Thursday, June 14, 2007

MISSING BLACK WOMAN IN FLORIDA..PEOPLE LET'S FIND HER!!! CNN,FOX,NBC.DON'T CARE..WE DO!!

u still don't know about Stepha Henry ...

Updated on Wednesday at 6:19 p.m. ET: Click here for the latest posting related to this case.

Stephahenry Stepha Henry is still missing. But since yesterday, Google News has indexed just three stories that mention the 22-year-old black New Yorker who disappeared two weeks ago in Miami.

During the same period, the site found 525 stories that mentioned Kelsey Smith, the white girl who was kidnapped and killed in Kansas, and 6,581 news stories that mentioned "Paris Hilton," the celebrity who is famous for being famous. (Even Natalee Holloway, the Alabama girl who went missing in Aruba two years ago, earned more mentions than Henry.)

WABC-TV, one of the few news outlets that appears to be covering the case, reports that Henry's parents have traveled to Florida in search of their daughter. "Stepha, I love you very much, and you know I need you home," Sylvia Henry tells the ABC affiliate. "And I would like you to please, if you could even talk, wherever you are, tell someone to call your mother or call someone and we'll come get you."

Detectives in Miami-Dade say she was last seen inside a night club, and telephone records indicate that she last checked her voicemail at 4:13 a.m. on May 29. They are looking for a man in a black car who may have come in contact with Henry around the time she was last seen.

As we reported last week, MSNBC canceled segments on the Henry case in favor of wall-to-wall coverage of the Hilton saga that was then unfolding in Hollywood.

This raises an age-old question: Why do some people get more coverage than others? John Ridley thinks he knows the answer: "We've gotta tread carefully here because race is not a factor in the cases of these women gone missing. But race clearly is a factor to the media and in regard to the news they chose to report."

Almost two years ago, USA TODAY's Mark Memmott -- yes, the same intrepid reporter who writes On Politics -- reported on this phenomenon in a piece entitled "Spotlight skips cases of missing minorities."

The National Center for Missing Adults has statistics and other information.

(Despite our best efforts, there's no photo with this posting because we couldn't find one in the feeds we receive from the Associated Press, Reuters, Bloomberg News, AFP, Getty Images or EPA.)

Update at 2:46 p.m. ET: We've obtained the above photograph from the Miami-Dade Police Department. America's Most Wanted has added Henry to its website, and a producer tells On Deadline they may end up featuring her case on the next edition of the show. You can submit a tip here.

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