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Finally... a Madeleine McCann article worth reading
Cricko2
Guest
We Have been down this road before Jon .whilst most of us agree with you over the publicity of this .... some of us have kids and it puts a different prospective on things . Its best to leave a sleeping dog lie now mate.We all hope for the best of course. That does not mean we will forget or not hope for the best.
Pubey
Guest
I know what you are saying and it was my fault that the original debate was ignored in the old thread... It is a sensitive subject but i think this article does a good job at analysing the frenzy that has occured and to also look at how the reaction may have done little to really help the McCanns. The point especially about the BBC sending over a 3rd reporter is particularly well made, seeing as it is our money that is being spent reporting not very much unfortunately. I think this is an important subject to discuss and that is why I made this thread, not so much to focus on the McCanns but about how the media has portrayed it.
Interpol Shrimper
Member
A good find that article Jon & as you say this thread should not be about the specific McCann case, but more about how the media whip up such stories into a frenzy.
That article mentions various other occurences of this since the news media became 24/7 but on a personal level as I have friends & relatives in the Ipswich area it doesn't mention the furore that surrounded the prostitute murders before Christmas. This was in my opinion an example of how we've now reached saturation level in terms of news reporting. Seeing parts of a town I know very well with a huge media scrum trying to eek out another snippet of basically non-existant information at some points verged on scandalous and again the UK media are guilty of it with current events in Portugal.
That article mentions various other occurences of this since the news media became 24/7 but on a personal level as I have friends & relatives in the Ipswich area it doesn't mention the furore that surrounded the prostitute murders before Christmas. This was in my opinion an example of how we've now reached saturation level in terms of news reporting. Seeing parts of a town I know very well with a huge media scrum trying to eek out another snippet of basically non-existant information at some points verged on scandalous and again the UK media are guilty of it with current events in Portugal.
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