"Television's Structural Biases on Display...."

Andrew Cline's Rhetorica has received a makeover. He recently raised an interesting point:

A good example of the structural biases of television news may be seen in the handling of the Elizabeth Smart disappearance versus the more than 100 missing children in the Florida Department of Children & Families case. Smart's case saturates the news. The Florida case does not.

It seems to me that a case like these is more likely to get saturation coverage the more the child fits the description cute, white, middle- or upper-class, blonde girl.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Sun. 06/16/02 01:20:13 PM
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