The missing
So more news on Madeleine in that they may have found blood in her room. So hold on this has been going on since May 3rd and they've just found this. What the hell have the Portuguese police doing for all this time? The get-out appears to be that the blood was cleaned up. Now forgive me, but if you're in the middle of kidnapping a child are you going to get out the cleaning rags if they get cut, even if (and I hope not) she was killed you don't want to hang around. Unless that is ransom was on the agenda, but no-one has heard anything on that score; so what gives?
On the subject of missing people Natasha Coombs (found 10/08/07 deceased) has become a feature in the national media, just as Huang Ming (status unknown) in March and Suzanne Adams (found 25/3/09 deceased) in May. Ah silly me no they didn't they're not photogenic 7-year old's so ignore them, but Samantha Osborn (status unknown) a cute 15-year old should have surely, she went missing a month before Madeleine, do you remember reading about her? Who's deciding which missing person gets to be highlighted?
Perhaps one of the newspapers will create a Missing Persons column; say just 10 photos, names and locations with the latest disappearance at the top? Has one already and I've just missed it?
I doubt it, without a column of text it's hardly going to sell papers and would take up valuable advertising space.
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According to the police Samantha has had an unprecedented amount of media coverage.
Scary as 90% of the country have never heard of her!!
From what I can work out who gets the publicity is 70%luck and 30% parental pushing.
Today is day 131 since she disappeared,not a single sighting:(
I noticed Madeleine was on the front page again, Natasha had been pushed back to page whatever. It irks me it really does, we have all these rules for political coverage by the media can't we just say that national newspapers need a missing persons column?
I know that it will be simply be flicked past, but with photos it just might trip someone's memory as they turn the page.
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