DAMSELS IN DISTRESS....Last June, a black woman named Tamika Huston was reported missing by her family. USA Today picks up the story from there:
Rebkah Howard, Huston's aunt and a public relations professional in Miami, tried to get the national media interested in the case. "I spent three weeks calling the cable networks, calling newspapers even yours," Howard said this week.
Not much happened.
...."It's stunning sometimes how hard it is to get the national media interested when it's a minority," [said Philip Lerman, co-executive producer of America's Most Wanted and a former editor at USA Today.]
Good for USA Today for writing about this. Maybe eventually this kind of publicity will embarrass the cable folks into finding something else to fill their airtime.
UPDATE: Tamika Huston's uncle emails to pass along the following two sites where you can get more information about her:
—Kevin Drum 2:06 AM
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