Current Affairs Missing woman in Lancashire

[Simon Buttle]

Mackenzie Crooks 62 year old sister in law who is currently receiving chemotherapy has been missing since 14th feb. He has appealed for local people to help with the search.

Why is that not headline news? On bbc, it’s under the regional news page for Sussex.

I’m very cynical about the media and politics, but things (that happen fairly regularly) usually only hit the news when there’s a political aspect to it. (See Baby P which was politicised yet roughly 1 baby dies a week in the uk due to abuse/neglect).

This is literally right around the corner from where my mum lives. There are posters up locally everywhere and even I recognise the woman just from seeing her about at times in the local shop (it's in the middle of nowhere) but given she is related to someone who is fairly famous the coverage has been fairly quiet so far.

 

[Lanolin]

Some one called into LBC stating the same case was shut down by the presenter does 10 pm slot in the week, anyway caller used the airtime and point to raise this young girl disappearance. Reckon most people have not heard a thing, I know I would not have had not been listening.

Missing teen from Greenwich last seen two days ago

Police are searching for a missing girl from Greenwich.

uk.news.yahoo.com

The idea of 'missing white woman syndrome' has been done to death but there is also more to it on top of that. Realistically, the media aren't going to report on every single person who goes missing, or every crime that gets committed or whatever, there are far too many of these things happening so there has to be an interesting angle. Nicola Bulley had an easy angle to report on, it seemed like a mystery and it's easy for people to think 'she wouldn't walk out on her job/kids/dog' etc and so automatically believe that something serious must have happened. When it's a teenager or whatever it's more likely that people just put it down to them running away and have no real interest in it. It's sad but it's true.

 

[tsubaki]

The idea of 'missing white woman syndrome' has been done to death but there is also more to it on top of that. Realistically, the media aren't going to report on every single person who goes missing, or every crime that gets committed or whatever, there are far too many of these things happening so there has to be an interesting angle. Nicola Bulley had an easy angle to report on, it seemed like a mystery and it's easy for people to think 'she wouldn't walk out on her job/kids/dog' etc and so automatically believe that something serious must have happened. When it's a teenager or whatever it's more likely that people just put it down to them running away and have no real interest in it. It's sad but it's true.

TBF it should really have been "missing attractive woman syndrome" that they focus on.

I don't know if people remember that horror who got done for a double murder and interfering with corpses in the morgue he worked at a while back but the vast majority of papers selected one victim out of the hundred plus people whose remains he messed with. Report after report came out about his crimes, almost all of them showing a picture of her looking lovely.

It is so widespread amongst the industry (focusing on attractive females) its almost a reflex, even when the article itself is describing things clearly against objectifying women in this way. For an example, here is an article in the Guardian a few years ago that looked at the SNP declining to make misogynistic harassment illegal.

The picture sub invites you to look down her top at her rack.

 

[Harryflashman]

The idea of 'missing white woman syndrome' has been done to death but there is also more to it on top of that. Realistically, the media aren't going to report on every single person who goes missing, or every crime that gets committed or whatever, there are far too many of these things happening so there has to be an interesting angle. Nicola Bulley had an easy angle to report on, it seemed like a mystery and it's easy for people to think 'she wouldn't walk out on her job/kids/dog' etc and so automatically believe that something serious must have happened. When it's a teenager or whatever it's more likely that people just put it down to them running away and have no real interest in it. It's sad but it's true.

It’s been done to death but that doesn’t mean it’s not a thing . White , middle class , photogenic and the story is suddenly viewed as more relatable and certainly a higher profile . Missing persons , murders and just about anything gains traction .

I take your point on the ‘mystery angle ‘ put I’ll point out the police suggested on pretty much day one that their working theory was she’d gone in the river and nobody else was involved . Lo and behold their theory was right and no great mystery , the mystery such as it was seems to have been created by a media desperate to keep the matter in the news and various fans hungry talking heads .

 

[Lanolin]

It’s been done to death but that doesn’t mean it’s not a thing . White , middle class , photogenic and the story is suddenly viewed as more relatable and certainly a higher profile . Missing persons , murders and just about anything gains traction .

I take your point on the ‘mystery angle ‘ put I’ll point out the police suggested on pretty much day one that their working theory was she’d gone in the river and nobody else was involved . Lo and behold their theory was right and no great mystery , the mystery such as it was seems to have been created by a media desperate to keep the matter in the news and various fans hungry talking heads .

Im not saying it’s not a thing. Im saying it’s very much a thing, and everyone knows it is, to the point that it even has a name. But i will tell you now that Nicola Bulley is not the first woman meeting that criteria to go missing this year, nor necessarily the most obvious example of it. She was, however, the most ‘interesting’ story, which is the point I’m making. I work with the press every day, it’s my job to get things in/keep things out of the media, im fully aware of what floats their boat.

 

[Jebus_lives]

I've refrained from adding anything into this thread, because I felt I had nothing to contribute other than pure speculation or opinion.

Absolutely nobody has come out of this story with any dignity.

Not the police, the talking heads, the specialists offering 'assistance', the media or the public thinking they were in their own netflix documentary. I'd like to think the deceased would, but tragically no, 'everyone' needed to know all the details of her life and her families life.

I hope her family get space to grieve and process the news and the community is left to mourn and recover over time.

 

[Harryflashman]

Im not saying it’s not a thing. Im saying it’s very much a thing, and everyone knows it is, to the point that it even has a name. But i will tell you now that Nicola Bulley is not the first woman meeting that criteria to go missing this year, nor necessarily the most obvious example of it. She was, however, the most ‘interesting’ story, which is the point I’m making. I work with the press every day, it’s my job to get things in/keep things out of the media, im fully aware of what floats their boat.

Sorry mate I wasn’t trying to teach you to suck eggs . You’re right she isn’t and it was I suppose a perfect storm and reading what you’ve written there I totally understand.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Feel for her family

Everyone needs to leave them alone so they can grieve

 

[tsubaki]

Mic Wright has put together a fantastic article on this, well worth anyone to read:

No shame in the circle jerk

The link between appalling coverage of Nicola Bulley's disappearance and cheers for a Telegraph hack heading to GB News? An industrial absence of embarrassment.

brokenbottleboy.substack.com

 

[Blue Piper]

I've refrained from adding anything into this thread, because I felt I had nothing to contribute other than pure speculation or opinion.

Absolutely nobody has come out of this story with any dignity.

Not the police, the talking heads, the specialists offering 'assistance', the media or the public thinking they were in their own netflix documentary. I'd like to think the deceased would, but tragically no, 'everyone' needed to know all the details of her life and her families life.

I hope her family get space to grieve and process the news and the community is left to mourn and recover over time.

I see that the ICO has asked the police to explain under what legal basis they disclosed sensitive personal information. Be interesting to see where this ends up. I cannot see their excuse of "the papers were going to publish details" working with the ICO

 

[Jebus_lives]

I see that the ICO has asked the police to explain under what legal basis they disclosed sensitive personal information. Be interesting to see where this ends up. I cannot see their excuse of "the papers were going to publish details" working with the ICO

I'd heard, how accurate this is I'm not sure, it was because the family wanted to 'get ahead' of the story knowing it was going to be published.

Which is shameful if true.

 

[tsubaki]

I see that the ICO has asked the police to explain under what legal basis they disclosed sensitive personal information. Be interesting to see where this ends up. I cannot see their excuse of "the papers were going to publish details" working with the ICO

Of course it won't, but that is the perverse world we live in nowadays with regards to the press. The cops will (as Richard Brunstrom once was) be found at fault for knowing that the press would misuse the info but releasing it anyway.

IPSO will remain silent, just as it has after the entire national print media saw fit to edit a statement released by a bereaved family to remove the part that blamed them.

 

[Ferguson1878]

I see that the ICO has asked the police to explain under what legal basis they disclosed sensitive personal information. Be interesting to see where this ends up. I cannot see their excuse of "the papers were going to publish details" working with the ICO

The daily Mail ran the headline about her drinkin with two pictures of her both with a bevy in her hand can’t stand that paper

 

[Del-boy]

I see that the ICO has asked the police to explain under what legal basis they disclosed sensitive personal information. Be interesting to see where this ends up. I cannot see their excuse of "the papers were going to publish details" working with the ICO

Better is was done with them fully aware at a controlled press conference. By the sound of it, it would have been the family finding out via the front pages over their breakfast the following day.

 

[PhilM]

The daily Mail ran the headline about her drinkin with two pictures of her both with a bevy in her hand can’t stand that paper

The Daily Mail is a rag that spits bile, prejudice and hate, with the intention of riling people. It’s how it sells papers, and from that money from advertising.

It’s not a newspaper - it’s a glorified gossip column or right-leaning propaganda.