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Friday, April 11, 2008

CBS story on racial disparities in media coverage of missing/abused women

I was pleasantly surprised to see this is a CBS story:

Murdered Pregnant Women: The Racial Divide:

"Cases of maternal homicide involving minority women are underreported and underpublicized"

And by the way, that link goes to a blog called Black and Missing!! which is linked to down there under Tamika Huston's picture (whose link is dead by the way, I'll have to fix that.  The site that was dedicated to publicizing her disappearance later reported on her death and had lots of resources on taking action to change this.  Now the domain name's up for sale.)

Could this be a sign we're having an influence on mainstream media?  That they've started taking these stories seriously I think is thanks to the work of all the great bloggers out there who've repeatedly put stories like this in the spotlight.  Many of them are listed in my blogroll.  Check them out!

 

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I know! I was very excited to see an email from the reporter that wrote the story. What's funny was the fact that I did not ask them nor did they ask me if they can put up a link to my blog in the article.

She just emailed me like "I linked to your site in the article I wrote today." It was weird, but great because, now we can see that we don't even have to pressure them as much as we used to just to get them to write a story on missing minorities.

We still have a while to go, but that one sentence with my link speak volumes. Hopefully this is the start of bigger and better things for our missing and abused women!

Wow, yes, this is great news. I've long been dismayed by the Missing White Girl Syndrome as well, so here's hoping that CBS's story helps to counter that too. I'm sure the blogosphere is having an influence on the corporate media. And sometimes, its worker-bees are so stuck in a mindset that they just need to be snapped into alertness. A steady cyber-roar can do that.

Macon D

http://stuffwhitepeopledo.blogspot.com/

Stumbled across your blog today and this post made me happy. Missing white girl syndrome is not just a fascination for me, it's actually going to be the subject of my master's thesis, because I'm just that big of a nerd.

anyway, glad to see another like-minded lady out there, as always.

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