Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Missing white woman syndrome" in English language version.
Charlton McIlwain, professor New York University: White women occupy a privileged role as violent crime victims in news media reporting.
There is no polite way to say it, and it is a fact of television news. Media and social critics call the wall-to-wall coverage that seems to swirl around these events, 'Missing White Woman Syndrome'. That was the phrase invoked by Sheri Parks, a professor of American studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, during our interview yesterday.
[Tom Foreman, CNN Correspondent (voice-over)]: Natalee Holloway, Lori Hacking, Taylor Biehl, the list goes on and on. When pretty white females are killed or disappear, media storms follow. So much so that critics have coined a phrase for it. [Parks]: Like everybody else, I call it the missing white woman syndrome.
