..."Missing White Women Syndrome"? Missing white woman syndrome (MWWS) is a vernacular term for the disproportionately greater degree of coverage in television, radio, and print news reporting of a missing person case involving a young, attractive, middle or upper middle class white woman, compared with cases concerning a missing male, or missing persons of other races or classes.The essential features of a missing person said to give rise to Missing White Woman Syndrome are sex, race or ethnicity, social class, (relative) prettiness, and age. These features are said to provoke discrimination in the reporting as news of the disappearance of a young white woman, and so to increase public interest in her disappearance. Criticism of this apparent phenomenon is sometimes accompanied by suggestions, implicit or overt, as to correcting the perceived problem, but the suggestions vary greatly.
As we've seen countless times again with the constant airing of the
Caylee Anthony story
Nathalie Holloway story
JonBenét Ramsey
Laci Peterson Murders
Lori Hacking Murders
As we've seen countless times again with the constant airing of the
Caylee Anthony story
Nathalie Holloway story
JonBenét Ramsey
Laci Peterson Murders
Lori Hacking Murders