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Categories: Sexism, Articles with short description, Race and society, Missing people, Criticism of journalism
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missing white woman syndrome  Missing pretty girl syndrome  Missing white woman  Damsel in distress bias  Damsel in distress effect
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Missing white woman syndrome is a term used by social scientists and media commentators to denote media coverage, especially on television, of missing-person cases involving young, attractive, white, upper middle class women or girls compared to the relative lack of attention towards missing women who were not white, of lower social classes, or of missing men or boys. Wikipedia
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Missing white woman syndrome is a term used by social scientists and media commentators to denote media coverage, especially on television, of missing-person cases involving young, attractive, white, upper middle class women or girls compared to the relative lack of attention towards missing women who were not white, of lower social classes, or of missing men or boys. Wikipedia
Extensive media coverage of missing white women Wikidata
The disproportionate media coverage of a missing person or similar case involving a young, white, upper-middle-class woman, contrasted with lesser coverage of males, non-white ethnicities, etc. Wiktionary