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And you can back that number up with what?
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The National Missing Persons Helpline.
http://nmph.underwired.com/news.php?itemid=143
The link came from the MSN article I previously posted.
http://msnukhomepage.spaces.live.com/
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Originally Posted by Mick
I believe the Comic Relief funds and other well known charitable causes go towards in trying to eradicate such devastating crimes.
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... and is only ever briefly in the news once every two years, around the time of Red Nose Day.
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Well I don't. How disturbing that you feel the usual political infighting that is usually the normal news becomes more important than a childs life, shame on you Matt.  |
I didn't mention "the usual political infighting"...
And I fail to see how the
news (or lack of) regarding the abduction of a single child is more important than
news about important events which affect this country as a whole, & important events in other parts of the world.
I was not talking about the importance of a child's life. I was talking about the importance of news regarding that child's life.
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I don't know, why don't you ask Bob Geldof and U2's frontman Bono? Aren't they celebrity enough for you?
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Personally, I can't stand either of them, however they do both do a lot for very good causes.
Although Live8 was a few years ago, & was more about debt relief etc., plus the G8 seem to have conveniently forgotten their promises.
And, again, there is no major news presence, no real public awareness, of the African child abduction issue, no big campaign in the media with loads of celebs speaking out, etc.
And none either for all the missing people in the UK.
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Anyway, getting back to the point about the 450+ people who *you* say have gone missing since Maddie went missing, I do hope you can back this figure up and its not some over exaggerated, made up figure by you.
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National Missing Persons Helpline (as above).
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Another point to consider, people who usually vanish or disappear and are classed as missing are usually people who have ran away from home. Maddie is a 4 year old girl, who has been *abducted* whilst on holiday, she is not someone who decided to be in this predicament, so this has created a unique set of circumstances to which the media have decided to take a great interest in. I'm surprised I've had to spell out the obvious really.
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Of course they've taken a great interest. It sells papers, & it gets TV ratings.
So, as per usual for the British media, they've gone OTT in some crazed media frenzy. Not helped by the Portuguese police having the cheek to actually tend to keep quiet & get on with things, rather than give the constant briefings & leaks that the British media are accustomed to. And not helped by the press being unused to the cultural & legal differences there.
The MSN blog I linked to earlier says more about the media problems. And the Time article someone else linked to earlier makes good points about the story & the national obsession -
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle1811160.ece