Cleveland abductions: Do white victims get more attention?

[davidmash]

Missing White Woman Syndrome

Berry was abducted in April 2003 and DeJesus a year later. They were children when they vanished, and their families were desperate to find them.

Yet the coverage of their abductions was dramatically different.

In Cleveland, the newspaper stories were mainly about the white girl.
Someone holding a copy of the Cleveland Plain Dealer Reporters for the Cleveland Plain Dealer have covered the abductions for years

In the 10 years Berry was missing, the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper published 36 articles about her, according to a search of electronic news archive Lexis-Nexis.

During the nine-year period that DeJesus, who is Hispanic, was missing, the newspaper published 19 articles about her case.

The coverage of these two cases reflects an overall trend in the media.

I remember when there was all the coverage of Halloway but there was a black girl who was abducted about the same time. I cannot find any information on it now.

According to the FBI, 40% of missing people are not white. You'd never know it from watching the news.