Re: FN-FORUM: Missing maddy - lets do our bit - please read!!

date posted 18th May 2007 09:44




On one hand you have a point,

but why has this story has generated so much publicity, when thousands of
kids go missing every month - I cannot help feeling that it is driven by th=
e
media who have more interest because it is a photogenic little white kid at
the merciless hands of johnny foreigner or the incompetent policing of pc
foreigner

Similarly - the kids who died abroad because of a faulty gas boiler, as
horrible as that is for the parents - I knew someone who died at uni for th=
e
same reason - why was that not reported in the papers? I think there is mor=
e
milage in a story where we can vilify someone especially if they are foreig=
n

Finally - if the newspapers wants to make an altruistic gesture and offer a
reward to try and secure the girls release - now come they have their logo
printed on it, if celebs want to make a gesture - why is it they want their
pictures in the paper - publicity and pr?

I aint biting=20



On 18/5/07 9:31 am, "Vicki Sivess" [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:

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> For some people it may be about mawkish sentimentality, but for us is
> this not essentially a matter of finding a new and powerful use for the
> internet? If this child can be found because someone has seen her
> picture on a website who might not otherwise have done so, then this
> tells other people who abduct children that there is now no hiding
> place. So it is not about this one child only.
> Vicki
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> [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
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>> I work from home and I welcome a bit of debate on non work related subje=
cts,
>> or are your conversations limited to work related topics as well - I
>> certainly don=B9t see what harm it does and if you are not interested, don=
't
>> look at it.
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>> I personally agree with Lee's comments, as difficult as this must be for=
the
>> girls parents, I personally cannot stand this overly mawkish sentamental=
ity
>> that the british press force onto everyone, as if we all have to 'do our
>> bit' as if wearing yellow ribbons is going to make any difference.
>>=20
>> There are some sick people around, and these things happen as horrible a=
s it
>> is, but the press have a field day over it - beautiful little white midd=
le
>> class girl abducted in a foreign land, if they cant blame some greasy
>> foreigner for it - they will blame the greasy foreign police for screwin=
g it
>> all up, all of which time they will have countless editorials from muppe=
ts
>> like Richard Littlejohn and Jon Gaunt about castrating peados and dying
>> their hair blue. And predictably, every newspaper comes up with a 'save
>> maddie campaign' gets some celebs to endorse it and congratulate themsel=
ves
>> for 'giving something back to the community'.During which time countless
>> kids go missing on the streets of Brazil, kids dye in Africa and the
>> journalist could not give a toss because it does not sell papers.
>>=20
>> I hope like everyone else, that the girl is returned and that the family=
can
>> cope with however this turns out. And leave it at that
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>> My 2 p=20
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