Why is it that when a big city school has a shooting it is not reported as much as Columbine?

why is it that kids in middle white America get more news coverage... same thing with missing women, It seems to me that only cute white women go missing, I guess black and latino women don't leave the house without a map and a compass

Why is it that when a big city school has a shooting it is not reported as much as Columbine?
Do you listen to Eminem? He has a song, "The Way I Am," where he raps:





"When a dude's gettin' bullied and shoots up his school


And they blame it on Marilyn [Manson]


And on heroin


Where were the parents at? And look where it's at:


Middle America, NOW it's a tragedy, NOW it's so sad to see


An upper-class city havin' this happenin' ..."





The long and short of it is that the media makes a bigger deal about it because people will watch. Have you heard the saying that "sex sells"? It's not just about selling products; it's about selling news. Cute blond girls make for better viewing than cute black girls (or for that matter ugly white girls), because that's what "society" -- or more specifically, PR executives -- decide is beauty. The news isn't about telling you what's going on in the world, unfortunately. Today, the news is about selling advertising. News stations need to sell advertising to make money; advertisers will only put ads on stations that people watch; this forces "news" stations to go out and "target" a "demographic" as if they were selling a pair of jeans.





There was a story near Pittsfield, MA, about some rich white kids that got caught selling drugs. All the parents are up in arms -- "oh, he's such a good kid," "the laws are too harsh," "we should go easy on them." Of course, no one was saying that for years when the black kids in the city (Pittsfield) were the ones getting arrested for drug crimes!





The sad truth is that what happens to rich people, attractive people, and white people, gets more attention that what happens to poor people, unattractive people, and non-whites. If you're rich, attractive, AND white, you're virtually guaranteed front-page news!





There used to be a time when the news was about informing the public. Now it's just a commodity. Our "news" -- what we would like to think of as truth -- is just a commodity, to be bought and sold. How sad.
Reply:Crime-riddled inner cities are often called "dead zones" by police and journalists. Police don't patrol, journalists don't report--it just happens everyday, and they don't think they can do anything about it. In fact, they're the people who are supposed to do something about it!





When I was in J-school, my newspaper advisor was a former newspaper editor in a rough city. Back when he was editor, he started reporting on all the crimes happening in that city's "dead zone," and the public ended up basically demanding the police start doing something about it. People started calling that area "New Jack City," after my advisor, Jack, who had led the pack.





I think the better question isn't why does it happen--because it does--it's what can we do about it? What can you do about it?
Reply:Its because Brian Gumball hates blacks.
Reply:we live in an unfair world.
Reply:First of all no other school shooting will be reported like Columbine because that basically made Eric Harris %26amp; Dylan Kleebold (sp) a household name, why make any more of these little freaks a light in the public eye. Second of all, in St. Louis, I see missing black people all the time. There are 2 I can think of off the top of my head that are still trying to be found within the last 6 months. Not sure where you live but maybe you should move if you feel you are being discriminated against.
Reply:Oh that's an easy one, the media and by extension, people watching the media are subconsciously racists. Not overtly, but it exists.