On 9th June “Curly’s Corner Shop” highlighted local press coverage of the drug related gangland shooting of David “Noddy” Rice. Noddy was shot nine times whilst sitting in his car in a South Shield’s coastal car park, an area frequented by families and tourists; a barbaric killing by any societies standards. The tone of the post centred on the fact that perhaps press coverage had gone to far, glorifying the killing to the degree that the myth had become more important than the issue of the ramifications of drug supplying and drug taking. There was also the inference that perhaps the Shield’s Gazette had made a lot of money from personal advertisements placed in the paper after the murder and on subsequent anniversaries. I attached a couple of comments to the post as I was in full agreement with the argument. The paper had gone to far and ignored the issues. Where was the front page coverage of people whose lives had been blighted by drug taking?
The actions then of Mr Rice’s son, Ryan Burn, must be manor from heaven for the journalist’s at the Gazette. “Noddy Son’s Stash of Weapons” is blazed across the front page of tonight’s edition. Mr Ryan, returning from holiday in Thailand, was found with a suitcase of knuckle-dusters and police style batons stashed within his luggage.
And so the cycle begins again. The Gazette’s sensational coverage or the spiral of an individual in to violence? Both!
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It gets worse, I've gone for sensationalism too today.
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