SPIKE@srufc wrote:Dave,
I've always thought your posts to be well thought out and incisive comments, therefore I assume this one is the exception which proves the rule.
Actually Spike, my comment was well thought out & the result of considered opinion.
How many British children go missing each week?
How many of them hit the headlines & stay in the media spotlight for over 3 weeks, despite there being no "new" news on the subject?
What makes this little girl so much more special than the thousands of other children who go missing every year?
I truly hope that she is found safe & well as soon as possible but the media & public attention surrounding her disappearance is excessive in my opinion. Continually displaying the same photograph on British TV of potentially the most recognisable little girl in Western Europe for 3 weeks solid isn't doing anything.
If the media & the public let the police do their job and await news
when it actually happens then I have no problem with it.
The problem is that no media organisation wants to step away from this case now as they don't want to be seen as the first one to do so (and therefore come across as more "uncaring" than the rest).
Instead, they are choosing to report even the slightest bit of "non-news" on the case in order to justify their presence out there.