Police's stupid Soham comment?

[Goodsoulette]

Although in retrospect not the cleverest way of getting his point across does anyone else think the comment was taken out of context.

I am sure the press jumped on this cause it knocked them. I think he was just trying to highlight the differences in the way coverage is handled for different ethnic groups. I know when with the Millie Dowler case the same week a boy of 15 from a Scottish council estate went missing and was found murdered, it didnt make the national news. So it seems to apply to sex and and what estate you live on too.

However, I believe that the Soham case would always have been a huge deal because of it being 2 children and a woman kind of being involved in it.

[gary baldy]

Steve Luts - i understand why you disagree with me. I like to think i am mostly a reasonable person (and so do you apparently - thanks for that) but occasionally i have extreme views on things i that really annoy me and this is one of them.
I think my views are 'on topic' because i agree with Blair.
Your contention that black on black murder is not newsworthy because it so common. I would argue that because it is so common it is even more newsworthy.
We have become comtemptuous of certain murders - its as though they are 'asking for it'. I dont think i play the race card - round here young men of all races die in guncrime every week - although it is usually black men - it hink this is more of a class thing.
We should be asking serious questions about how we treat these crimes and treating them as just another statistic only serves to create an atmosphere in our inner cities where 'life is cheap'.
We'll have to agree to disagree on this one eh?
Now you go and put on your rain mac and do some shoegazing and i'll slip on my sequined boob tube and we'll boogie on over to Music!

[Goodsoulette]

Why is colour coming into it? a life is a life.

[Steve_Luts]

Goodsoulette - Gary and I were just having a bit of intellectual tennis regarding a comment he made in one of his earlier posts, which I picked up on. His view is that murdered black people are under-represented in the press, mine is that, very regretably, the homicid erate amongst black males is much higher than white males, thus as more commonplace in relation to per head of population by ethnicity, each black murder in isolation gets less coverage.

I think we both have a valid point, so don't propose to continue this one, happy to agree to disagree. Just like to close on saying I agree with all of Gary's last post - in an ideal world there would be no murders whether black, white, pink, blue or green. Then what would they fil the papers with? - probably more Big Brother cr@p!!

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