Douglas MacKinnon’s Chicago Tribune Op-Ed | Missing white female alert
May 9, 2005 by Robert
Chicago Tribune | Missing white female alert
Why won’t the media cover missing minority women?
An op-ed by Douglas MacKinnon, press secretary to former U.S. Sen. Bob Dole from 1998 to 2003, was published at chicagotribune.com on May 8, 2005.
This is a great editorial and everyone should read it. Then, write to every major news source: cable, network, print (they all did it, you know) and demand better practices in the future.
Note to the news media–with an emphasis on the cable networks: Enough is enough.
Your continual focus on, and reporting of, missing, young, attractive white women not only demeans your profession but is a televised slap in the face to minority mothers and parents the nation over who search for their own missing children with little or no assistance or notice from anyone.
Good evening, my name is Gustavo Ferrero. Recently I sent an e-mail to Mr. Roy Carson of Vheadlines. What I wrote there might be interesting to Mr. Douglas Mackinnon. What was supposed to be an e-mail, was converted by Mr. Carson into an article in his website. At the end of my text I wrote exactly about Chavez´s fantasy ? to repeat the story of Cuba in our country, including the missile crisis.