Thursday, June 09, 2005
ugly babies need the most love!
i'm currently reading "under the banner of heaven" which deals with fundamentalist mormons, including brian david mitchell, the man who abducted elizabeth smart. i wanted to find out a little bit more about the case, so i looked up the young abductee's wikipedia entry. in the entry there was a bit of editorializing about the media's tendency to only publicize the abductions of white children. however, according the the wikipedia, ethnic-types aren't the only ones who are ignored:
"Some advocates have raised objections to the media tendency to focus so much attention on pretty, Caucasian, blonde, blue-eyed girls like Smart when so many other missing children do not receive the same level of media coverage. Media critics charged that a black, Asian, Latino, male, or even ugly child would not have had any national media exposure after the first 24 hours."
"Some advocates have raised objections to the media tendency to focus so much attention on pretty, Caucasian, blonde, blue-eyed girls like Smart when so many other missing children do not receive the same level of media coverage. Media critics charged that a black, Asian, Latino, male, or even ugly child would not have had any national media exposure after the first 24 hours."
# posted by Sweatpants Money : 6/09/2005 05:43:00 PM
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I agree. I guess that baby I saw out at the Hamptons that weekend, the one the cute doctor declared "breathtaking," would have nobody looking for him if he went missing. Yeah, that's a shame. I personally thought he was a "snuggly" baby, I swear, I didn't call him ugly. At least I finally saw the baby, because I was SICK of hearing, "Elaine! Ya GOTTA see the BABY!"
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