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

date posted 18th May 2007 11:14

>The media don't have any power if we the public don't read/listen or watch
>them

Yes that is true but at the end of the day the masses for some reason choose
to listen and believe, my theory would be that its our human nature to be
curious and listen and also its todays lazy way of life in which its easier
to listen to them and believe it rather than do the work and figure it all
out for ourselves of which too many people follow this, even without
realising.

The media have it sussed, its why it works for them so well!!!!!!!!


Martin


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We were discussing the power of media at a fashion conference in
Oslo. The topic was 'good and bad fashion journalism'. The media
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 a
> like
> are a business and this is how they make their money, what ever they can
> spin that will generate the dough. The media have all the power,
> governments
> fear the strings media have attached to the people of the world, the
> media
> have all the power.
>
>
> If the parents have acted so irresponsibly here then yes they need to be
> taught a lesson, but I think the lesson has well and truly sunk in now,
> Maddy needs to come home and through all of this the only true person
> that
> matters and that we should all think of and pray for is Maddy. I don't
> see
> how this topic got so messed up, it started off thinking about Maddy, one
> little banner, how can that be so bad, it's what it's all about 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 living
> and
> so it would seem that this is what they are more interested in with 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 can't
> loose.
>
> The End.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tony Crockford" [EMAIL REMOVED]
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> 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 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.
>>
>> :(
>>
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