Duke Lacrosse Team Story

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One thing mentioned in this thread that is 100% accurate, tabloid stories in general are driven by white suburean housewives, "soccer moms" if you want a name for it.

Any story that has strong appeal to them gets done to death.

Any story involving young pretty white girls and some sort of drama instantly becomes a media firestorm (Lacy Petterson, Natalie Holloway, Jean Benne Ramsey or whatever, etc.)

And as others had pointed out, if hte races were reversed (group of alleged black men, alleged white woman victim) it would indeed be a much bigger story, not so much because the media racist but due to the fact hte story would appeal alot more to soccer moms as they would be identifying with the alleged victim.

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Peterson, Holloway, and Benet-Ramsey all represent the type of person the soccer moms can relate to. If the alleged victim were white, but were a white-trash stripper/hooker, i dont think the soccer moms would care as much as they did in the lacy peterson/natalie holloway cases.