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Originally Posted by Osem
I'd like to think that the Police expend the same amount of time and effort on all missing children but somehow doubt they do. I wonder how many parents who've been in similar circumstances have received this sort of attention. Whilst I'm sure they don't begrudge the McCanns anything, they must feel like second class citizens.
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At the time I was annoyed. Canterbury town center had posters everywhere. In McDonalds, massive ones in the Superdrug window and, well, everywhere else. Given where she went missing it's highly unlikely anyone in Canterbury would have seen her and would have missed the wall-to-wall coverage in the press. You kind of think that if they had done the same for a local missing person the posters would stand a far greater chance of being effective.
You can't begrudge the McCann family for being so effective in keeping the search going, good luck to them, everyone hopes this tale has a happy ending. However it is probably evidence of the emotive storms that envelop the country from time to time. The annual Poppy crusades where newspapers start becoming judge and jury on who in the public eye hasn't displayed the required level of respect is another example.