Prattling Black Woman Syndrome

Joy Reid, that shrew with her own gossip show on MSNBC, has declared that the media's fascination with 22-year-old Gabby Petito is an example of "Missing White Woman Syndrome." The term was coined by another black female journalist, Gwen Ifill, now deceased, during the era of the Chandra Levy, Lacie Peterson and Natalie Hollaway murders. All of those women were also young, pretty and white. Lacking any imagination whatsoever, on her TV show, The Joyless World of Joyless Joy Reid, she whined,“The way this story captivated the nation has many wondering why not the same media attention when people of color go missing."

Hunting down and stirring up bits of evidence of racism wherever she can find it, Reid seems to miss one fact: The public only knows what the media shares with it! One cannot be captivated by something one has never heard about. For example, here in Portland, Maine one of our own young women, Annaliese Heinig, a beautiful blond with movie-star looks, went missing two years ago on Thanskgiving. Although the search for her made the local news for a few weeks, her story did not graduate to the national stage. Her body was recently found, a fact that was quietly noted in some local papers. 

Apparently our Anneliese, a lone suicide, failed to impress the buzzing vultures at CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC and all the others who feed on the facts of a particular case and decide which ones will sell the most papers, clicks or advertising. It's got to be sexy! There's a man involved! Was she pregnant? Is it juicy and salacious? If none of those things are present, the case will fizzle into nothing; race has nothing to do with it.

Reid, and the long-gone Ifill, are just two examples of how the media feeds the racism story to further their own careers. In Ifill's case she did some fine work and won many awards. With Joyless Reid, however, it's gonna take a lot more than complaining about white people to get respect since she lacks any shred of talent and is ugly to boot. What she does have is a lot of wigs which she changes constantly, so if you're looking for hairstyle ideas you might want to tune in to her show.