what if you're not young

or white or attractive..........


neal shapiro, president nbc news talks to correspondent josh mankiewicz
When a 'Dateline' story invites some self-criticism (Josh Mankiewicz, Dateline Correspondent)

.....Until I began to research this story, though, I had no idea how lopsided the numbers really were as pertains to missing Americans. Most aren't young, attractive, white women. In fact, most are men. About 30 percent are black, a much higher percentage of the missing than blacks are of the U.S. population. And they attract almost no coverage nationally.........