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

date posted 18th May 2007 10:49

We were discussing the power of media at a fashion conference in =20
Oslo. The topic was 'good and bad fashion journalism'. The media =20
don't have any power if we the public don't read/listen or watch them.

Bo

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18 maj 2007 kl. 10.50 skrev Martin Wilkins:

>
> The power of the media ay!
>
> At the end of the day newspapers, news channels, news websites, and =20=

> a like
> are a business and this is how they make their money, what ever =20
> they can
> spin that will generate the dough. The media have all the power, =20
> governments
> fear the strings media have attached to the people of the world, =20
> the media
> have all the power.
>
>
> If the parents have acted so irresponsibly here then yes they need =20
> to be
> taught a lesson, but I think the lesson has well and truly sunk in =20
> now,
> Maddy needs to come home and through all of this the only true =20
> person that
> matters and that we should all think of and pray for is Maddy. I =20
> don't see
> how this topic got so messed up, it started off thinking about =20
> Maddy, one
> little banner, how can that be so bad, it's what it's all about =20
> this little
> girl does not disserve to be punished for someone else's mistake.
>
>
> People in the media do care for her but they also need to make a =20
> living and
> so it would seem that this is what they are more interested in with =20=

> such
> stories as these, even if it is not the case.
>
> Within this debate what ever you have to say you can't win and you =20
> can't
> loose.
>
> The End.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tony Crockford" [EMAIL REMOVED]
> To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 10:25 AM
> Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: Missing maddy - lets do our bit - please read!!
>
>
>>
>> [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>>>
>>> Again - you are not wrong - but as someone else pointed out - it =20
>>> is about
>>> double standards, and I feel that the media create these =20
>>> campaigns so as
>>> to
>>> big themselves up and talk about their editorial slants on things =20=

>>> like
>>> peadophilia rather than actually making an altruistic gesture to =20
>>> try and
>>> save a kid
>>>
>>> And please don=B9t 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 =20
>>> about a
>>> media circus - which I find distasteful because they are =20
>>> profiting from
>>> the
>>> misfortune of others
>>
>> I share your distaste, and if this kind of effort were sustained =20
>> for *all*
>> the missing children (see my previous links) we might have fewer =20
>> cases.
>>
>> A quick scan of the news (i have had more personal issues to =20
>> distract me
>> over the last few weeks) shows that these parents left three =20
>> babies alone
>> in a villa most nights of their holiday, to go out to eat. Just =20
>> look at
>> the picture of the resort on the BBC website, would you leave your =20=

>> babies
>> alone and asleep that far away? and whilst I'm not saying they =20
>> 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 =3D 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.
>>
>> :(
>>
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