What about Brendan Dobbins?

It is indeed tragic Natalee Holloway has been missing from Aruba for three weeks now, but at least she has the major media outlets helping her case. The MSM seems to have this problem, and I doubt they will admit, but it is a problem. When it comes to missing persons' cases, they seem to follow only certain people. Those people are white women, with pretty faces and blonde hair. And for that I say the MSM has the "white women" syndrome.

The reason I bring this up was around three months ago, a UF exchange student from Australia, Brendan Dobbins, was on a trip to Costa Rica for Spring Break. He went missing March 4. On campus, there were tables set up to donate money for the search of Brendan Dobbins because no one else was doing it.

MSM was nowhere to be found.

There was minimal support from the Costa Rican locals, police, the Australian government and the U.S. Embassy. (Given he did not have a U.S. visa, American embassy officials were reluctant at first to get involved.) Additionally, the Australian Government did not respond as expected, taking seven days to send in a consulate official from Mexico.

How much do you want to bet if Brendan was actually a blonde girl with a pretty face he would have been all over the news? I don't care if he was an Australian, he was in school here, in the United States at the University of Florida, and we should have treated him like our own. Like Natalee Holloway.

How many people have even heard of Brendan Robbins? He has only been missing for 3 months now.

Today the local Gainesville Sun reports in a short blurb, Brendan Dobbins' likely remains were found by fishermen in Costa Rica and have to be identified by dental records.

It seems like the "white women" syndrome can be helpful for some, but deadly for others.