You make excellent points. But I could easily find a dozen stories in the past year or two with the same composition, except the target of the kidnapping wasn't a cute white girl from a rich family. The Erica Pratt story I linked to is just one.

I'm not uncovering anything revolutionary here, we all know the media is biased in certain directions... It just really irks me when I see blatant examples like the Elizabeth Smart case.