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WASHINGTONStruggling to find an appropriate response to a delicate situation, members of the American news media admitted Tuesday that they remained stumped on how exactly to handle the case of missing mixed-race woman Alison Johnston. On the one hand, shes fairly light-skinned, but on the other, she actually has a black parent, so were really at a loss about what to do here, said USA Today deputy editor Bob Roe, adding that it was entirely up in the air whether to cover the biracial 21-year-olds abduction as a heartbreaking tragedy worthy of national coverage or a run-of-the-mill disappearance deserving a single 200-word brief. I mean, its tough, because if she were 100 percent black, wed obviously just bury her way back on E6. There definitely wouldnt be talk about using her on the front page, you know? But this half-white situation is really making us second-guess everything. Roe went on to say that, in the end, Johnston would probably be young and attractive enough to put her over the top
http://www.theonion.com/articles/media-stumped-on-how-to-handle-missing-mixedrace-w,37231/
uppityperson
(115,679 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)I knew it before I clicked through.
R&K for The Onion.
underpants
(182,877 posts)R&K
Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)You knew before clicking through that it was the Onion, so I'll have to concede you're better at distinguishing the satirists than I am.
Of course, what tips it off as satire is the media spokesperson publicly admitting their thought processes.
pscot
(21,024 posts)is she, or has she ever been, blond?
Rozlee
(2,529 posts)Put her on E6 if she likes J. Cole.
progressoid
(49,999 posts)Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Thank you, iandhr.
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)In satire, a kernel of truth.
almost always has a kernel of truth