If you ever go missing - you better make sure your attractive.

Over the summer I started following the story about a missing Indiana University student named Lauren Spierer.  Lauren Spierer, of Greenburgh New York, was just 20 years old when she disappeared June 3 after a night of partying with friends.  There have been a lot of conspiracy theories that she either diagnosed on coke and her boyfriend/friends hid the body or that she was, sadly, abducted.  While following this story over the summer, I became intrigued by how the media was dealing with the story and how the public was reacting.  Many people believed that Lauren Sperier was receiving more attention because she was a beautiful, wealthy, white, blue eyed girl.  The public also persisted to say that there was another girl that went missing four months ago and she did not even get nearly as much attention as Lauren Sperier was receiving. She was African American, not as attractive, and had no education. But why do any of those stop her from receiving the same attention as Lauren Spierer did?  She is still human and missing - but the media decided not to pay any attention to the story.  Throughout the case, I kept a clear head and just listened to people's opinions rather than agree with them.  I denied the fact that Lauren Sperier received all of this attention because of her looks up until last week.  Almost two weeks ago a 19 year old girl named Amanda Bach, from Indiana, went missing. Like Spierer, she white, goodlooking and wealthy. She was found a few days ago, near rail road traicks, with a gun shot wound to her throat.  Her ex-boyfriend is currently being charged with murdering her.  Simliar to Spierer, many Facebook pages were created in memory of Amanda Bach.  Many of the posts said, "How could someone murder someone so beautiful?" or "She was too beautiful to leave. I will miss her beautiful smile " or the worst, "Why couldn't he kill someone ugly?" Why must society soley focus on just her physical appearance?  What about the fact that her family will never see her again or that she will never be able to finish college?  Or that she will never be able to grow into an adult and live out her dreams? The fact that the media is able to pick and choose what missing person case they want to focus on is like choosing life or death for someone they never even met.  It is pathetic.  People need to start taking notice of this and see that every missing person that is reported on the news is either attractive or the family has a lot of money.  The media is ignoring missing-person cases involving men or people of certain ethnicities - it is like they want people to rescue the "damsel in distress" from the villian. Open your eyes and see the missing person cases that the media reports on. It's shocking, disgusting and it's all for ratings.