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Simon Bucks, What benefits, other than satisfying peoples' morbid curiosity, do you think the media coverage of the McCann case has brought?
Asked by sunnyday on Oct 31 2007 2:58:53 AM and supported by 33 members
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The McCann case touches anyone with children who has had to make daily decisions about looking after them. I completely reject the idea that our coverage is only designed to satisfy morbid curiosity. But all news coverage depends on the consumers being interested, or indeed curious, in the subject. The implication of your question is that we should prescribe what people should be interested in, a philosophy more suited to a dictatorship than a democracy. MORE!

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