If 800,000 kids disappear every year, and 8,000 to 10,000 of those are never found, then why do only 4 or 5 cases each year make the national news (and why do 99% of those seem to be 5 year old white girls)?

I know, the news only reports what captures the public’s imaginations, whatever is sensationalistic and draws in viewers, but what makes the few young white girls (the Haleighs and Calees and Ambers) who disappear from time to time so much more newsworthy. Do people who watch TV news really not care if a 10 year old Asian or Hispanic or African American boy goes missing? I mean, I’ve been watching Headline News for an hour, and they’ve spent 30 minutes talking about Haleigh Cummings, but she’s been missing for a week, which means probably 200 other kids have gone missing since then, and I haven’t seen or heard anything about any of them. Do these parents know something about how to get on the news? What makes the news and the public pay attention to certain stories and not others?