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Nicola Bulley
“We will never forget Nikki, how could we, she was the centre of our world, she was the one who made our lives so special and nothing will cast a shadow over that … Our girls will get the support they need from the people who love them the most”. Then came the part focusing on the press.
“And it saddens us to think that one day we will have to explain to them that the press and members of the public accused their dad of wrongdoing, misquoted and vilified friends and family. This is absolutely appalling, they have to be held accountable this cannot happen to another family”.
Do go on. “We tried last night to take in what we had been told in the day, only to have Sky News and ITV making contact with us directly when we expressly asked for privacy. They again, have taken it upon themselves to run stories about us to sell papers and increase their own profiles. It is shameful they have acted in this way. Leave us alone now”. It wasn’t just the press.
But it was the press who continued to get it in the neck. “Do the press and other media channels and so called professionals not know when to stop? These are our lives and our children's lives”. So let’s mosey over to the Daily Mail, to see just how full their disclosure of the criticism is this morning.
Except it isn’t: all the media criticism has been excised from the Mail’s report. All of it. But there is plenty of unpleasantness being aimed at the cops, following two of their pundits indulging in highly personal attacks on one of the senior officers involved, something Zelo Street covered yesterday.
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As David Challen observed, “Newspapers front pages cover Nicola Bulley, however none (excl The Guardian + the i) report the family's criticism of the media + press … Mail and the i have even gone to the lengths to EDIT the text of the family's statement to omit the worst of their criticism of the press?!”
Professor Brian Cathcart reminded us “Under their ‘Editors’ Code of Practice’ every UK national newspaper makes this promise to the public: ‘In cases involving personal grief or shock, enquiries and approaches must be made with sympathy and discretion and publication handled sensitively”.
Or, in this case, maybe not. And nothing will be done, not by the press, and not even by our elected representatives, so craven and timid have they become in the face of the mafia operation that is the Fourth Estate. Campaigner Evan Harris made this point on the Radio 4 Today programme.
“There’s impunity, effectively. We saw this with Grenfell, we saw this with the Manchester Arena bombing. Every time there’s a tragedy like this, there is criticism of the newspapers and nothing happens. Suella Braverman and Yvette Cooper and Rishi Sunak have criticised the Police. Maybe they’re right, maybe they’re wrong. Will we hear a politician get off their knees to attack the press, the power of the press and their abuse of ordinary people? I doubt it”. Our media class has once again behaved abominably.
But in their own minds, they have done nothing wrong. As with any addiction, those addicted have first to admit their problem. It’s all gone quiet.
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11 comments:
I'm local to the area (it's literally less than 2 miles down the road). It's not been mentioned, but the reason the Police published details about Nicola's issues was to spike a tabloid story that had dug that information up and was about to plaster it over the front page.
British press and broadcast media "journalists" and "editors" are rightly loathed for their lies, hypocrisy and poisonous far right propaganda. The prime example is their peddling of evil filth in the Hillsborough disaster. A deep and wide stain they will never remove.
A few hundred London-based cowardly gobshites are responsible for helping this country become a tragic, corrupt laughing stock in the world.
They are little more than sociopathic tramps on the make. A collective of mediocrities cringing to owner thugs. "Mafia" is the least of it.
The press behaved badly (as always) but you have to admit that in this case, when trust in the police is at its lowest (for protecting sex abusers within their ranks), their communication strategy, if not the enquiry itself, was abysmal. There's something not sitting right.
Anonymous 13.52,
I've found online a clip of a man whose measured tone and subtlety of expression closely resembles that of your good self.
Are you by chance related?
twitter.com/MittensOff/status/1627287783025831937
@16:19.
Try not to be a Silly Billy Bertie.
I don't do Twitter or any of the other birdcages. I leave that to Mr. Micawbers like you.😂
Had the police found the body a lot sooner, a lot of the speculation by the both official and social media would have been avoided. It's ironic that the body was eventually found by members of the public, the very people that the authorities had gone to some lengths to discourage from visiting the area.
@17:25
Hint: @16:19 is not seriously suggesting that you are Thug Gullis.
@14:34.
Note: It doesn't matter what Mister Micawber says. Or you. Not at any time, especially when the subject is the tragic death of a vulnerable woman.
But I don't expect you to understand that.
@21:18
Thank you for advising me that my views don't count at any time.
@13:05.
My pleasure. Consider it a social service.
Only here to help.
Just the merest hint of an overreaction from anonymous there, eh?
And it's hard, after his years of filling up this space with unrelenting hatred and bile, to accept his claim to finer feelings.
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