14 cheerleaders

[mookie2001]

can you imagine if 14 rich, white, blonde cheerleaders from the suburbs were killed in one incident?
the news coverage?
it would be the story of the century
a new cable news network would have to be formed for all the coverage
fox news every fucking day has 12 hours of Natalee Holliway news, her
school volleyball coach, her neighbors...
its sickening
it sends a horrible message to kids, soldiers and every american
if my dad dies tommorrow from a bomb, nobody would know his name
why?
how?
if a young, rich, blonde girl goes missing in a tropical destination the cable news creams all over themselves
bullshit

[190 Octane]

Cable television news is bogus. They don't draw much of a line between information and entertainment. With this Natalee Hollowell thing, they've got a young, attractive girl in a tropical paradise missing in a sordid affair. They air it because it's like an episode of The OC.

[Big Pimp_21]

On a semi-related topic...I HATE NANCY GRACE.

[Swishy McJackass]

Yeah, she is pretty fucking annoying.

[Cant_Be_Faded]

i bet jochhehhejamm would try to find some way to twist it into an excuse to justify Bush's decisions and the war

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

Well, when there's no tidal waves, hurricanes, earthquakes, wildfires, volcano eruptions, etc., they gotta talk about something...

[Duff McCartney]

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[Spam]

Damn, Duff that is just wrong.

[JoeChalupa]

I feel guilty when I hear another report about her and I yell "enough already!" at the TV.

[Cant_Be_Faded]

as long as the "liberal media" keeps trying to tempt Real Women (and husbands et al) into thinking their children are at serious risk to beign kidnapped and need to be implanted with tracking devices, its all good

[Nbadan]

Nothing speaks clearer about the corporate media bias toward attractive white women than the disapperance case of Latoyia Figueroa..


After weeks of frustrating obscurity, the case of Mr. Figueroa's daughter, Latoyia Figueroa, 25, has finally captured the national news media's attention, spurred by the persistent nudging of Philadelphia-based Web logs and a city councilman distantly related to the Figueroas.

In the process, the case has become a flashpoint for the growing unease in minority communities across the country about the way they believe many national news outlets focus relentlessly on missing white women, while giving little attention to equally compelling stories involving poorer minority women.

"Certainly, everybody hopes that they find out what happened to Natalee Holloway in Aruba and to all the other missing young women," said Juan F. Ramos, the city councilman, as he handed out leaflets on the teeming corner of 52nd and Market Streets. "But for a while there, you had to wonder: why not Latoyia?"

Ms. Figueroa, who is five months pregnant, was last seen not far from that busy corner around 5 p.m. on July 18, after a doctor's visit. She lived with her 7-year-old daughter, to whom friends said she was devoted. She had a solid work record at a Center City restaurant. Neither her credits cards nor her cellphone have been used since she disappeared.

NY Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/07/national/07missing.html)

[jochhejaam]

Nothing speaks clearer about the corporate media bias toward attractive white women than the disapperance case of Latoyia Figueroa..



NY Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/07/national/07missing.html)


Right or wrong, corporate media has a bias towards profit.


http://www.tatteredcoat.com/archives/2005/07/29/latoyia-figueria-the-search-and-the-questions-continue/

^^^^^^^BTW, Latoyia isn't white.

Okay, I understand the post, Dans saying she didn't get the exposure because she wasn't white.

[JoePublic]

Right or wrong, corporate media has a bias towards profit.


http://www.tatteredcoat.com/archives/2005/07/29/latoyia-figueria-the-search-and-the-questions-continue/

^^^^^^^BTW, Latoyia isn't white.

Which is why she's not gettting 24/7 coverage like Natallee Hollowell.

[jochhejaam]

Which is why she's not gettting 24/7 coverage like Natallee Hollowell.


Could be...I think there's a little more to it than that but I have to go "krogering" so I'll save my thoughts for later. :lol

[Cant_Be_Faded]

Right or wrong, corporate media has a bias towards profit.


http://www.tatteredcoat.com/archives/2005/07/29/latoyia-figueria-the-search-and-the-questions-continue/

^^^^^^^BTW, Latoyia isn't white.

Okay, I understand the post, Dans saying she didn't get the exposure because she wasn't white.


no shit genius, that was the entire point of nbadan's post

if she was white, she'd be talked about 500% more
if she was rich, she'd be talked about 24/7 like that stupid rich ho who is missing

[Cant_Be_Faded]

screw the number 14
if ~1800 rich, white, cheerleaders from suburban Dallas area all died over a 3 or 4 year period, i wonder what would happen then

its difficult to speculate because i know by saying these things I'm being anti-marine and anti-war