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In defence of UK Lancashire Police’s Nicola Bulley disclosure
Why MSM accusations of sexism and oversharing are short-sighted
TW: Missng persons, mental health, addiction. Not affiliated with Lancashire Police.
In the UK, a missing person’s case became an unhealthy obsession of public imagination — and led to endless mainstream media controversy.
However, it is the mainstream media (MSM) controversy itself, and not the disclosure, which — until a discovery this weekend (tw) — was chronically putting the missing person and her family at risk.
However the media and even select MPs have chosen to blame the hard working police officers doing the actual police work.
“Disclosure is not equivocal to discrimination… the police have been failed by the media.”
The worst part is, the mainstream media are not pausing in their relentless pursuit of clicks.
News outlets have been prolific in their framing and reframing of the story. While comms from Lancashire Police were destined to change and adapt, reportage utilised the release of new information as clickbait, for…
