[Jack_]

Originally Posted by Alf

Only the extreme left could bring skin colour in to a thread about a missing girl.

It's an addiction.

Do some reading m'love

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss...woman_syndrome

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/1...52070701630665

[Alf]

Originally Posted by Jack_

Do some reading m'love

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss...woman_syndrome

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/1...52070701630665

I don't need to read up on how the extreme left is addicted to racism. I've already learnt that. my sugar-plum

[Jack_]

Originally Posted by Alf

I don't to read up on how the extreme left is addicted to racism. I've already learnt that. my sugar-plum

Well you'll be forgiven for thinking that I'll be engaging in any kind of petty hyperbolic discussion about the 'extreme left' when it isn't at all relevant and is just a convenient excuse to justify accepting things at face value and allowing the media to tell you what you need to care about. My position comes from one of reading, yours does not. If you choose to remain wilfully ignorant of a very real, statistically sound issue, that's your prerogative, but you are part of the problem. Just know that, babe.

[Alf]

Originally Posted by Jack_

Well you'll be forgiven for thinking that I'll be engaging in any kind of petty hyperbolic discussion about the 'extreme left' when it isn't at all relevant and is just a convenient excuse to justify accepting things at face value and allowing the media to tell you what you need to care about. My position comes from one of reading, yours does not. If you choose to remain wilfully ignorant of a very real, statistically sound issue, that's your prerogative, but you are part of the problem. Just know that, babe.

Just get to the point. You'll like me dead.

[Jack_]

Originally Posted by Alf

Just get to the point. You'll like me dead.

The point was in my initial post and the links I provided, but in summary 'missing white girl/woman syndrome' refers to a tendency for the media to disproportionately report on cases in which white, middle class, often stereotypically 'attractive' women go missing, and devote hours of airtime and thousands of pages to these stories, meanwhile similar cases of men, working class and black (women) people or a combination of them go unreported.

There is much statistical evidence to back this up, and just as an example from the PDF article I linked, 'news treatments of child abductions in the USA show a particularly glaring bias in favour of cases featuring young white females: between 2000 and 2005, 76 per cent of child abductions featured on CNN News between 2000 and 2005 were white children, although only 53 per cent of abductees are white'.

Even without such evidence, just reading and watching the news will highlight this phenomenon. Tell me, in the last ten years, how many high profile stories do you remember of black women, men or working class people going missing that made national or international news? And if they did, I guarantee you there were open dialogues about those people's lifestyles, backgrounds, and how much of a role they or their family and friends played in their disappearance. That's because ~things like this don't happen to people like us~, case in point: the McCann's VS Shannon Matthews. Not too far away in time from each other, the former's parents overwhelmingly showered in sympathy by the press (yes the tide may have turned of late but the media still adores them), meanwhile Matthews' parents, town, home life were immediately brought into question - and why? Because she was unfortunate enough not to have been brought up by two middle class doctors. It is irrelevant how her case ended up, the immediate reporting by certain sections of the press was a stark difference from how Maddie's case was presented.

I don't know why I bothered to create this response because I'm sure someone will respond with 'bleeding heart loony liberal lefty scummy communist nonsense' but I'm afraid it's a real problem. Hopefully, if nothing else, it will make someone think.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Jack_

The point was in my initial post and the links I provided, but in summary 'missing white girl/woman syndrome' refers to a tendency for the media to disproportionately report on cases in which white, middle class, often stereotypically 'attractive' women go missing, and devote hours of airtime and thousands of pages to these stories, meanwhile similar cases of men, working class and black (women) people or a combination of them go unreported.

There is much statistical evidence to back this up, and just as an example from the PDF article I linked, 'news treatments of child abductions in the USA show a particularly glaring bias in favour of cases featuring young white females: between 2000 and 2005, 76 per cent of child abductions featured on CNN News between 2000 and 2005 were white children, although only 53 per cent of abductees are white'.

Even without such evidence, just reading and watching the news will highlight this phenomenon. Tell me, in the last ten years, how many high profile stories do you remember of black women, men or working class people going missing that made national or international news? And if they did, I guarantee you there were open dialogues about those people's lifestyles, backgrounds, and how much of a role they or their family and friends played in their disappearance. That's because ~things like this don't happen to people like us~, case in point: the McCann's VS Shannon Matthews. Not too far away in time from each other, the former's parents overwhelmingly showered in sympathy by the press (yes the tide may have turned of late but the media still adores them), meanwhile Matthews' parents, town, home life were immediately brought into question - and why? Because she was unfortunate enough not to have been brought up by two middle class doctors. It is irrelevant how her case ended up, the immediate reporting by certain sections of the press was a stark difference from how Maddie's case was presented.

I don't know why I bothered to create this response because I'm sure someone will respond with 'bleeding heart loony liberal lefty scummy communist nonsense' but I'm afraid it's a real problem. Hopefully, if nothing else, it will make someone think.

The media just reflect the appetite of joe public, jack

[Jason.]

Originally Posted by Jack_

The point was in my initial post and the links I provided, but in summary 'missing white girl/woman syndrome' refers to a tendency for the media to disproportionately report on cases in which white, middle class, often stereotypically 'attractive' women go missing, and devote hours of airtime and thousands of pages to these stories, meanwhile similar cases of men, working class and black (women) people or a combination of them go unreported.

There is much statistical evidence to back this up, and just as an example from the PDF article I linked, 'news treatments of child abductions in the USA show a particularly glaring bias in favour of cases featuring young white females: between 2000 and 2005, 76 per cent of child abductions featured on CNN News between 2000 and 2005 were white children, although only 53 per cent of abductees are white'.

Even without such evidence, just reading and watching the news will highlight this phenomenon. Tell me, in the last ten years, how many high profile stories do you remember of black women, men or working class people going missing that made national or international news? And if they did, I guarantee you there were open dialogues about those people's lifestyles, backgrounds, and how much of a role they or their family and friends played in their disappearance. That's because ~things like this don't happen to people like us~, case in point: the McCann's VS Shannon Matthews. Not too far away in time from each other, the former's parents overwhelmingly showered in sympathy by the press (yes the tide may have turned of late but the media still adores them), meanwhile Matthews' parents, town, home life were immediately brought into question - and why? Because she was unfortunate enough not to have been brought up by two middle class doctors. It is irrelevant how her case ended up, the immediate reporting by certain sections of the press was a stark difference from how Maddie's case was presented.

I don't know why I bothered to create this response because I'm sure someone will respond with 'bleeding heart loony liberal lefty scummy communist nonsense' but I'm afraid it's a real problem. Hopefully, if nothing else, it will make someone think.

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[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Alf

Just get to the point. You'll like me dead.