Abstract
This study examines how closely representations of missing children in television news reflect missing children statistics from official sources. It replicates findings from a previous study (Min & Feaster, 2010) showing that two categories of missing children—African Americans and females—are significantly underrepresented in the news when compared to proportions reported by the FBI's National Crime Information Center. This study also introduces three new research design elements, including a second source of official statistics on missing children, an alternative operationalization of the unit of analysis, and a longer time period of news coverage. When applying these procedures, this research reinforces the previous study's findings on racial selection bias but finds contradictory results pertaining to gender bias.
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