The Vanishings.
"A damsel must be white. This requirement is nonnegotiable. It helps if her frame is of dimensions that breathless cable television reporters can credibly describe as 'petite,' and it also helps if she's the kind of woman who wouldn't really mind being called 'petite,' a woman with a good deal of princess in her personality...Put all this together, and you get 24-7 coverage." The Post's Eugene Robinson deconstructs the "Damsel in Distress" genre so beloved by today's newsmedia. Obviously, if a friend or family member disappeared under strange circumstances, I might want some degree of media coverage in order to help find her. But, the amount of round-the-clock national attention devoted to these sad stories (and rubbernecking drek like the Michael Jackson trial) is patently ridiculous. Hey, don't look now, but our nation is at war right now.
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If my child was lost in combat in Iraq, I'd be outraged that so much attention was paid to the Michael Jackson trial while there was almost a deafening silence as to what was occurring in Bush's war.