Missing Girl in Wales...

[Mad Doug Biker]

But I'm a hard hearted cow sometimes.

You are right though, most of it is just hypocritical crap.

 

[Silver Fox]

I also find this pink ribbon stuff a bit sick. It's like people are making some sort of ritual celebration out of the whole thing.

I think the pink ribbons are more a show of solidarity with April's relatives. They need every ounce of emotional support at this very difficult time.

 

[Norm]

I think the pink ribbons are more a show of solidarity with April's relatives. They need every ounce of emotional support at this very difficult time.

The problem with that is that between 560 and 1,035 children have gone missing ever year for the past decade. That leaves a lot of people who might be needing emotional support who might be feeling excluded or worse because of this focus on one child.

People need emotional support for many reasons, but there's only so much room for ribbons. Besides, just how much help is random 'support' from strangers and people who you'll never meet. The numbers turning out to help the search is, IMO, fantastic and the sort of support that means something. I doubt that people in Glasgow or Peterborough wearing a pink ribbon will count for much.

 

[Arch]

I find that hard to believe Arch.

We've never met and the interweb can be a playground for false personae.

But I give you a special 5 star, superb most of the time - and I suspect (and hope) your hard hardest hours are still nicer than most people's average behaviour.

I agree - news coverage is a pile of s*** BTW

Well thankyou.

I hope I'm not hard hearted in practical terms. If someone needs a hand, and I can give it, I'll try. I just mean that over the years I've found that I don't tend to get caught up in public hysteria over death. I've faced my share of personal bereavement, and handled it in the way that comes naturally to me, which is to be sad, unhappy, but get on with life. While I can see the terrible pain for the families of children who die, I don't find myself reacting in the way that some people seem to to a child's death. There's been a little lad with cancer in the York Press recently, his family were raising money to make his last months fun, and various episodes (like them getting married early so he could be there) made the front page. It bewildered me a bit, and like Norm, I think about all the people suffering pain who might feel "Why is that more important than my pain over my mother/sister/husband, just because it's a little kid?"

It's just one of those social norms that children are seen as more precious than adults, and if you don't instinctively feel that, you feel you're odd.

 

[Vapin' Joe]

I think the pink ribbons are more a show of solidarity with April's relatives. They need every ounce of emotional support at this very difficult time.

No, they're a self indulgent display of meaningless tosh. It's designer grief.

 

[summerdays]

No, they're a self indulgent display of meaningless tosh. It's designer grief.

It's something they can do when they can't do much else.

 

[Vapin' Joe]

It's something they can do when they can't do much else.

It's showing off, nothing more.

 

[Norm]

It's just one of those social norms that children are seen as more precious than adults, and if you don't instinctively feel that, you feel you're odd.

Stop worrying about the social norms and follow the anti-social ones. We have better cake.

At the end of the day, it's down to each person to at as they decide with their money and their conscience. But that doesn't stop me thinking that some are being blinkered and led by The Media when they make their decision.

 

[ComedyPilot]

Direct quote from S*y news, "Police must decide today whether to charge or release murder suspect Mark Bridger, as the hunt for missing April Jones continues."

As clever as they try to be, even a major broadcaster can't even get basic law of this country right. It is NOT up to the police to decide whether to charge the suspect with murder. It is up to the CPS who will have been passed a file by the police.

How much more carp reporting goes on where they are factually wrong, but millions of viewers will listen/take notice without question?

 

[ColinJ]

It bewildered me a bit, and like Norm, I think about all the people suffering pain who might feel "Why is that more important than my pain over my mother/sister/husband, just because it's a little kid?"

There is an ongoing thread about me and my current illness and I did think to myself that there must lots of other people on CycleChat who are suffering (or healing) in silence, so why do I merit my own thread?

Then I thought about all of the GWS messages that I had been getting and I decided that it made sense to just update people in one place rather than making lots of phonecalls and sending scores of texts.

I have been trying to make the GWS thread useful by explaining what happened to me and how to try to prevent it happening to others.

But yes - I agree with you! This is looking like a tragedy for the family and the local community but death is all around us, all the time and most of it goes unnoticed by the media.

 

[Norm]

How much more carp reporting goes on where they are factually wrong, but millions of viewers will listen/take notice without question?

There was one case like this a couple of years ago which I had the 'inside line' on, I was astounded at how much the media guessed and reported as fact, and what effect that had on those involved who knew the truth.

It's bad enough having to tell friends and family what is going on, but a million times worse when that phone call starts with 'I know what you've seen but that's not true, what actually happened is...'

 

[Sara_H]

I often have the inside story on events reprted in the media (through my work) and never cease to be amazed at how sensationalist and inaccurate the media are.

 

[ComedyPilot]

Seems like he has now been charged with her murder, attempting to pervert the course of justice and child abduction.

 

[Ajay]

There is an ongoing thread about me and my current illness and I did think to myself that there must lots of other people on CycleChat who are suffering (or healing) in silence, so why do I merit my own thread?

Then I thought about all of the GWS messages that I had been getting and I decided that it made sense to just update people in one place rather than making lots of phonecalls and sending scores of texts.

I have been trying to make the GWS thread useful by explaining what happened to me and how to try to prevent it happening to others.

But yes - I agree with you! This is looking like a tragedy for the family and the local community but death is all around us, all the time and most of it goes unnoticed by the media.

What colour ribbon would you like us to wear for you Colin ?
;-)

 

[ColinJ]

What colour ribbon would you like us to wear for you Colin ?
;-)

Dark red - the colour of my clots?