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Originally Posted by racehorse
well i have plently of compassion - but the fact is that a total of 17 children in the uk were reported missing inbetween between the month madeleine dissapeared and now, (as well as 3 portugese children in the past few years) and does anybody know their names? a boy of 11 was even shot dead on the streets around his council estate for crying out loud. these facts alone demonstrate how incongruous it is to claim that the factor keeping this story alive is compassion. in reailty it is down to something much more sinister. surely genuine compassion can perpetuate through ideas of class, race and sex. eatmychild has a point, it does seem silly and even worrying that the media and the nation is so infatuated w/ this story that it pays such little attention to crimes being commited to children in darfur, for example, or hundreds of thousands starving across the world. it is absolutely absurd to call it compassion.
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To get every piece of news that have gone on the day before make the paper like reading war and piece sized novels every day and that aint gonna happen. Admittedly the papers' agenda is to make money and they have been shits about it(Madeline to be found in 48hrs was a popular statement by them) but this isn't about the media, it's about the girl. Sorry if that came across as cheesy.