I was over at Atrios and he has posted
this story from local Philly news radio about a young, pregnant, single mom from West Philadelphia, Latoyia Figueroa, missing since Monday. He posted under the headline, "Odds of this Story Showing Up on CNN?" (for the record the odds are slim and none and slim just left town). So I thought, well that's a bit snarky but well-desreved, but I also thought to myself "What are the odds of this story showing up anywhere?" So, I did a quick LexisNexis search to see if in fact it turned up anywhere. It didn't. Anywhere. Six days later.
More below the fold.
But then I did a few more searches. Here are the results:
LexisNexis search in "News, all (English)" database for "Latoyia Figueroa," a 24 year old non-white pregnant woman from West Philadephia missing since Monday for the dates July 18, 2005, the last time she was seen, to July 23, 2005, six days later:
0 hits
LexisNexis search in the "News, all (English)" database for "Natalee Holloway," a young white girl from Alabama missing in Aruba, for the dates May 31, 2005, the last time Natalee was seen to June 5, 2005, five days later:
113 hits
LexisNexis search in the "News, all (English)" database for "Jennifer Wilbanks," the 32 year old white "runaway bride" for the dates April 26, 2005, the date she was last seen to April 28, 2005, the day before they found her:
52 hits
LexisNexis search in "News, all (English)" database for "Laci Peterson," a missing young pregnant white woman from Modesto, California, for the dates December 24, 2002, the last time she was seen, to December 29, 2005, six days later:
24 hits
I know CNN is the Where the White Women At Network but the total lack of coverage ANYWHERE really astounds me. WTF?