Fla Ping
Nicely done! Did you cc the managing editor?
It is, of course, W's fault.
Back in the day CNN was the only 24/7 news channel around. Why would they cover this when they were fawning over the new co-presidents (not to mention the story of Reno burning babies in Waco).
Maybe lesbians are discriminated against, but not gay men. For example, one guy who was killed (Shepherd? Montana?) was on news again and again while a little boy torture murdered about the same time got scant attention. There wasn't even too much coverage about the torture/murder spree of the Carr brothers, which involved attractive, white victims.
It seemed to me that victims who are boys, white or minority, often are ignored.
This reminded me, and I just checked. None of my older Asian lesbians are missing.
Bravo!
IMHO... 'gays' get too much MSM attention... especially where I'm from!
Do you see the humor in this article? These people report the news! So if they are concerned that the usual victimhood crowd is under-represented then why don't they, the reporters of news, correct the situation?
It is like a sports team coach saying, "My team got their a**es kicked because of poor coaching...hey I'm the coach!"
``The lesson is this: If you're a missing older Asian lesbian, your story probably won't see the light of day,'' says Cynthia Lont, professor of communication at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va."
Is it too Non-PC to muse that an older Asian lesbian is probably not a hot target of sexual predators?
I think it's the "man bites dog" aspect of a story that gets attention. Poor people in poor neighborhoods being victims of crime, is the norm. But a relatively wealthy person in a supposedly safe neighborhood being victimized, is a rarity.
Being attractive helps (let's face it, most top movie stars aren't ugly). And having an articulate spokesman is a must. If you see a guy who looks and sounds like you, talking about how his wife or kid was kidnapped, you're going to start thinking, "Hey, that could happen to me." By the same token and as unfair as it might be, if the relative of the victim looks and sounds like he himself could be a criminal, they're not going to engender much sympathy.
Locally, a retarded kid wandered away from a group visiting local beaches. Police response: whaddaya want us to do about it? Cripes...the Coast Guard is constantly flying that area, you could call the local Sheriff's Posse, or you could put down yer freakin' doughnut and take a walk. A friend of mine was walking his dog in the area and found the kid...the next morning. Alive, at the base of a cliff. Still waiting to hear a peep about it in the local media.
Hard to believe someone this stupid writes for a real newspaper.
Terrible writing displaying the kind of superficial thinking done in a fresman communciations course designed to get an A from the socialist professor.