April Jones: media ‘buzzards’ feast on Machynlleth
SUSAN Lee writes of April Jones in the Liverpool Echo of the people looking for the missing five-year-old:
But while we shake our heads in sorrowful disbelief there is comfort, albeit small, to be drawn from this terrible episode and it is this: there is more good in the world than bad.
Machynlleth has proved it.
What? The despair of a small town’s residents looking for a lost child is a sign that humanity is ok? The kidnap and possible murder of a child carries a message? Machynlleth stands for nothing other than filler in a hack’s comment page.
Sturdy Blog notes:
This is a village in grief. Denial is a perfectly legitimate first stage to dealing with it. Like wicked buzzards the media appears to be saying: “Excuse me, but we’re on a schedule here. Could you get on with it? We would like good close-up shots of anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance before the day is out. Thanks.”
How about leaving them the hell alone? Anyone with a shred of humanity? No.
Kay Burley was intruding. She was not showing. She was telling. She became the story. We are keen to see. But the 24-hours news cycle creates its own narrative. The grieving are reduced to actors in the rolling show and those edited highlights packages.
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Posted: 5th, October 2012 | In: Reviews Comment (1) | TrackBack | Permalink
