionally
> eat junk food. I know it’s not good for me but I figure
> (hope) a little won’t hurt too much.

But our local stations are even worse. They drone on about celebrities, and they also waste time reporting that the relatives of an alleged murderer say he is a good boy and would never do that.

Just report the facts, please. I don't care what the neighbors and relatives think. Then get on to the next story. How m,any significant news stories do we miss when they dwell on wall-to-wall crime scene or outside-the-courthouse reporting?

And I don't care about Scott Peterson or OJ or Michael Jackson or Hillary or [this week's celebrity newsmaker] on a day-to-day basis unless there's a chance he'll escape and endanger people in this county.

73s from 954<P ID="signature">______________
HURRICANE INFO ON SOUTH FLORIDA RADIO
Updated For 2005 Season
(including NOAA stations)</P>
 
> > I watch CNN and Fox occasionally just like I occasionally
> > eat junk food. I know it’s not good for me but I figure
> > (hope) a little won’t hurt too much.
>
> But our local stations are even worse.


Oh, I never watch those. Junk food is one thing, poison quite another!
<P ID="signature">______________
Jerry

"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts" - late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan</P>
 
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