[HitmanLV]

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.

No doubt this is true.

[fatnotlazy]

"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."

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I've been hearing about this story for some time, so I don't think it was "obscure" for very long.

[flashbunny]

Here's the requirements for media coverage in a dissapearance case.

1. Be white
2. Be female
3. Be attractive
4. Be somewhere the media wants to go (e.g, Aruba)

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Speaking of missing women, what ever became of Chandra Levy?
9/11 happened and the Condit/Levy story just went away.

[Phantom Lord]

For the life of me I can not figure out why Natalee Holloway is getting the she is getting. There has not been a development or any new information on the case is better than 60 days, yet it is still getting wall to wall coverage.

I actually do know the answer. Ratings are through the roof on shows about her. Greta is the top audience getter now. That confounds me even more.

[End Times Sentinel]

I guess a couple of things come to mind here.  Primarily, it's not the lack of media coverage in the Figeroa case or even the disparity of coverage between that and the Holloway case.  It's just that there's WAY TOO FRIGGIN' MUCH coverage of the Holloway case.  I mean, by now, it's a miracle that even the Holloway family hasn't gotten sick and tired of this.

 

It hit the saturation point after about three days.  And yet on and on it goes.  I can't believe that the producers at FOX News are letting Gretta continue this extended Aruba vacation, but it's an open joke.

 

Just incase anyone was wondering, Natalee Holloway got doesed with GHB by the Vandersloop kid, had a bad reaction and died.  He burried her and told his dad.  The next day, Dad hired some scum bag to dig her up and dump her body out at sea.  They'll never find it. 

Figeroa was killed by her boyfriend and he dumped her weighted body in the Delaware river north of Wilmington.

 

Owl_Eagle

(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,

 it was probably sarcasm)

[Mathews]

The bloggers net name is "Richard Cranium?" Cute. Get it? Richard Cranium = Dick Head! Get it? Get it? HA ha ha. Gotta love those guys. Seriously though... I agree that only the disappearances of pretty white women get picked up by the MSM. Heard a story out of Mexico not too long ago about a whole bunch or minority women that simply vanished into thin air. A very brief story.

[LoudRepublicangirl]

I have to agree with this. During the first days of the Iraq war when Jessica Lynch was rescued the national media was obsessed with her story. In the meantime we had another woman(Shoshanna Johnson) who was in her unit who was being held captive along with a few of her male soldiers and we only heard a little about her. The woman was black and I guess the media sadly assumed we were not as interested in her. The sad part is even her Iraqi captors made the observation that she is a very strong woman. Our own media did not give her any kudos. And I have not heard of Shoshanna complaining about this either. I feel proud that Shoshanna represented what is best about this country even in the difficult position she was in no matter what the media wanted to force down our throats.

[jocon307]

Here's an interesting part, more important it seems to me that how much media coverage this story is or is not getting.

"The last person known to have seen Ms. Figueroa was Stephen Poaches, 25, the father of her baby. Mr. Poaches has refused to take part in the search."

I mean, how suspicious is that? Refused to take part in the search, I wonder what "reason" he gives for that. And isn't it true that in most of these cases the father of the baby is the killer? I don't see why they need news coverage, it looks like the prime suspect is right under their noses, granted, that didn't stop the media in the Peterson case.

[rabidralph]

This is a heartbreaking case but I wish people would give more coverage to that girl who went missing in Aruba. Maybe some extra publicity will help shed light on what happened to her.