is the news covering her cause she's white, or is it cause she was attractive and had a vlog with a huge amount of material that makes it easy to humanize her?
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All of the above. That she's female, white, and attractive, and that there's public video (the video of officers talking to her even) all contribute. Of each of these, I think it's in the order of: public video, female, attractive, white.
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id bet you that if all else were the same and her skin were just darker, this case would still be getting the same level of interest
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Those plus the weird circumstances of dude driving home and his refusal to cooperate.
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also van life is a neat niche human interest angle that's recently become more popular
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please, we only deal in monocausal, moralistic explanations of human behaviour here
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Its either that or talk about the boring government default that may happen next month.
Financial articles and politics are boring anyways:
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why are people just now realizing people latch onto cases of "true crime" where this is a ton of material to look at?
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Both. Missing White Girl stories are catnip for cable nets as they draw viewers. This one has the added vlog bonus.
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