How Joanna Yeates Became A Daily Mail Parlour Game
JOANNA Yeates’s alleged killer Vincent Tabak is in court. And Chris Jefferies – the man monstered by the media – remains under police bail. He may yet have his day in court.
While we wait for the next instalment, let’s take a moment to look back at the Mail’s handling of the story do far. And it’s all about the question and how one woman’s death can be turned into a form of entertainment you can play along with at home. The question will be printed on cards and each player will deliver their answer in the form of a report. Bonus points will awarded for use of the word “blonde” and creating new questions:
“Is lovely Jo becoming just another thumbnail on the police website” – Liz Jones
“Did A Facebook friend kill Jo?”
“Was Joanna’s body hidden next to her flat?”
“Did Joanna Yates buy cider for her killer?”
“Could landlord hold key to Joanna’s murder”
“Did Jo buy dinner for her killer?”
“Are TWO killers are large?”
“Did Jo Yeates tip off her killer that she’d be home alone?”
“Was Jo strangled with her own sock?”
“Did killer strangle Jo with her own ski sock then take it as a trophy?”
Does the Mail enjoy a good murder..?
Posted: 25th, January 2011 | In: News Comments (9) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
January 25th, 2011 at 3:53 pm
Percy (no6)
They can do joined up writing?
And No8 that would never do, and can you imagine???
the footie results take longer to read than the news
See 4 children were killed in a housefire last night, and a toddler roaming round Westcliff at 11.pm, fortunately found by a law abiding person and not someone sinister
January 25th, 2011 at 3:47 pm
…as I may have mentioned before….the facts are …on average one woman is murdered every 3 days in the U.K….. so …not including males…or the Mail…if the papers were to report every murder…..there would not be enough room left in the papers for the sports pages….frightening thought…
January 25th, 2011 at 3:15 pm
I think I’ve said before about close family member bludgeoned to death in her bed some years ago around the time of the Rachel Nickell murder.
Her own father found her body.
Not blonde, bit overweight, worked in a call centre, separated, no children, council flat…..
No media interest boxes ticked.
It briefly made the locals but never the nationals… the killer has never been found.
The lack of interest is even more evident with the rise of the internet… I can find so little about it. Very very sad that a life meant so little to the journos of the time..
January 25th, 2011 at 3:14 pm
….what puzzles me…is why have you singled out the Mail.?..
January 25th, 2011 at 2:49 pm
Strangely 2 young men have been murdered in Essex in the past 10 days, and not a murmur about it in the Wail. The more responsible media have reported these just as tragic deaths of people a similar age to Joanna, but because they are not blonde and female it just doesn’t register.
January 25th, 2011 at 2:46 pm
3- it;s all tasteless. A woman has died. Most of us never knew her. But we get a story. the police are so desperate they now rely on the media to do their sleuthing. And almost anything goes so long as it gets a result and show how much people care…
January 25th, 2011 at 2:25 pm
The case is a parlour game on here far more than even on the Daily Mail.
You even manage to exceed the Mail’s tastelesness which is quite some feat.
January 25th, 2011 at 2:22 pm
The questions above are questions many of us are asking.Jo Yeates’ Mum seemed to understand that when she appealed to the public to become ‘armchair detectives’.
A lovely hard-working young woman died a harrowing death at the hands of someone as yet unknown – Vincent Tabak has been charged, but not convicted, and maybe he will never be convicted…. who knows?
Our hearts go out to Joanna’s family and friends. I also wonder if what happened to Joanna could also happen to one of my children or grandchildren…. or even to me.
Of course we all wonder what happened…. and why. It is all very heartbreaking and very frightening.
Christine
January 25th, 2011 at 12:11 pm
They are wallowing in it, and not allowing any comments for legal reasons, so I should imagine the punters are really pee’d off with them.