Stop The Presses...Another Missing Pretty White Girl!

Natalee Holloway, 18, of Mountain Brook, Alabama, has gone missing in Aruba [link]. Hundreds of FBI, local police, and private citizens have been mobilized in the search.

This is a terrible catastrophy, yet does it really deserve the kind of national attention it is sure to get? After Laci Peterson, Jennifer Wilbanks, and several others, it is clear. Americans love to see stories about Pretty White Women. Or at least the major news outlets really love to cover them. They are much nicer to look at than dead women and children in Iraq.