WWDOTN Syndrome

[Grelf]

I didn't want to hijack thew0rld.com thread with this, so I'll make a new topic.

I'm getting so damn tired of the WWDOTN Syndrome. White Woman Dead On The News. One finishes up, another starts.

Yay, another dead white woman. Out of 8 a day*. The sad truth is, 8 women die a day, but yet the media only picks one pretty white girl to have a field day over. And when that one is played out, they pick another. It's getting rather tiresome.

Now that Peterson is done, hopefully they'll concentrate on something other then the one white girl out of the girls who get murdered.



*: FBI 2003 Records show 3215 murdered women in that year. Hence, 8.8 a day. of those 3215 women, 1927 of them were white, 1113 of them were black.

[Dark Vengeance]

Pretty dead white woman = ratings.

Attractive women find it tragic because they identify with the victim (i.e. it could have been me), unattractive women find it tragic because they can appreciate her beauty (i.e. wish I could look like that, she was pretty), and men find it tragic because they see it as a waste of a hot chick (i.e. goddamnit, I would have hit that).

This is the reason you get months of coverage for Laci Peterson, but almost no coverage for the 240 pound black woman who lives in the hood and got hit by a stray bullet in a drive-by.

Bring the noise.
Cheers.............

[Nebu]

I think this guy had the same thing to say about it.

[Paelos]

Come to Atlanta, I'll guarantee you'll hear a hell of a lot less about white people on the news.

[Merusk]

I think this guy had the same thing to say about it.

Clever twist on an old riff, Nebu.

As DV said, it's ratings.  Ever since O.J. news hasn't bothered to be news in any large sense of the word. It was bad enough prior to that, but now with multiple 24/7 news channels it's just out of hand.  Sensationalism sells, and we've been conditioned such that nothing's more sensational than, "rich woman dies tragicly."

Note I didn't say white, since I expect we'll get a more sensitive 'multi-cultural' approach to exploi.. reporting tragedy as other races move into the majority over the next decade.

[Viin]

At first I thought this thread was about WilWheaton.Net, but no it's about the news. Booooring.