Female police officer, collapes and dies.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....sing-phone-thief.html

Apart from a short mention on LBC radio, I have not heard of any reports on this sad event, on any TV news channels that I have been watching.

Has anyone else missed news of this tragic happening?

[jno]

do you think police are automatically more newsworthy than lesser mortals, aog?

As far as I can see the news did make at least three national news websites, so you can hardly claim it's been suppressed.

http://www.mirror.co....icewoman-dies-1419331

[anotheoldgit]

jno

/// do you think police are automatically more newsworthy than lesser mortals, aog? ///

Oh dear here we go again, this time for daring to mention the police, I do hope some are taking note of how a perfectly innocent question can be turned into something confrontational by some.

/// As far as I can see the news did make at least three national news websites, so you can hardly claim it's been suppressed. ///

No one is claiming the news has be suppressed, neither was I saying it was not reported in the newspapers, hence my original link.

But what I did say "I had not heard of any reports on this sad event, on any TV news channels that I have been watching".

So please don't start, just for the hell of it.

[andy-hughes]

I have not had a chance to check out any online news today, didn;t hear it on the radio this morning on the way to work, so I imagine it will be in tomorrow's Mail print editions, as most of the serious on-line stories are.

So yes, to date i have missed it.

"do you think police are automatically more newsworthy than lesser mortals, aog?"

I think you are being a little provocative here jno, I don;t think that's what AOG was saying, or intended to infer.

I would also agree with AOG (not a common occurence, but it does hapen!) that this is not simply the case of a fit woman dying, but of a serving officer dying in the exection of her duty, which is certainly not the same thing.

A tragedy for all concerned - even for these two miscreants who will have their responsibility in this tragedy to reflect on for a very long time.

[squarebear]

I'd not heard of this story until this thread.

[hc4361]

Andy, it happened Monday night as was in yesterday's online Mail. I can't see it being in tomorrow's printed edition.

[jno]

it was a straightforward question, andy (and aog), not intended provocatively. I'm unclear why aog thinks the story of a woman dying should be covered by national news (though in many cases it has been). What makes it newsworthy? Is it because she was a policewoman?

[jno]

sorry, andy, the second half of your post was off my screen when I wrote my last post. "Dying in the execution of her duty" is correct but I suggested earlier that it's wrong to categorise this case alongside those where an officer is actually killed by a criminal. This was just a sad accident.

[anotheoldgit]

andy-hughes

Welcome back.

Thank you for that support Andy.

Can you now see what I sometimes have to put up with, untrue accusations being just one.

[anotheoldgit]

jno

/// I'm unclear why aog thinks the story of a woman dying should be covered by national news (though in many cases it has
been). ///

That is not the case, many women die and shouldn't be covered in the national news that is obvious to anyone except you apparently.

Men, Women all die at some time, that is nature, would I be silly enough to state they all should be news worthy?

/// What makes it newsworthy? Is it because she was a policewoman? ///

In this case yes, that is the whole point of my thread.

But it might have been a School Master dying chasing after one of his pupils, or an Ambulance driver attacked and killed attending a drunken disturbance, or a Fireman getting killed down a mine shaft trying to recover a trapped person, and any other matter of things, all which most likely would have warranted a mention on the TV news.

[Zacs-Master]

I would steal the water from the world and hold it to ransom ha ha ha ha HA HA HA!!!!

[Zacs-Master]

damn wrong thread.

[Zeuhl]

<a School Master dying chasing after one of his pupils
an Ambulance driver attacked and killed attending a drunken disturbance
a Fireman getting killed down a mine shaft >

None of those examples is comparable to the case of the police officer dying

two of them are people being killed by external factors and one is someone dying due to exertions they would not be expected to make in their normal work.

Police officers do expect to run and chase people in their work
It appears that the officer in this case had an undiagnosed fault to her heart so, though tragic, it was death by natural causes.

So less newsworthy than death by assault or collapsing mine shafts.

[bednobs]

it was on radio 5 a lot

[emmie]

it was reported in our local paper a week ago, as you say very sad, oh and in the mail yesterday.

[anotheoldgit]

em10

/// it was reported in our local paper a week ago, as you say very sad, oh and in the mail yesterday.///

As per my link, but has anyone seen it reported on a TV news Channel?

[emmie]

no i don't think i have but i have almost given up watching the tv news..