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
Yup. But that take is too honest for grifters and liberals who want to make everything about race.
Pretty people (of all races) are interesting, international finance, refugee crises, and macroeconomics are not.
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I understand why you think that. But black people have it a lot more difficult in America than whites even today, and it's difficult for whites to see that sometimes, so if a black person (e.g., Joy Reid) says something about race relations, I give it a lot of credibility.
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not nearly the same coverage.
someone else made this point except using black men
ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/ezash
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nah it would be a little less. theres a lot of racist media outlets that wouldnt cover it if it was a minority couple.
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If she was darker and and all else the same including the same white partner, would the American mainstream media frame it as a racist crime and play that angle?