Missing Black Teen Story Bumped From Nancy Grace for Story about Missing White Teen
NEWS THAT'S NOT IN THE NEWS: Missing Black Teen Story Bumped From Nancy Grace for Story about Missing White Teen by BlackTalkRadio, Wed Jan 19, 2011 at 05:28:40 AM EST
By Scotty Reid
Baltimore, Maryland - The mother of missing Black Teen Phylicia Barnes and a spokesperson for the Baltimore Police Department are critical of the national media in its slow reaction in covering the case of the missing black teen.
Janice Sallis, Phylicia’s mother who lives in Monroe, North Carolina was interviewed this past Sunday by CNN’s Don Lemon stated, “"The first 48 hours were crucial and they were ignored”. Phylicia Barnes disappeared from her half-sisters apartment in Baltimore, Maryland while visiting back in December of 2010.
Janice Sallis has been very vocal and critical of Phylicia’s paternal older sister whom was supposed to be caring for the teen when reports surfaced that the police found that many people came in out of the apartment and reported use of drugs and alcohol.
Janice Sallis was not clear on whom she blames in the media for not covering the case early on.
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MSNBC REPORTS: Media criticized on response to case of missing N.C. teen
MONROE, N.C. — The mother of a missing North Carolina teen is pleading for information about her 16-year-old daughter in a case police say might have gained more media attention if the girl had been white.
NOTE: HOT LINE - Missing teen - Baltimore police set up 24-hour hotline — 855-223-0033 — and are pleading for the community's help in finding Phylicia Simone Barnes.
Phylicia Simone Barnes disappeared while spending Christmas break with relatives in Baltimore, her mother, Janice Sallis of Monroe, N.C., told NBC News on Tuesday.
She last talked to Phylicia on Christmas Day, just three days before she disappeared from her half-sister's apartment in northwest Baltimore.
"I told her how sad that I was because all of the children were gone and that next year, they're not going to be able to go because I was lonely without them. And she said, 'Mommy, I miss you, too,'" Sallis said.
Her disappearance has been reported in local media, NBC's TODAY show, CNN and ABC's "Good Morning America." But a Baltimore police official told NBC News that had the missing person been white, the case might have received even more media attention, perhaps aiding investigators in finding a suspect.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41139649/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/
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NBC Nightly News Story on Phylicia Simone Barnes (Video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM_i7CmbZ8w
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