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    From Wayne Harris@2:221/6 to All on Sat Oct 2 03:19:22 2021
    How is your local press reporting about Brian Laundrie? The case has
    been so sensational, why would a foreign press be totally silent about
    it?

    For instance, remember the case involving Amanda Knox? Surely Europe
    made a fuss about it, so did the US but other countries really did not.
    Is it that the press sometimes finds a case like that to be totally
    irrelevant to a country, say, in Oceania? It might be pretty irrelevant indeed, but it's not like the press guides itself by relevance.

    So I have been wondering --- what is the guiding principle there when
    the news isn't anything too relevant to the press' business --- such as
    these typical crime cases?

    Thank you.

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  • From Paul Quinn@3:640/1384 to Wayne Harris on Sat Oct 2 12:42:58 2021
    Hi! Wayne,

    On 02 Oct 2021, Wayne Harris said the following...

    How is your local press reporting about Brian Laundrie?

    Who? Why?

    Cheers,
    Paul.
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  • From Ward Dossche@2:292/854 to Wayne Harris on Sat Oct 2 10:02:47 2021
    How is your local press reporting about Brian Laundrie? The case has
    been so sensational, why would a foreign press be totally silent about
    it?

    We get daily updates in Belgium. The reason for that is TV has permanent correspondents in the USA who report on US headline-items live an a nearly day by day basis.

    So let me ask you a question. Do the names Sarah Everard, Sabina Nessa, Julie Van Uytsel and countless other slain young innocent women with their lives still ahead of them make the news overthere or are only American girls important enough?

    The real issue being that so many females esperience violence just because they are female and unwilling to submit ..

    \%/@rd

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  • From Björn Felten@2:203/2 to Wayne Harris on Sat Oct 2 12:10:47 2021
    How is your local press reporting about Brian Laundrie? The case has
    been so sensational, why would a foreign press be totally silent about
    it?

    I've been wondering why one single missing girl can be headline news for weeks and weeks.

    Is she really more important than watching how your democracy is being dismantled before your very eyes (unless your only news source is Fox News)? If you know about gerrymandering, Electoral College and filibuster, why don't you do anything about it?

    Is she really more important than why you've allowed corruption going so far, that you even no longer call bribes bribes but donations? Letting two senators prevent a long overdue *investment* in the US people rather than the usual *waste* on the 1% richest and the ever growing military?

    Is she really more important than the fact that USA is the most infected country on the planet and therefore partly responsible for the COVID-19 virus mutating into more and more dangerous versions?

    Maybe you should get your priorities straight and learn how to detect a deflection?

    ..

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  • From Wayne Harris@2:221/6 to Ward Dossche on Mon Oct 4 16:41:14 2021
    Ward Dossche - Wayne Harris <0@854.292.2> writes:

    How is your local press reporting about Brian Laundrie? The case
    has been so sensational, why would a foreign press be totally
    silent about it?

    We get daily updates in Belgium. The reason for that is TV has
    permanent correspondents in the USA who report on US headline-items
    live an a nearly day by day basis.

    Thanks. If a company isn't doing well, if it has cut down its
    correspondents, for example, that could explain why they're not taking advantage of such opportunities. A case like that, if they don't cover
    it too well, they probably can't profit much from it anyhow, so they
    might as well *not* advertise the case so that a population will get
    interested and consume the reporting from some other source.

    So let me ask you a question. Do the names Sarah Everard, Sabina
    Nessa, Julie Van Uytsel and countless other slain young innocent women
    with their lives still ahead of them make the news overthere or are
    only American girls important enough?

    Never heard of them. Your question doesn't apply because in the places
    I've been considering, not american girls are being reported either.

    The real issue being that so many females esperience violence just
    because they are female and unwilling to submit ..

    Just in case I didn't express myself well, I'm looking at the press
    itself in some corners of the world and trying to explain a bit of their
    latest behavior.

    Thanks for the info.
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