Does The Way The Media Are Reporting The Claudia Lawrence Disappearance Remind You...

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...Of The Way They Handle...? ... prostitute murders? Seems to me that over the last few months they have slowly been digging and reporting on Claudias complex life, as if she was the town bike and somehow deserved what's happened to her because of her unsavoury antics as if she was asking for it.

It reminds me of the time prostitutes go missing and/or are murdered when all the cockroaches in the media crawl all over and sensationalise someones private life to the extent that they happily gloss over the fact that a daughter, mother, sister, young woman is missing.

Makes me sick.
 
What if it turns out she was murdered by a man who had an affair with her or a jilted wife?

Do you think it would then be considered clever in hindsight to have kept that information quiet to protect her dignity.

Is her dignity worth more than her life or bringing justice for her?
 
I don't see any evidence that people think she "deserved" what happened to her. In the same way as the recent Suffolk prostitute murders - they were reported in a very sensitive way - reporters and journalists didn't just say "so and so was a prostitute" - there was information on their troubled lives, where life went wrong for them and interviews with the girl's mothers.

The truth has to be told because that is what could lead the police to the truth. If we didn't know that the girls murdered in Suffolk were prostitutes - the criminal might never have been caught. Claudia clearly lives an independent lifestyle and yes the FACTS are she has affairs with married men - it doesn't suggest that she deserves to go missing but it does suggest that the police and the public need to know certain information because it could bring vital evidence forward. The other option is of course, not to release any information, give the impression Claudia was a reserved, quiet lass who hadn't put a foot wrong in life and see what leads came in then.
 
FFS you've changed ya tune!!!

makes me sick too, but it gives you and dave s summat to get on ya moral high horses about.........

Edit: At the risk of being totally boring, I agree with hypocrite.... yet again!
 
It's unpleasant to think that her life is being turned into something sordid by the press. While the facts are relevant, the way they present them, makes her seem unpleasant to some.

Terms like "The only serious boyfriend... " and "targeted married men", make it clear that they are painting a picture of an unpleasant person. That has the potential to damage the hunt for her, as people may be less interested in finding someone that is represented as unpleasant.

I couldn't give two hoots about her lifestyle. I do remember her dad's tear stained face, with sunken, bloodshot eyes. I think of him and how awful it must be.
 
Anything to sell the rags they call newspapers.

An investigation is supposed to be confidential. Why on earth should be public know about her private life? If those details are relevant to the investigation, its only the investigators that should know, not the voyeuristic public.

Its sad to realise how many cases have not been resolved because of this bad taste in so called journalism. Makes me sick too.
 
I couldn't disagree more - I think the media have actually been really sensitive about this particular case, to be honest. Surprisingly so in the case of some tabloids.

What you seem to be objecting to is truth. If she was an adulterous homewrecker with 40 notches on her bedpost then it's completely dishonest to portray her as a virtuous angel - because in all probability, it's entirely relevant to the fact that she's gone missing in the first place.
 
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