The Search For Mollie Tibbetts!

Missing Iowa woman Mollie Tibbetts.

Like all Americans, I would like to see the Iowa woman who went missing these last few weeks returned alive and well.

Mollie Tibbetts is getting national attention. The young 20 year old was an University of Iowa student who disappeared two weeks ago near Brooklyn, Iowa.

Many tips are coming in but no clear indication of confirmation.

Police and the family are offering a reward for her safe arrival.

Tibbetts' family believe that she could be still alive.

"The first night she went missing, I was distaught," said her mother, Laura Calderwood. "I knew her phone was dead, but I sent her a text saying, "I love you. We're looking for you. We will find you no matter what."

"Everyday I feel Mollie's presence with me," said Calderwood.

Her father is quick clear that he's determined to find his daughter. Rob Tibbetts, her father, says that he hopes the reward will be a "financial incentive" for people to come forward with information that they may otherwise be hesitant to reveal.

The Kearney Missouri Police thought a lead was strong. They spotted a woman at a local truck stop over 200 miles away. That lead turned up to be false.

The boyfriend Dalton Jack said that he is hoping his girlfriend is alive and well. He planned on marrying the young woman in the Dominican Republic. Police had formally cleared Jack in the disappearance. He was in Dubuque, Iowa at the time.

We hope that Mollie is found safe and sound.

Now onto the issue that makes me boil. The junk food media's coverage of this. How many people of color went missing without national coverage? How many women are missing since Mollie Tibbetts went missing?

Mollie Tibbetts and her boyfriend Dalton Jack.

Missing white woman syndrome once again comes into question. How many other people went missing since the junk food media covered Mollie's disappearance?

Missing white woman syndrome is a phenomenon noted by social scientists and media commentators of the extensive media coverage, especially in television, of missing person cases involving young, white, upper-middle-class women or girls. Instances have been cited in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and South Africa.

The phenomenon is defined as the media's undue focus on upper-middle-class white women who disappear, with the disproportionate degree of coverage they receive being compared to cases of missing men, or women of color and of lower social classes.Although the term was coined to describe disproportionate coverage of missing person cases, it is sometimes used to describe the disparity in news coverage of other violent crimes.

Missing white woman syndrome has led to a number of right-wing tough on crime measures that were named for white women who disappeared and were subsequently found harmed.

I mean I am amazed that for every dramatized event involving a missing white woman there's always someone waiting on making a movie or passing a law.