Comments on: The Fritzl case and media hypocrisy http://www.liberalconspiracy.org/2008/05/15/the-fritzl-case-and-media-hypocrisy/ If there wasn't one before, it's time we started it... Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:28:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: CB http://www.liberalconspiracy.org/2008/05/15/the-fritzl-case-and-media-hypocrisy/#comment-10612 CB Sun, 18 May 2008 17:37:55 +0000 http://www.liberalconspiracy.org/2008/05/15/the-fritzl-case-and-media-hypocrisy/#comment-10612 Media frenzy - agreed, things that happen overseas don't have reporting restrictions,as are UK crimes where no charges have yet been brought etc, but who ever reported that such things 'don't happen' over here? I've not read a single report that says or has implied that, and my job is to read the papers for a living to find press coverage. The Jersey care home abuse/murder investigation, though not incest, is analagous to Fritzl, and that was extensively in the papers every day with new salacious details. And isn't Jersey under British sovereignty? Berate the press as much as you like, though a better target is the highly selective PCC guidelines and their toothless approach towards enforcing them, but do it for things they've implicitly or explicitly said, not stuff you've conjured up. Media frenzy - agreed, things that happen overseas don’t have reporting restrictions,as are UK crimes where no charges have yet been brought etc, but who ever reported that such things ‘don’t happen’ over here? I’ve not read a single report that says or has implied that, and my job is to read the papers for a living to find press coverage.

The Jersey care home abuse/murder investigation, though not incest, is analagous to Fritzl, and that was extensively in the papers every day with new salacious details. And isn’t Jersey under British sovereignty? Berate the press as much as you like, though a better target is the highly selective PCC guidelines and their toothless approach towards enforcing them, but do it for things they’ve implicitly or explicitly said, not stuff you’ve conjured up.

]]> By: john b http://www.liberalconspiracy.org/2008/05/15/the-fritzl-case-and-media-hypocrisy/#comment-10518 john b Fri, 16 May 2008 11:14:46 +0000 http://www.liberalconspiracy.org/2008/05/15/the-fritzl-case-and-media-hypocrisy/#comment-10518 "ah, but not all of the victims were." I don't think there have been any reports - possibly because Austria has similar reporting restrictions to the UK on this (?) - that any *sexual* offences were committed against children under 18. As I understand it, Fritzl is in custody charged with rape and incest against an adult, and manslaughter of the baby that died, and that is all that's been released by the police. "And there are also a lot of laws in place for reporting rape cases too, particularly incest/rape." True. But Fred and Rose West still attracted some pretty sensationalist reporting, even though many of the family members and lodgers they'd abused as children and adults were still alive. “ah, but not all of the victims were.”

I don’t think there have been any reports - possibly because Austria has similar reporting restrictions to the UK on this (?) - that any *sexual* offences were committed against children under 18. As I understand it, Fritzl is in custody charged with rape and incest against an adult, and manslaughter of the baby that died, and that is all that’s been released by the police.

“And there are also a lot of laws in place for reporting rape cases too, particularly incest/rape.”

True. But Fred and Rose West still attracted some pretty sensationalist reporting, even though many of the family members and lodgers they’d abused as children and adults were still alive.

]]> By: Pennyred http://www.liberalconspiracy.org/2008/05/15/the-fritzl-case-and-media-hypocrisy/#comment-10488 Pennyred Thu, 15 May 2008 19:32:02 +0000 http://www.liberalconspiracy.org/2008/05/15/the-fritzl-case-and-media-hypocrisy/#comment-10488 ah, but not all of the victims were. And there are also a lot of laws in place for reporting rape cases too, particularly incest/rape. It's really quite stunning what doesn't get said. ah, but not all of the victims were. And there are also a lot of laws in place for reporting rape cases too, particularly incest/rape.
It’s really quite stunning what doesn’t get said.

]]> By: john b http://www.liberalconspiracy.org/2008/05/15/the-fritzl-case-and-media-hypocrisy/#comment-10475 john b Thu, 15 May 2008 13:28:44 +0000 http://www.liberalconspiracy.org/2008/05/15/the-fritzl-case-and-media-hypocrisy/#comment-10475 Surely the Fritzl case -could- have been reported in the UK, because the victim was over 18 at the time of the offences with which Fritzl has been charged? Surely the Fritzl case -could- have been reported in the UK, because the victim was over 18 at the time of the offences with which Fritzl has been charged?

]]> By: Ben G http://www.liberalconspiracy.org/2008/05/15/the-fritzl-case-and-media-hypocrisy/#comment-10469 Ben G Thu, 15 May 2008 12:12:18 +0000 http://www.liberalconspiracy.org/2008/05/15/the-fritzl-case-and-media-hypocrisy/#comment-10469 Excellently put Laurie. As with the Madeline case, they can get away with such shit as it happened overseas. The behaviour of the UK press over this has been been as utterly loathsome as it has been totally unsurprising. Excellently put Laurie. As with the Madeline case, they can get away with such shit as it happened overseas. The behaviour of the UK press over this has been been as utterly loathsome as it has been totally unsurprising.

]]> By: V Profane http://www.liberalconspiracy.org/2008/05/15/the-fritzl-case-and-media-hypocrisy/#comment-10467 V Profane Thu, 15 May 2008 12:00:18 +0000 http://www.liberalconspiracy.org/2008/05/15/the-fritzl-case-and-media-hypocrisy/#comment-10467 It better not be Zombie Strippers. It was rubbish. It better not be Zombie Strippers. It was rubbish.

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