Do not judge this question until you have read it! The media coverage of Madeline is every where,?

Question

Post offices, banks, shops radio, tv mags and newspapers, billboards etc etc. This is really good, please don't get me wrong. Does this mean that from now on every missing child will get the same media coverage? They never did this in the past. If not....what make this one abduction more special than all the rest of the children that get taken.?

Answer 1

The media attention - and the law enforcement attention - is because the parents are well-to-do. If this were a poor black kid living in the ghetto somewhere, there would not be such hoopla for several reasons:
a) Like it or not, law enforcement and the media has a bias and extreme prejudice against minorities, or those who are not financially comfortable. They simply are not going to invest as much time or as many resources in trying to retrieve a poor person because (s)he is not as important to society;
b) Like it or not, the poor black kid's parents probably would not have the wherewithal, knowledge, connections or influence to garner this much media attention;
c) Like it or not, there would not have been such an outpouring of generosity and donations had this child not been from an upper-class family. Why did a famous billionaire author choose to contribute to this incident and not the hundreds of other similar incidents in play around the world? The same question could be posed to the billionaire airline owner and actor. Why don't these people establish a fund that could be used to help recover ALL the missing children in the world?
d) Like it or not, law enforcement always greases the "squeaky wheel". As long as the media keeps focusing on this one child, authorities will pour all their resources into her recovery.
I realize child abduction is probably not as prevalent in the U.K. as it is in the U.S., but it still smacks of an unfair and unbalanced political, legal and social system that caters to those with more wealth, power or influence. Every child abduction should be treated with equal interest. -RKO- 06/10/07

Answer 2

So you figure every minority kid who has gone missing since Madeline is getting the same coverage? Or do you think that no kids have been abducted since then and they are just clearing space for the next one? No,this case is not changing anything. The media likes to focus on certain cases. Not the hundreds of others that happen every day.

Answer 3

simple answer, no...
there will have been many missing children around the world since madeline and none of them have had anything like the coverage...
what makes it special? the fact her parents are middle class and articulate, know how to handle the media, have well connected friends, the fact she is British and white, many other similar reasons which make the whole thing quite distasteful to me,
if people are truely concerned about madeline you would think they would be equally concerned about all the rest of the children who go missing but i really don't think most people are...

Answer 4

For some reason I find this kidnapping odd cause, parents were few hundred feet away having dinner while their daughter slept....and yet, the kidnapper somehow "knew" Madeline is alone in the hotel......I guess thats why they are making this a big deal compared to other kidnapping cases.....

Answer 5

Her parent have money, simple as that.