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

date posted 18th May 2007 09:59

Would be very interesting if a journalist could answer the question. =20
I find it a bit dangerous with the reward if it is offered to the =20
kidnapper. Get those dirty people behind bars! Someone told me that =20
the 24 first hours after is crucial. Now it has passed 2 weeks.

Bo
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18 maj 2007 kl. 09.51 skrev [EMAIL REMOVED]

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> On one hand you have a point,
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> but why has this story has generated so much publicity, when =20
> thousands of
> kids go missing every month - I cannot help feeling that it is =20
> driven by the
> media who have more interest because it is a photogenic little =20
> white kid at
> the merciless hands of johnny foreigner or the incompetent policing =20=

> of pc
> foreigner
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> Similarly - the kids who died abroad because of a faulty gas =20
> boiler, as
> horrible as that is for the parents - I knew someone who died at =20
> uni for the
> same reason - why was that not reported in the papers? I think =20
> there is more
> milage in a story where we can vilify someone especially if they =20
> are foreign
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> Finally - if the newspapers wants to make an altruistic gesture and =20=

> offer a
> reward to try and secure the girls release - now come they have =20
> their logo
> printed on it, if celebs want to make a gesture - why is it they =20
> want their
> pictures in the paper - publicity and pr?
>
> I aint biting
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> 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 =20
>> 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
>>
>> [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
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>>> I work from home and I welcome a bit of debate on non work =20
>>> related subjects,
>>> 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 =20
>>> interested, don't
>>> look at it.
>>>
>>> I personally agree with Lee's comments, as difficult as this must =20=

>>> be for the
>>> girls parents, I personally cannot stand this overly mawkish =20
>>> sentamentality
>>> that the british press force onto everyone, as if we all have to =20
>>> 'do our
>>> bit' as if wearing yellow ribbons is going to make any difference.
>>>
>>> There are some sick people around, and these things happen as =20
>>> horrible as it
>>> is, but the press have a field day over it - beautiful little =20
>>> white middle
>>> class girl abducted in a foreign land, if they cant blame some =20
>>> greasy
>>> foreigner for it - they will blame the greasy foreign police for =20
>>> screwing it
>>> all up, all of which time they will have countless editorials =20
>>> from muppets
>>> like Richard Littlejohn and Jon Gaunt about castrating peados and =20=

>>> dying
>>> their hair blue. And predictably, every newspaper comes up with a =20=

>>> 'save
>>> maddie campaign' gets some celebs to endorse it and congratulate =20
>>> themselves
>>> for 'giving something back to the community'.During which time =20
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> I hope like everyone else, that the girl is returned and that the =20=

>>> family can
>>> cope with however this turns out. And leave it at that
>>>
>>> My 2 p
>>>
>>>
>>>
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