Okay, I know wire services account for a lot of this stuff, but it's always *someone's* decision which of the wire stories are run, and in what order, and how much coverage each one gets (I know that in print, wire stories are sometimes just printed ver-batim, I'm focusing more on the TV coverage here.)

And, as stated in Loren's clarification of my original point, it's almost always the daughter of a wealthy white family. Even the JonBenet Ramsey thing, which was a murder and not a kidnapping, was the same story. All the murders that happen in the country, and that one gets all the coverage.

I know it's about sensationalism, and selling, but why do stories of rich white kids sell more than stories of kids from other walks of life?