WASP Nation

If you watch American cable network news you would have to think that Americans were most concerned with was missing upper middle class or wealthy young women. Bill in DC sends us another example of WASP Nation.

As seen on cable news:
Middle Class White Boy

Scout's parents: 'Brennan continues to amaze us'
BOUNTIFUL, Utah (CNN) -- The father of 11-year-old Cub Scout Brennan Hawkins said Wednesday his son "continues to amaze us" after surviving four days alone in the Utah wilderness.

As not seen on cable news:
Young Black Boy

How the Lure of a Cool River Led to Grief for a Boy's Kin
For weeks, Joseph Johnson and his friends had been climbing through a gap in a railway fence to play manhunt, a variation on hide-and-seek, along the Bronx River. On Monday evening they went down again, only this time they found another group of boys who proposed a trip onto the river in a makeshift wooden raft.

It sounds like a summer idyll out of Huckleberry Finn. But this idyll quickly turned dark. After paddling out on the raft, Joseph, 14, ended up in the river and disappeared in its murky current, despite a heroic effort by one of his friends to save him.

Yesterday afternoon, after almost a day of underwater searching, police divers found Joseph's body in the river, not far from where he went under. His stiffened form, dressed only in long black shorts, was brought to the riverside, where a group of his friends and relatives had been keeping vigil throughout the day.

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