It first starts with a buzz from your IPhone. “Amber alert”. There is a missing child. We don’t think about the goal of why some children get more media coverage than others. In Etan Patz’s case, there could have been another motive for the news. In the Podcast, Disappearances by Parcast, Etan Patz was a six-year-old boy who had gone missing in New York City in the 1970s. Why did the media choose him? We realize this was the 70s and New York city was around 10 billion dollars