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

date posted 18th May 2007 10:18

[EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> Again - you are not wrong - but as someone else pointed out - it is about
> double standards, and I feel that the media create these campaigns so as to
> big themselves up and talk about their editorial slants on things like
> peadophilia rather than actually making an altruistic gesture to try and
> save a kid
>
> And please don¹t make a statement like how would I feel if it was my child -
> I would feel like anyone else, but that is not the issue - it is about a
> media circus - which I find distasteful because they are profiting from the
> misfortune of others

I share your distaste, and if this kind of effort were sustained for
*all* the missing children (see my previous links) we might have fewer
cases.

A quick scan of the news (i have had more personal issues to distract me
over the last few weeks) shows that these parents left three babies
alone in a villa most nights of their holiday, to go out to eat. Just
look at the picture of the resort on the BBC website, would you leave
your babies alone and asleep that far away? and whilst I'm not saying
they deserved it, I do think they were taking unacceptable risks, don't you?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6667307.stm

Mark Warner is driving the PR campaign to avoid poor publicity.

The main suspect(s) are a Brit property developer and a Russian Web
Designer.

(e.g. foreign locals with computers = Paedophiles)

The press are targeting the Portugese Police as incompetent.



it's a sad tale for sure, with much wider implications.

if the power of the Internet were that great, why not plaster every
website, with pictures of every missing child?

I think we all know why.

:(