7-year-old Alexis Patterson is missing in Milwaukee, having vanished while on her way to her school on May 3. 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart, as you've probably heard, was "apparently kidnapped at gunpoint from her family's million-dollar home on June 5." Says the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:

A Nexis search of major newspapers and magazines shows 67 stories about Patterson, almost all of them by The Associated Press and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. In the last week, there have been more than 400 stories about Smart.

There is another difference between the two cases that cannot be ignored. Smart is white; Patterson black.