Why did they choose her?

While doing my usual thing of watching the almost perpetually depressing evening news while eating dinner, I posed what I find to be a very  interesting question.  When a tragic crime such as a shooting, stabbing etc. happens in a urban area, “Why do they always choose Boomquesha or someone with a ghetto name to interview on what happened?” I’m all for getting everyone’s account of what happened so that everyone watching can be informed, but damn, thats who they pick? There could be 10-15 decent looking people who look like they have something interesting/intelligent to say at the very least on site when the news crew arrives and more than 90% of them could probably give a well articulated statement on what recently happened and it still wouldn’t make a difference. They choose the person in the neighborhood who’s  probably the shabbiest, with the most off the top hairstyle and with the least favorable hygiene. Do they do this for ratings? Do they do this purposely, as to say that this is the best person in the “hood” to give the scoop on whats happening? I just don’t get it and may never will. In a world where there are so many stereotypes about what people in the hood look like, dress like, and talk like, this is further fueling people’s misconceptions of life in the “hood”. I yearn to one day at least when I’m watching, see a news crew put someone on the air from the hood to give their account of what just happened and they not sound like the village idiot. In the meanwhile I will never understand their motives behind what I currently see them do and still pose the question: Why did they choose her?