Letter: Call out the media imbalance

Female, pretty, young, white, well off, missing — a perfect combination for massive search and media coverage resources.

Female, young, brown, poor, missing — a perfect combination to become an anonymous statistic.

Salt Lake Tribune, you can't control all the media imbalance. But you can call it out. Get busy.

Tom Horton, Park City

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Letter: Call out the media imbalance

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