Hannah Anderson and Alexis Murphy

[DipStick]

I wonder why the national media isn't covering the search for Alexis Murphy, at all... especially given the amount of airtime they've given the Hannah Anderson story.

FBI searches Nelson County neighborhood for missing teen | Local News - Home

(I already know the answer)

 

[cwo_ghwebb]

I wonder why the national media isn't covering the search for Alexis Murphy, at all... especially given the amount of airtime they've given the Hannah Anderson story.

FBI searches Nelson County neighborhood for missing teen | Local News - Home

(I already know the answer)

Yeah, right!

Now you're as bad as Sharpton.

 

[BOP]

Hadn't heard of either one of them.

 

[Ken King]

Do you think it might have to do with the fact that VA State Police didn't issue an Amber Alert for Alexis, thus it isn't a national story only a local one?

VSP Explain Why No Amber Alert will be Issued in Murphy Search - NBC29 WVIR Charlottesville, VA News, Sports and Weather

 

[GURPS]

Hadn't heard of either one of them.

[I am not following the link, making a guess here]

if they are of African Decent, that is dip####s point ..... nobody cares about missing black children

 

[Bay_Kat]

With Hannah, the guy that kidnapped her had killed her mother and brother and set his house on fire with them in it. With Alexis, she went missing in her car, they don't know for a fact that she was abducted, her case didn't meet the criteria for an Amber Alert. Why make this a racial thing?

 

[BOP]

With Hannah, the guy that kidnapped her had killed her mother and brother and set his house on fire with them in it. With Alexis, she went missing in her car, they don't know for a fact that she was abducted, her case didn't meet the criteria for an Amber Alert. Why make this a racial thing?

Anything to make conservatives look bad.

 

[DipStick]

Anything to make conservatives look bad.

Incorrect. My point was that both stories are local/regional news stories that don't merit national coverage and certainly don't merit wall-to-wall, up to the minute "Breaking News" coverage from CNN. But one case got exactly that while another is only getting coverage in the region it should get coverage.

Because the news media can't package and sell the missing black teenager. The pretty white girl, complete with revealing selfies taken on Facebook and Instagram, that can be plastered on the TV in an endless loop cycle brings in more viewers.

 

[DipStick]

Do you think it might have to do with the fact that VA State Police didn't issue an Amber Alert for Alexis, thus it isn't a national story only a local one?

VSP Explain Why No Amber Alert will be Issued in Murphy Search - NBC29 WVIR Charlottesville, VA News, Sports and Weather

What about Daphne Webb?

Amber Alert Case

I can play this game all day and all night. It's indisputable that the missing children stories that usually get national coverage are white teenage girls. It helps if they're attractive. It was common knowledge before the Trayvon Martin case made news and it holds true even after that ... regardless of what elements of the media try to claim.

I just didn't think CNN would prove my point this fast.

 

[Ken King]

What about Daphne Webb?

Amber Alert Case

I can play this game all day and all night. It's indisputable that the missing children stories that usually get national coverage are white teenage girls. It helps if they're attractive. It was common knowledge before the Trayvon Martin case made news and it holds true even after that ... regardless of what elements of the media try to claim.

I just didn't think CNN would prove my point this fast.

What about her? Did her case involve murder, arson, and a potential kidnapping? Does every missing kid deserve the attention given to Hannah, probably. But even you should admit that Hannah's situation was more newsworthy on the whole because of the associated murders and arson.

You need to get beyond your bias and obvious agenda as a race baiter (of which you are becoming a master).

 

[DipStick]

What about her? Did her case involve murder, arson, and a potential kidnapping? Does every missing kid deserve the attention given to Hannah, probably. But even you should admit that Hannah's situation was more newsworthy on the whole because of the associated murders and arson.

You need to get beyond your bias and obvious agenda as a race baiter (of which you are becoming a master).

Does the Hannah Anderson case deserve national coverage? No. But because it involves a missing white girl and was packaged perfectly for a real life version of Law & Order SVU on CNN, we can't deny it's urgent national importance.

Did you hear Obama launched a drone on a school in Yemen last week?

 

[Ken King]

Does the Hannah Anderson case deserve national coverage? No. But because it involves a missing white girl and was packaged perfectly for a real life version of Law & Order SVU on CNN, we can't deny it's urgent national importance.

Did you hear Obama launched a drone on a school in Yemen last week?

Then tell me what type of story deserves national coverage? You profess to be an aspiring journalist and yet you can't admit that the Hannah Anderson had the components of a "spectacular" story that all news agencies seek.

Obama and drones are regular news, he fires them off as often as he vacations, what's your point?

 

[Gilligan]

Does the Hannah Anderson case deserve national coverage?

Umm..isn't that exactly the point behind the entire Amber Alert program???...to raise national; (or at least regional multi-state) awareness when a child goes reported missing?



Answer: Yes..yes it is.

 

[Gilligan]

Did you hear Obama launched a drone on a school in Yemen last week?

That is just part of Barry's focus on transparency.

He has been single-handedly responsible for making more rabid ragheads "instantly transparent" than any other Nobel Peace Prize winner in modern history. "Pink Mist" is about as transparent as ya can get.

 

[Gilligan]

Here is where you can learn about how racism is a fundamental feature of the Amber Alert system.

Or not.


https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/ojjdp/212703.pdf

 

[Gilligan]

That is just part of Barry's focus on transparency.

He has been single-handedly responsible for making more rabid ragheads "instantly transparent" than any other Nobel Peace Prize winner in modern history. "Pink Mist" is about as transparent as ya can get.

I KNEW that nhboy would like this one.

 

[BigBlue]

What about her? Did her case involve murder, arson, and a potential kidnapping? Does every missing kid deserve the attention given to Hannah, probably. But even you should admit that Hannah's situation was more newsworthy on the whole because of the associated murders and arson.

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People also need to get over the thought that they have the right to know everything. Maybe authorities knew something else about the case and realize that maybe "too" much attention might scare the person away or to doing something else. The Police ,FBI ...whomever don't need to tell some DA in St Mary's county what it is he is or isn't doing in an abduction situation in VA .

 

[Gilligan]

The Police ,FBI ...whomever don't need to tell some DA in St Mary's county what it is he is or isn't doing in an abduction situation in VA .

DA?...."District Attorney", right?

 

[DipStick]

Suspect in double homicide, kidnap found; toddler still missing - CBS News

This story isn't the lead story on every national newscast and on every national news site.

Like I said, I can play this game all day.

The Hannah Anderson story got entirely too much coverage - and it wouldn't have if she wasn't an attractive, white female. That was the main ingredient to it's "appeal" to news stations.

 

[Lurk]

I wonder why the national media isn't covering the search for Alexis Murphy, at all... especially given the amount of airtime they've given the Hannah Anderson story.

FBI searches Nelson County neighborhood for missing teen | Local News - Home

(I already know the answer)

I haven't heard of either one. They must be the eye-candy on MSNBC that Andi watches all the time.