Coverage Analysis

People of color are all but absent this morning from the mainstream sites. Cory Booker is kidding with Chris Christie, Usher’s custody battle is news, an innocent man reportedly was executed in Texas, and Mindy Kaling and Vanessa Williams have new shows.

The Huffington Post and The Daily Beast have the video of Newark Mayor Cory Booker and N.J. Gov.

Media outlets have traditionally devoted a disproportionate amount of newsprint and airtime to investigating disappearances of middle-class whites, especially women, while often ignoring minority women and other demographics, such as men and the poor.

A 2005 study by Scripps Howard News Service found that although half of missing children are white, they were subjects of more than two-thirds of reports on the Associated Press national news wire during the last five years and for three-fourths of missing-children coverage on CNN.