lmbo this post is longer than i thought it would be tl;dr = british media sucks

[bazzu]

20 days ago a 4 year old girl with a creepy as shit eye got kidnapped in Portugal because her middle-classed white parents wanted to get pissed up instead of playing Uno with their kids

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[anonymous]

I completely agree with you on this (although I think one reason a large number of the other missing children haven't received so much attention is because most of them either appear to have run away or have been taken by relatives, rather than by an unknown stranger, which probably puts Maddy in more immediate danger) - the media circus is crazy. A quick search on YouTube for 'Madeleine McCann' brings up an insane amount of videos with pictures of the cute white four-year-old girl and glittery slogans begging this 'little angel' to be returned to her parents - because nothing helps the cause like shitty videos set to inappropriate music

[heybishop]

This is why the media upsets me so much. Because news can't be news anymore, it has to be an event.

I wish I was exaggerating, but now every time it rains, it's billed as a "weather hazard warning". What the fuck? People aren't going to melt.

It's ugly what the media is doing. It's part of what's motivating me to make the TV series I'm co-writing. Media-induced hysteria & mind-control is going to be a major theme.