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Originally Posted by Damien
I am very disturbed by the amount of coverage the guy accused of her murder is getting.
He is on almost every paper, his name printed everywhere. Every paper carrying a different profile on him commenting on his career, his hair colour, his local activist work, and carrying quotes from former pupils and neighbours about this personality.
He hasn't actually been charged, much less, convicted of a crime yet.
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It's the way the world is these days. Whenever a girl goes missing, if she's pretty (Holly Wells/Jessica Chapman, Madeleine McCann, Claudia Lawrence, Joanna Yates etc) the media just go mad and focus on them so intently. The fact that the accused also looks media-friendly (eccentric, wild hair, pillar-of-society) also that adds a few points.
The trouble is this is what people want to see and even for the news, ratings count so they are just filling a need. If the BBC didn't, someone else would.