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

date posted 18th May 2007 10:34

On 18/5/07 10:11 am, [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED]
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> I'm not sure I agree with that. Anyone know the 'class' of the parents o=
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> Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman? Jamie Bulger?
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> The point is there is a young girl missing - irrespective of her parents
> so-called class - and if you're given the opportunity to do something whi=
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> may make a difference (however small) then I for one feel its rather hear=
tless
> to refuse on the grounds that you object to the media coverage of the sto=
ry.
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You have a point to a degree - but also the other poster has a point in
saying that if this was a pair of unemployed chavs out on the p*ss - the
media would have taken an entirely different viewpoint would it not ...


I don=B9t think I am heartless, but anything I do will almost certainly have
no effect, and I am not going to endorse a media campaign that seems to be
more about a PR exercise for certain newspapers rather than trying to help =
a
little girl, who is behind this website? And again if newspapers want to
make an altruistic gesture - why have their logos all over it ? Why has it
taken 2 weeks to get this moving?

As I said, I am sorry for anyone invovlved in a case like this, but I feel
as an outsider, I should maintain a dignified silence rather wringing my
hands in an emotional display of how this story affects me, because I would
feel a certain amount of hypocracy (sp) knowing that I was ignoring the
plight of thousands of other kids in similar circumstances

This 'public grief' syndrome is what I don=B9t like - people making gestures
on the premise that it is all for a good cause whilst it is probably more
about a public display of how they have been affected - seriously - yellow
ribbons!