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Thank you, Suzy! The point is that had they not been so stupid, none of this would have happened. Fair enough, blaming the parents won't find Madeline, but I think it's worth remembering that the parents are no saints. While no-one would wish this situation on anyone, if it weren't for their own stupidity they wouldn't be in this situation
personally i thought that that was far more shocking yet we never heard much about it
See the thing about that, firstly, it only lasted an hour or so. And, as the child was the victim of a sex crime, she had to remain anonymous. So there wasn't that much the media could report, although I remember the guy being sentenced in court. And I read the mother's story in a magazine a few weeks ago.
True it won't help in finding her but it sticks in my gut that there's this overwhelming outpouring of sympathy, media coverage and rewards for 2 self-indulgent fucking assholes who put stuffing their faces above the safety of there own child.
According to reports i've read they 'went back to check every 30 minutes or so' when they were in a restaurant 60 (approx) yards away. Would anyone in their right mind even go next door for half an hour and leave 3 children aged 3 and under locked in the house alone ?
What really annoys me is the media putting on their deerstalker hat's and trying to do the police's job.
Maybe it's this amount of coverage that will change the way we go about getting kids back?
@Aladdin: Are they still covering? I didn't think there was much on the Beeb about it now?
@SuzyCreamcheese: It was avoidable I know, but I'd wish people would shut up about it, it's almost as boring as this thing being in the news everyday. I didn't hear anyone keep banging on about how the Sarah Payne thing could of been avoided.
@Goldersgreen: There is nothing you can do to FaceBook that will make it better, just give up and throw in the towel while you still can.
You should take them up on that!!
It was insanity.
Three days ago the interrupting whatever piece they were doing to bring live pictures of the father arriving at their home town and looking at some flowers and cards that had been left on a square.
And yesterday they interrupted another piece to bring life pictures showing the couple arriving at Fatima.
I mean ffs... :rolleyes:
Don't like it then stop reading the popular press/watching tv/walking past anyone else who gives a toss about a young girl who has been abducted.
Also it shows up the highly selective nature of the media market. Its not that people don't want to find or hear about her, I think that some people resent being hyper-fed a story about which they can do very little.
What people object to is the shameless media salivation over yet another case of Missing White Woman Syndrome with hours of endless reportage of the same vague conjecture. All the while real breaking news continues to occur worldwide and is completely swept under the carpet.
I imagine a lot of people think this kind of attitude is very cold, but I have to clarify that my thoughts have been with Madeleine from day one. She is the blameless victim in all of this, and if people didn't care about her safety and well-being they wouldn't get so worked up about all the bullshit clouding the real issues.
Oh and if they want to continue to grease the good PR wheel then I suggest they shut Aunty McCann up. She is the least articulate and effective spokesperson for family tragedy I have ever seen, and thundering about outside the Houses of Parliament yelling at Gordy isn't going to do a lot to find a missing-feared-dead child.
This afternoon (hopefully) you'll be able to integrate slideshows into your profile page and a whole lot more.
I don't think anyone gives a shit.
Would you still be saying that if he view was different to yours ?
Well judging by the various messages boards I've seen and every single person I have discussed the case with, it'd seem that just about everybody else shares my feelings and is at best uncomfortable if not sick to their stomachs about the media circus and hypocrisy.
And incidentally it has nothing to do with wanting the girl found. Everyone wants the girl found. But the disproportionate media hysteria we are witnessing has little do do with that, and more to the point it will be of no help in finding her.
The parents of every other child who's ever dissapeared must be wondering where they went wrong not to merit such honourable concern and effort.
Because the media doesn't spend time much time on every case, then they shouldn't spend so much on this one?
Isn't the very fact that we are discussing those other cases are out there a direct result of the media reporting in this one?
Isn't the fact that it was a family abroad what makes it stand out from abductions in the UK - therefore a legitimate story?
Well...you're right about the media frenzy getting out of hand.
But plenty of crimes against whites and the middle class go under-reported (Kris Donald being an example), plenty of crimes against blacks and the working class get over-reported.
Bringing race and class into this suggests the bias is with you...
Other than the child being abducted while abroad (and that is not such revolutionary or extraordinary event- bad people exist everywhere) there is very little that could explain such media frenzy- not to mention celebrities wearing ribbons on national television.
I don't blame the parents for trying as hard as they can. But one cannot but raise their eyebrows at the completely disproportionate hysteria regarding this case.
Putting posters up in Wolverhampton or wearing a yellow ribbon on Any Dream Will Do has nothing to do with helping find the child. And while some might be inclined to say 'well at least it comforts the parents' perhaps they should consider what effect it might be having on the parents of every child who's been abducted before, and who would have very much liked even 1% of the press coverage and public eye focus this case has enjoyed.
Then there is the hypocrisy and double standards: if the case had involved a pair of 'chavs' living in a housing estate whose child had been abducted while left alone in the flat after the parents had nipped down to their local for a quick pint you just know the press would be eating them alive and questioning whether the remaining kids should be taken into care.
I know it's a sensitive issue but I don't think it's wrong to question how this whole issue is being handled. At best it's become a bit of sordid spectacle.
The ribbons thing isn't about reporting of a story.
This is still of interest to many people because it's about someone supposed to be having fun on holiday when their life was turned upside down - much as it was for Ben Needham, a story which still occasionally hits the news some 16 years later. That is the big difference here.
NB There is no evidence that if this child had been black/chav etc that reporting would have been different. That's just conjecture.
:yes:.
If I was a parent and my kid had been abducted, I'd be wondering why it was these people were getting so much attention, and it'd make me feel like utter shit tbh.
I agree, what news is slipping under the radar that we're being told in this thread? I haven't seen the case of Maddeline on the news for days now and even then it was only a snippet.
There is mass public hysteria, and although it's getting a bit out of hand, it's nice to see so many people caring strongly about an issue.
SCC-They weren't partying, they were having a meal.
You're wrong. There are only on average 6 cases a year of child snatching by a stranger.
Just out of interest, do the news of the world still put "For Sarah" under their title?
And as harsh as this sounds, it's going to be pretty hard to find her if she's dead.
So, do we know that that's what happened to M?