June 17, 2005
Help Find Tamika Houston
Earlier this month at the Volokh Conspiracy, Orin Kerr couldn't help but note that most stories concerning missing persons concentrated on young and attractive white women:
At the same time, I am often amazed at how brazen the MSM can be in selecting what types of missing persons reports it selects as leading stories, especially on websites and TV. The missing person is almost always young; always a woman; always white; and always attractive. Right now the CNN.com home page is leading with this missing persons story, featuring (of course) a photograph of the attractive young woman front and center . . .
I can't stress enough that I am not saying this story isn't newsworthy. Every missing persons report is potentially newsworthy. Still, a person who followed the MSM uncritically might think that the only missing people in America are young attractive white women.
Which leads us to a post from my friend Steve Ovadia:
I hope everyone with a blog will decide to read this USA Today story: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-06-15-missing-minorities_x.htm and then link to this site: www.tamikahuston.com.
Tamika Huston is a young woman from South Carolina who has been missing since May, 2004.
You probably haven't heard of her, even though the national media has reported minute-by-minute accounts of other missing young women.
I won't get into why I suspect that is the case. I'm just asking that anyone with a blog, big or small, consider posting a link to Tamika Huston's site (http://www.tamikahuston.com), with the hope that the blogosphere can succeed where the national (US) media has failed.
If you blog, please link.
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