CNN Hosts Decry Media Obsession With Missing White Girls (Fact Check: CNN Obsessed With Missing White Girls)

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Network laments 'missing white woman syndrome,' airs
hour-long special report on Gabby Petito case

https://youtu.be/oxeEmfs9EwE

CNN, which fashions itself as a serious journalistic institution, is obsessed
with the case of Gabby Petito, a 22-year-old white woman whose remains were
recently found in Wyoming several weeks after she was reported missing. Her
white boyfriend, Brian Laundrie, has also gone missing after returning from a
road trip alone under suspicious circumstances.

The network's target audience of woke liberals took issue with CNN's
incessant coverage, prompting a number of its anchors to air segments
denouncing "missing white woman syndrome" and the broader media's refusal to
cover similar cases involving people who aren't white. Chief media
correspondent Brian Stelter, for example, interviewed "1619 Project" author
Nikole Hannah-Jones about the racial disparities in news coverage.

The performative outrage notwithstanding, it would appear the message hasn't
entirely sunk in. Either that, or CNN is simply more concerned with boosting
its ratings and advertising revenue than it is with taking meaningful steps
to promote equity in journalism. On Friday, for example, CNN aired an hour-
long special report on "Gabby Petito and the Hunt for Justice" to give its
viewers a primetime dose of "missing white woman."

CNN's almost comical level of hypocrisy is just another example of how the
media continue to validate the public's widespread distrust for mainstream
journalism, which has fallen to near historic lows.

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