http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/trib/pmupdate/s_363871.htmlIf you're woman who fears getting lost this summer, here's a sure-fire hint that will help you get found again: Be white. And oh yeah, while you're lost, it doesn't much hurt to be young and maybe even blond. But if you really expect the sort of around-the-clock media coverage bestowed upon professional disappearing acts like Jennifer Wilbanks, the so-called missing bride of Georgia, your best bet is to be TV-star pretty as well.
That way, news directors across the country will beat a path to the doors of your ex-boyfriends, high school teachers, parents and anyone else that may help make your disappearance a national obsession.
Although the disproportionate amount of media attention paid to the nation's missing pretty white girls would make most of us realize how little chance a black, Hispanic or even average-looking woman has of being found alive, this fact was apparently lost on Melvin Figueroa. The Philadelphia man has been hard at work lobbying TV news outlets to make at least a cursory mention of the disappearance of his daughter LaToyia, who was last seen July 18.
LaToyia, 24, was five months pregnant, has a 7-year-old daughter and bears the unfortunate distinction of not looking like one of those chirpy little white women whose every distress seems to make news directors salivate.
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