The Media's Focus on the Negative

If we lose the war against kidnappers and sexual predators, we’ll have the media to blame. Every day, literally thousands of young white women and girls in quiet suburban and exurban towns attend school, soccer practice, and church and nothing bad happens to them. Nonetheless, the media only pays attention to the white girls who go missing. This not only paints an inaccurate picture of the situation facing white girls, but it also causes Americans to become needlessly pessimistic and prone to cutting and running, undermining our fight against those who prey upon our nation’s females of good, Aryan stock.

When Natalee Holloway, a young white girl from the real-America state of Alabama, went missing in Aruba last summer, the media storm was massive. Cable news channels gave round-the-clock coverage of the affair, with both CNN and Fox routinely overemphasizing the tragedy. Fox’s Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity were the worst, consistently leading with the story and focusing on it relentlessly. What pundits such as O’Reilly and Hannity did not do, however, was report just how many white girls from Alabama did not go missing in Aruba that summer.

Indeed, many other young women from Natalee’s graduating class spent the summer engaged in wholesome Christian activities, doing so in complete safety. Many of these girls were just as young and Caucasian as Natalee, but the media completely ignored their stories. These girls not only attended freshly re-built and painted schools, but also attended them unveiled. Some even turned 18 that year, and gained the opportunity to ritualistically color their fingers purple. But what did Sean Hannity have to say about this? Not a single peep. The media is simply unwilling to dig up positive stories about unharmed white women.

Sadly, the Holloway case is not the only one the media has obsessed over. The media’s negative reporting on the conditions of young white women was seen when similarly well-bred white women and girls such as Laci Peterson, Jennifer Wilbanks, and Elizabeth Smart went missing, to name just a few. Despite the high-profile coverage of the suffering faced by such suburban lasses, I can assure you that the majority of white women were not, in fact, kidnapped and harmed during the same time frame.

The fact that media figures such as Bill O’Reilly give such prominent, negative coverage to the few white women who go missing seriously weakens our fight against predators. There is little to explain this kind of biased coverage, other than pure, simple hatred of young white women. If only Bill O’Reilly would report that over half of our nation’s white girls were not abducted in the past few years, we would not be facing such out-of-control kidnappings. History will record that the war against abductors of young women was not lost by those on the ground fighting it, but rather by a hateful media that secretly rooted for their failure.