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

date posted 18th May 2007 11:32

I believe in your theory. But can't it backlash? You get enough or =20
you find the media dumbing you down.

Bo

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18 maj 2007 kl. 11.21 skrev Martin Wilkins:

>
>> The media don't have any power if we the public don't read/listen =20=

>> or watch
>> them
>
> Yes that is true but at the end of the day the masses for some =20
> reason choose
> to listen and believe, my theory would be that its our human nature =20=

> to be
> curious and listen and also its todays lazy way of life in which =20
> its easier
> to listen to them and believe it rather than do the work and figure =20=

> 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
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bo Persson" [EMAIL REMOVED]
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> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 10:56 AM
> Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: Missing maddy - lets do our bit - please read!!
>
>
>
> 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
>
> Bo Persson
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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, =20
>> and 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,
>> 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 =20
>> need to be
>> taught a lesson, but I think the lesson has well and truly sunk =20
>> in 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 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 =20
>> 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 =20
>> you 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 =20
>> read!!
>>
>>
>>>
>>> [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Again - you are not wrong - but as someone else pointed out - =20
>>>> it 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 =20
>>>> things like
>>>> peadophilia rather than actually making an altruistic gesture =20
>>>> to try
>>>> and
>>>> save a kid
>>>>
>>>> And please don=B9t make a statement like how would I feel if it =20
>>>> was my
>>>> child -
>>>> I would feel like anyone else, but that is not the issue - it =20
>>>> is 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 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
>>> 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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