Earlier this week, Joy Reid addressed the media coverage surrounding the disappearance and subsequent death of Gabby Petito. Reid cried foul, insinuating racism played a role in the discrepancies in media coverage for missing white women compared to missing non-white women. She used the term “missing white woman syndrome” to describe this phenomenon.
If only Reid had her own show in which she could have a platform to bring awareness to any missing person she wanted. Except, that is exactly what Reid has. So, why isn’t Reid talking about them on her own show, The ReidOut?
“The way this story captivated the nation,” Reid told her viewers, “has many wondering why not the same media attention when people of color go missing? Well, the answer actually has a name: Missing White Woman Syndrome, the term coined by the late and great Gwen Ifill to describe the media and public fascination with missing white women like Laci Peterson or Natalee Holloway while ignoring cases involving of people of color.”
Pot meet kettle?
It took me 3.7 seconds to Google and enter “FBI missing women” in the search bar before being directed to the list of people. Surely, someone as seasoned in the media as Reid is sophisticated enough to do that herself, no? And it gets even better — if one clicks on the picture, the FBI will actually provide the details of each case. In less than 4 seconds, Reid can find out the details of any missing woman of color she chooses and talk about it on her show. But, sadly, she chooses not to do so. It is more important for Reid to whine about a “problem” than to do anything about it. We all know liberal Democrats believe in big government making decisions for them, but one would think Reid could handle this on her own.
But the reason why Reid doesn’t do so is because, in reality, Reid doesn’t care. She would rather curse the darkness than light a candle.
On the FBI page for missing persons, of the first 16 pictures listed, eight of them appear to be people of color. I can almost guarantee Reid doesn’t know any of their names. Moreover, Reid has an audience size of over 1 million people. This means five nights a week, she can inform 1 million people about any missing woman of color she wants to, but she chooses not to do so.
I would like to see the media bring attention to every missing person in the way they did with Petito. The fact that these people are missing is tragic. However, what’s even more tragic is for someone to claim to be so concerned about such tragedies yet won’t spend less than 4 seconds to bring awareness of these people to over a million people five times a week.
Reid doesn’t care about missing women of color. She only cares about the revenues generated from pretending to act like she does.
