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Yes, there are other reasons that Cho was not as heavily reported on, but the Gabby thing was over the top. If she was fat and unattractive, for example, do you think she would have gotten the same media frenzy? I don't.
No question that these all increase attention:
1) Good looking
2) clear villian identified, especially shady actions to stir up anger
3) "bread crumbs" like how the police had ran across petito or if they have video footage as opposed to *poof* disappeared. Hard to keep reporting on nothing.
4) villain and family are *attackable* without upsetting people that then claim racism etc.
That being said Britney Griner is getting a lot of attention and prior to this, sad to say it but a lot of people had zero idea who she was.
I agree, they get more coverage. I mean we gotta call a spade a spade here and yes the media is biased with coverage of “pretty white girl” but ask yourself does it really matter? Does it bring her back? Did she suffer less of a fate because her picture is plastered all over the media and then every new story? The outcome is still the same. A sad loss of life.
It always kind of baffled me this insatiable attraction to blonde women. Blonde women don’t tend to age as well as more olive skinned women found around the world. But for whatever reason when they’re young, every man wants one. Lol
Reality is, any young person being a victim of a random crime of this nature is sad. What kind of media coverage they get, didn’t matter at the time they were being tortured, raped or murdered. It’s all the sad same in the end.
Yeah, "pretty young blonde White girl missing" is the headline grabber. And this from the same media that howls so loudly about minority under representation. The media are verminous scavengers. This particular incident happened quite close to me. Prosser res is only about a half hour away. Used to hang out in that area a lot when I was in my 20s and lived just outside of Reno.
Folks hereabouts get pretty stirred up when a murder like this happens close. A story like this will always headline before the Hispanic or Black girl who gets shot in a driveby down on Sutro and Montello. Which does stir me up a bit considering how the media is always finding RACISM hiding in every quarter but their own.
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Blame leftists and their control of the mainstream media. Racism is the order of the day for the left.
This focus on blond girls who go missing (or are killed under very suspicious circumstances) goes way back to JonBenet Ramsey. I don't think you can blame the left.
You can "blame" the public if you want, for our intense, passionate interest in those cases.
The media doesn't create this frenzy. The public does.
This focus on blond girls who go missing (or are killed under very suspicious circumstances) goes way back to JonBenet Ramsey. I don't think you can blame the left.
You can "blame" the public if you want, for our intense, passionate interest in those cases.
The media doesn't create this frenzy. The public does.
I haven't really been paying attention to missing girls races, but it seems to me that most of the "amber alerts" issued over the past years in my area have been Hispanic girls. At least those are the ones I recall. Guess I have a thing for Hispanic women, huh?
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Only you know the answer to that. 
