More Missing White People obsession bashing…
Tim Goodman in the San Francisco Chronicle, makes an appeal to Van Susteren, Grace, and Cosby…
Nancy, Rita, Greta — we need you here, now, in S.F. We have a story of our own, and it’s heartbreaking.
Just the idea of saying these words makes me want to gargle on my own acid reflux. It goes against logic and decency and a litany of past columns, but here goes: It’s time for Nancy Grace and Rita Cosby and Greta Van Susteren — the Sirens of Sad Stories — to come to San Francisco.
Now.
Though it might require a jackhammer to pry them off of Natalee Holloway, the young white woman missing in Aruba, or George Smith, the young white man gone missing from his honeymoon cruise, or any number of suburban housewives who may torturously kill their own children — 24-hour news channels always remind us of death at every turn — there’s an extremely heartbreaking story right here in San Francisco.
From the title, I thought maybe he was talking about the fact that white people, too, were actually victims of Hurricane Katrina. And did anyone know that it was not just New Orleans, but thousands of acres of Louisiana and Mississippi that were devastated? /(sarcasm off)
True, Natalee and now George Smith have been overplayed by Greta, Nancy and Rita, and Mr. Goodman is certainly not the first person to write of this. But it was apparently a better story to focus on the poor blacks of N.O. when Katrina hit instead of showing the mass destruction of the gulf coast area and the non-blacks that were also devastated by the hurricane. And what about those in Mississippi who are still living in tents, after almost five months. Why doesn’t anyone write about that?
Comment by Missy — January 25, 2006 @ 10:50 am
Mr. Goodman should fill up a column with “newsworthy” things rather than waste space attempting to slam hosts. BTW, Grace covered the Holloway case last night after about 3 months…
Comment by anonymous — January 25, 2006 @ 7:01 pm
So what’s the sad story in Frisco? Are the trying to close all the million dollar penthouses where all the homeless gays are being put up? OOOHHH! That is SAD!
Comment by Roger C. — January 26, 2006 @ 3:20 pm
Roger, don’t be an ass.
I think Goodman’s column was GREAT. And about TIME.
And I don’t know about anyone else, but I do see coverage of homeless white people in the hurricane-struck regions…when I see any at all.
Comment by tanne — January 29, 2006 @ 6:27 pm