Validated by the Media... um, Yay?

As I mentioned in my June 11th entry, I thought it was a bit telling that the missing rich white girl from Alabama was getting such an avalanche of media attention. Apparently, someone who actually works for the media agreed with me and wrote a tidy little article about it. Almost laughably, however, they spelled the minority victim's name wrong by her picture. Kinda of pathetic that a story that carries on about the injustice of minority victims getting far less media coverage than their lily-white counterparts would put a face with the story, and then proceed spell it wrong in the photo caption. [Edited to point out that they apparently caught their little faux pas in the USA Today article referenced here... it's been corrected.]

Still pretty gratifying being right about the whole thing. The moral of the story? Be pretty, be white, and be female and get murdered, kidnapped... or hell, just get cold feet about your wedding, and the media will beat a path to your story. (And just to prove this point, see this MSNBC article which says that the aforementioned "runaway bride" Jennifer Wilbanks has sold the rights to her "story" to a media firm. She chickened out of her wedding and faked her own abduction. Really, what's left to tell? And does anyone truly care that much?)