The Sun now owns Tia Sharp
TIA Sharp: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at the missing 12-year-old girl in the news:
The Sun has issued a £25,000 reward for information that “will lead police to find missing Tia Sharp”. Does the reward get a result? The Sun seems to think so. It selflessly has offered rewards in the cases of missing Joanna Yeates and missing Shannon Matthews. The Sun’s now dead sister paper the News of the World offered a hug reward for anyone who could find Madeleine McCann. All these appeals came with a free poster you can stick on your shops, window or car. Selflessly, all posters carry the newspaper’s logo, co-branding the missing and murdered with a tabloid banner. So what that the Sun’s owners and former editors are in the mire for allegedly hacking the phone of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler and perverting the course of justice. The Sun will show one and all how much it cares by offering up some cash.
Previously, the caring sun stuck a headstone in the ground to ‘Baby P” and wrapped Claire Squires, the marathon runner who died, in a circle of love. It’s not squalid, cynical, cheap and opportunistic. It’s caring. There is little evidence the rewards work – other than to sell newspapers, that is, and turn the missing into a pet campaign that differentiates the Sun from other news organs. The Mail has wheelie bins. The Guardian has hacking. The Express has weather. The Sun has missing white children and women.
Posted: 8th, August 2012 | In: Key Posts, News Comments (13) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
August 8th, 2012 at 1:22 pm
The Sun’s eagerness to offer rewards is pure cynicism. They know damn well they’ll never have to pay it out.
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And if anything, it only hinders police investigations (police generally don’t like high profile rewards as they end up having to act on very tenuous and spurious information most of the time).
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I don’t know if any police investigation has ever ended up with a reward payment from a tabloid newspaper but I’d be very suprised if it did. I notice Rhys Jones’s was 100k. Given his murderer was largely convicted on evidence given by fellow gang members who had been given immunity (including an accessory to the crime), I wonder if The Sun parted with that cash.
August 8th, 2012 at 1:04 pm
…the dogs have been brought in…wonder if anyone will believe their story?
August 8th, 2012 at 12:49 pm
….or the police?
August 8th, 2012 at 12:49 pm
…wonder when or if Max Clifford comes into this story?
August 8th, 2012 at 12:46 pm
Emma…since you are the legal eagle…what does copyright & property laws have to say on this subject…on second thoughts …forget it…
August 8th, 2012 at 12:43 pm
…wh osaid invading peoples privacy & prejudicing opinion is legally wrong Emma? …only the privileged few can get super injunctions to stop the press….the rest of us are fair game…always have been. And for anyone who has ever had their privacy invaded by the press…at least make sure they pay you for the story…it is not public property or theres. to sell or should’nt be without permission.
August 8th, 2012 at 12:10 pm
Theoretically, the newspapers who are bringing up past misdemeanours are doing nothing wrong at this stage. No-one has been arrested for anything and there is no evidence of a crime. It’s not particularly nice though.
August 8th, 2012 at 12:09 pm
…& invading peoples privacy has always been part of the plot to getting a story at all costs…you would think some of these papers are doing the police work…although come to think of it…the Leveson inquiry proved they are …the secret police.
August 8th, 2012 at 11:32 am
I see you have the line from the Telegraph in the latest story.
August 8th, 2012 at 11:31 am
Have you read this one? What was that Leveson thing again?
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http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/08/08/tia-sharp-stuart-hazell-prison-machete-missing_n_1754696.html
August 8th, 2012 at 11:16 am
It’s here.
http://www.anorak.co.uk/329312/news/tia-sharp-the-bus-the-tram-the-cynical-sun-and-stuart-hazells-regret.html/
August 8th, 2012 at 11:14 am
…the “reporters” are only trying to help this poor family, Karen…..the discrepencies as you call them are all part of the plot….to sell papers.
August 8th, 2012 at 10:29 am
I was reading a few armchair detective comments yesterday and some pointed out discrepancies in the stories. The trouble is, they attributed these to the family but we only know what we read in the media so the discrepancies have come from the reporters.