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Originally Posted by punky
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.
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I agree it's how the media works.
It's scary though. Who here remembers the Ipswich murders? When the papers (Mostly The Mirror) published a picture of the initial guy arrested, complete with profile, and all ran with the idea the serial killer had been caught only for it to emerge that he was innocent?
Not only that but it was a Mirror reporter who raised suspicions about him after asking him leading questions and getting dodgy quotes.