To ask why Alice Gross' disappearance is not front page news!?

[MrsWinnibago]

This young girl has been missing for some time now and the newspapers have not given it half enough space!

They're running shitty stories on the top lines when she should be front and centre surely?

Where has she gone? It's very upsetting. :( I know there are other children missing too....why are the newspapers putting stories about royal babies and watches on the front pages!?

Join the dots. They are virtually certain they are not looking for a missing person any more. The information needed will come from Alice's family and friends, who will be known to the police, and who also know how to search for less obvious contacts.

Sometimes, huge coverage by the media prevents an effective police response.

The investigation does not need to be overwhelmed by false leads and imagined or mistaken sightings - all of which have to be logged and responded to, including the psychics, the people who have had insightful dreams, and all the rest of it.

Oh for crying out loud, it has loads of coverage. Just because we don't have screaming tabloid headlines does not mean it's not getting large amounts of attention.

often police searches have little coverage if police think the answer lies closer to home.

Meaning what, exactly?

Hpparent, I expect she means if the police have promising leads from family and friends already known to them, which they are confident will give them more information.

Don't people (and young teenagers) go missing all the time though? I feel sad for the family but I don't think it is any more newsworthy than ISIS or Scotland or MH17 investigation or the numerous other horrible things going on in the world.

I feel like Gaza has totally dropped out of the news too.

I actually think, given the number of teenagers who go missing all the time, that there has been quite a lot of coverage? Maybe I have been alert to it because we know the school which this girl attends so every time I have seen a news item about her, it has stuck with me.

I also knew one of her parents quite well, years ago, so have been following events quite closely. Like many people I have children a similar age and I cannot imagine how I would survive if they went missing. Her family are amazingly strong. I feel absolutely sick for them. I think it does help them if they feel people are taking the publicity and Find Alice campaign seriously.

The Met are still appealing on their website for the cyclists who probably passed Alice on the towpath to come forward. Despite extensive searches the police have not found a body, so that gives at least a shred of hope that she is alive.

Right now most of the media think that the Scottish referendum is the most important and interesting issue for their readers.

Her disappearance got loads of coverage at the time but 'still no developments' or 'still no developments that we can talk about' is not news.

Why is her case more newsworthy than the other 139,999 children who go missing each year? I don't understand why the whole phenomenon isn't given more column inches, to be honest.

Poor girl. Hope she turns up safe and sound.

Two things that strike me - I follow two Police forces on Twitter and both must post items at least weekly about missing children - never make local news let alone national news.

Also if there is too much media coverage about the details about the case it makes it harder to try if it gets to court as the jury need to be impartial.

Maybe the police don't need the media coverage at this point in the investigation as sad as the situation is reporting nothing is not 'newsworthy' as others have said there are lots of things that don't make the news ever.

She's had a ton of coverage considering how many her age go missing and get next to no coverage

The Police still want us to put up posters, this is still a missing persons case. I agree that so many children go missing & that Alice has received lots of coverage compared to others, mainly due to the hard work of her family and friends. I will be wearing a yellow ribbon tomorrow if she is still missing. I may also break YouTube if I keep listening to her beautiful song as much as I am at the moment
#findalice

She has had much, much more coverage than the vast majority of children that go missing.

Sadly, children that go missing when they are feeling down, or have MH issues, are usually suspected to have gone missing of their own accord. The press cannot cover all of these cases or else there would be nothing else in the papers.

They will give more coverage to cases where the police strongly believe the child has no reason to run away, so abduction is the most likely explanation. Obviously there is a more pressing need to cover the story because there is a potential child abductor out there who could target other children.

I don't know if any of this is the case for Alice (although her issues have been publicised) I'm just speaking generally.

I feel very sorry for her poor family. They have done a great job of keeping her face on social media.

The vast majority of missing children turn up within a day. Missing children includes teens who have gone to their mates house, children who have been retained by a non resident parent etc...they're on the statistics as missing but most come back one way or another.

Yes but they are completely obsessed with poor gazza :(

It's strange isn't it how some missing people, like Claudia Lawrence, are plastered all over the media and other barely get a mention.

What a lovely post Bulbsaur, Alice's family and friends use Mumsnet. If you know for sure that's the police thinking I am assuming that you are privy to information the public are not. Are you allowed to broadcast it on a forum like this? Our home town is a sea of yellow bows today to show our support and hope for Alice and her family. More information has today been released by police, please see the Find Alice Gross Facebook page for the video.

I don't buy an actual newspaper, but this young woman's disappearance has been on the BBC News home page and on the home page of a certain awful, but readable tabloid for days now.