Why isn't this headline news?

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The case of Khasha Smith from Edinburgh. Remember the coverage the Nicola Bulley case received? This is another young woman and mother of three. Missing and there is a major search for her. I only know about it because I stumbled across it. There are a few scattered articles, and that's it. How is this not headline news?

There are some odd things about the case, such as not being reported missing for 2 months; so obviously there are things not being shared. But...Sharing because surely if more people know about it, she's more likely to be found/pressure on police to find her, etc.

Again. I don't understand how this isn't in the headlines: Who decides that?

Khasha Smith: Daughter 'desperate' as mum missing for five months - BBC News

What a tragic case. I hope she is found soon.

Why did it take so long for her family to report her missing?
Reading the article sounds like she wasn't around much and her kids only heard from her on birthdays & Christmas.
Nothing like the Nicola bully case.

Yes, it's very odd.

10 October 2023: Khasha is last seen "safe and well" at home in Calder Grove.
4 November 2023: Khasha last thought to have contacted family members, but no longer believed to have been "safe and well".
5 January 2024: She is reported missing by family months after last contact.

It says she lived with her partner - but s/he didn't report Khasha missing? Even her mother & daughter did nothing for two months.

Likely because her going missing was not abnormal at first - she was not reported missing for 2 months, which seems like it might be something she did often. Nicola Bulley was reported missing straight away, because it was out of the ordinary for her.

I think the 18 year old must be her oldest child as only 17 years age difference between her and mum. I wonder who looks after the younger children?
Could be so many things involved but so strange a partner didn’t report her missing.
I hope she’s ok, must be awful for her mum and children.

In answer to your question about who decides what is newsworthy, there are dozens of people who go missing every week. We have one locally who disappeared on Nov 11th. No warning anything was wrong, family, job, commitments, reported missing within hours, no sign since. Kasha Smith was reported missing after several months. Nicola Bulley, when she didn't collect her dcs from school.

I used to work for a search team and the police would only call us if they believed the person had not disappeared of their own free will. We were typically asked to conduct 60-70 searches a year, in just one county. There are 48 counties in England alone.

Newsworthiness of an adult disappearing is down to previous behaviour, whether the family push hard for a reaction from the police, whether the police believe a crime has been committed. And sadly, what other 'news' is happening on that day.

People go missing all the time, if they made headline news each and every one that is all that would ever be on the news and no I do not see the comparison to Nicola Bulley

the nicola bulley story was completely ott and unnecessary.
i should hope the press have learned from that

@Willmafrockfit tell her family it was Ott and unnecessary, I'm sure you could have phrased that better

the nicola bulley media attention was appalling

That was because of social.media

missing people are rarely headline news. There are thousands and thousands of them

Xielo Maruziva is barely mentioned in the news anymore. Poor little boy and his poor family.

People go missing every day OP. The circumstances of the Nicola Bulley case made it unusual, but the vast majority of disappearances do not make headline news.

That’s awful too OP, so many people go missing. 😢
There was a 60+ year old man who disappeared in North Bristol woods not too long ago- not a single news headline about him other than local online paper and even with that it wasn’t a big coverage. A few search teams went out a couple of times, volunteers on local fb pages… but nothing else. He was then found deceased in river Avon and nothing else was said of it. The Nicola Bulley news coverage was quite intense and scary in its own way … all the speculation must have killed her family. But you’re right that every single person deserves the same amount of effort- no matter their sex, age, race, whatever!

It's on local radio fairly often but I think there's more to this story than the press are saying as a few things don't add up. If she has kids and a partner why did it 2 months to report her missing??

I know, unfortunately as they know how he went missing there’s not really much to report on until he is (hopefully) found.

In 2023 in England Wales there were 602 homicides.

As of March 2022 there were 5200 longterm missing people in England.

They can't report them all.

It's class. Her mum was 20 when she was born. She had her first DC at 17. She's moved around the poorer areas of Edinburgh. She wasn't reported missing even over Christmas when she has younger children? So I'd assume they aren't in her care?

It shows how little society values marginalised women. Hope it's not some John murdering and getting away with it like Emma Caldwell.

Denise Jarvis is another one, missing since Aug 22 from Bristol. Only reported locally until recently. I lived very close to where she went missing for many years so I guess it resonates. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=www.itv.com/news/westcountry/2024-01-10/mystery-of-missing-woman-as-family-vows-to-never-give-up-search&ved=2ahUKEwix4L7b1qWFAxUNUkEAHZN4AFgQFnoECAQQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3Jr3zVdZSPqDC45yv2krLl

If you live on the margins you will not be a priority nor will your family push for you. It’s really sad that some families live chaotically like this

Please don't engineer a mystery about the level of coverage of one particular missing person case. Similar speculation-as-entertainment was pretty devastating in the Nicola Bulley case. Leave people alone.

Huh?

It's exactly this.

She meets some of the criterion for "Missing White Woman syndrome", but not the class/social background part.

It isn't even particularly big news in Edinburgh. I think that if she was a married mum of three, living with her husband in a nice, leafy part of Edinburgh like Stockbridge or Davidson's Mains, the coverage would have been entirely different.

The Nicola Bulley story had such a high profile because her friends and family worked very hard to make it so.