Why Does The News Mock The Immigrant Crisis In Europe?

[dance2trance]

I am appalled by the indifference of the BBC/ITV news coverage. All the media platforms in question do is pretend to be sympathetic but just bang on about 'small children' or 'little children' suffering. Is that the end of human sympathy? 'Larger children' - well who cares about them? That seems to be the attitude. Adults - well they can just die seems to be the attitude they are all terrorists anyway - that seems to be the attitude. To whom do the 'small' and 'little' children depend? Is it thin air? There is a need to preserve family units and deliver all to peace and safety.

The media is treating this humanitarian disaster as if it were a 'Band Aid' appeal and just saying 'Aaah bless look at the little children' for a couple of days will shower them with blessings giving enough time prior to dashing off to West End restaurants which none of us could afford. They offer NOTHING. Dreadful. It is appalling. ALL ARE SUFFERING!! We need to help everyone large, medium and small and little.

[Baldric]

What have you done or are going to do to help?

[jourdain2]

Children are not answerable for their parents decisions. That's a starter. Me, I'm sorry if I seem hard, but parents are answerable for the predicaments their kids are in. I suppose that in essence I am saying they same as you - but that is why children get the most mileage.

[Old_Geezer]

Indeed. They need to be helped in the camps in Turkey whilst they await an end to hostilities in Syria, allowing them to return home.

[Ringlet]

Maybe if you preached less and did more, others would follow your example and heed your actions.

[TWR]

Britain has also got a problem Dance, Food Banks, poverty, NHS, Jobless, Housing, we all have sympathy with these people, but think about our own first, their own Country's Government should be sorting out their own problems.

[Hypognosis]

@dance2trance

If you're trying to say that the mainstream media are sinking into sentimentality then I have to agree with you. Furthermore, I find it somewhat insulting that anyone feels it necessary to provoke me into feeling sympathy for the plight of others. All we should need are the plain and simple facts.

It should go with out saying it but you only get one childhood and you only get one window of opportunity to raise your kids so it's a ***** that war comes along at that stage in a person's life. It's not their fault (give or take either their support for Assad or their opposition to him) and things need to be done.

[venator]

"We need to help everyone large, medium and small and little."
Once the 2 or 3 million genuine refugees are in the EU, the people smugglers will still have a profitable business exporting some more millions from Africa.

Cameron has the right idea - fund the camps outside the EU and take in only people who haven't paid the smugglers.

[Hypognosis]

I haven't asked yet because it seems to be such a dumb question (given the answer) but, if they have thousands of dollars to pay to people smugglers, why don't they just get on Turkish Airlines, Easyjet or Ryanair (if sufficiently desperate) and fly to their country of choice?

Answer is, of course that they'd be processed (in visa terms) as a tourist, on arrival and expected to fly back, at cost. Then they'd be penniless and on the wrong side of the Med.

Given that a tourist can abscond while on holiday in the UK, I don't understand why they take risky boat trips instead of jets.