Media Hypocrisy
Madeleine McCann has been missing for over 5 months. The media obsession with this case has resulted in headlines and stories worldwide, and apparently they have raised over a million pounds in donations.
You know, I’m sorry that this happened, and it’s great that somehow this story touched the hearts of the general public enough to raise all that money and attention.
But if there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s hypocrisy.
In West Africa, for example, 200,000 children are sold into slavery every year. This is just one example of many.
“An estimated 800,000 underage prostitutes in Thailand, 400,000 in India, 250,000 in Brazil and 60,000 in the Philippines. The newest international sites for child prostitution: Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, China and the Dominican Republic.”
Source: Time Magazine
When you think about these statistics for just a moment, the amount of media attention devoted to the Madeleine McCann case seems unjust, offensive and insulting to the hundreds of thousands of children & families in similar situations who aren’t lucky enough to have a media frenzy surrounding them. It smacks of sensationalism just to sell newspapers.
Just my $0.02.