A term coined by the late PBS anchor Gwen Ifill to describe the media’s often lopsided focus on white women and girls when they go missing.
MSNBC host Joy Reid criticized her own industry on her prime-time program, calling the Petito coverage an example of “missing White woman syndrome.”
News anchor suspended in dispute over coverage of Gabby Petito and women of color, report says
According to station sources, KTVU news anchor Frank Somerville, 63, has been “suspended indefinitely” by Channel 2 management after a disagreement with news director Amber Eikel over coverage of the Gabby Petito homicide case.
An ABC News report, citing statistics from the FBI’s National Crime Information Center stated that at the end of 2020, the FBI had more than 89,000 active missing person cases, and 45 percent of those were people of color.
The ABC News report also said that only about one-fifth of missing person cases involving minorities are covered by the news, according to a 2016 analysis published in the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology.
He’s one of the highest paid anchors in the Bay Area, but his contract is up in March.
MSNBC host Joy Reid criticized her own industry on her prime-time program, calling the Petito coverage an example of “missing White woman syndrome.”
News anchor suspended in dispute over coverage of Gabby Petito and women of color, report says
According to station sources, KTVU news anchor Frank Somerville, 63, has been “suspended indefinitely” by Channel 2 management after a disagreement with news director Amber Eikel over coverage of the Gabby Petito homicide case.
An ABC News report, citing statistics from the FBI’s National Crime Information Center stated that at the end of 2020, the FBI had more than 89,000 active missing person cases, and 45 percent of those were people of color.
The ABC News report also said that only about one-fifth of missing person cases involving minorities are covered by the news, according to a 2016 analysis published in the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology.
He’s one of the highest paid anchors in the Bay Area, but his contract is up in March.
