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If I may use the phrase, hey indeedy.

Nice to see a Republican agrees on one aspect of our corporate whore media that I particularly detest. From Douglas MacKinnon, press secretary to former U.S. Sen. Bob Dole in the Chicago Tribune.

Note to the news media--with an emphasis on the cable networks: Enough is enough.

Your continual focus on, and reporting of, missing, young, attractive white women not only demeans your profession but is a televised slap in the face to minority mothers and parents the nation over who search for their own missing children with little or no assistance or notice from anyone...

...As a Maryland police official told me after Wilbanks turned up in New Mexico, "the media's non-stop focus on the possible abduction of Wilbanks forced the local officials and police departments to spend thousands of dollars they would not otherwise have spent."

Define racism. One could certainly make the argument that the cable networks that continually focus on these missing white women, to the virtual exclusion of minority women, are practicing a form of racism. The racism in this case, however, while predicated on color, does not concern itself with the color of one's skin. Rather, it is based on the color of money, ratings points and competition. Would an African-American woman who went missing days before her wedding receive the same (or any) coverage as that of Wilbanks? Not likely.

I am not normally in the business recreation of praising Republicans, but I could not agree more with what McKinnon says. There is more to his supreme dressing down and I encourage you to read it.