To wonder why the disappearance of Nora Quoirin....

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Is not getting far more media coverage?

She was travelling on an Irish passport so it is on every Irish news bulletin since news broke. Even on the one o clock one just on.

I think her disappearance has been well covered, both in terms of amount and of content of reporting. But it can seem as if it’s being under-reported because when things like this happen closer to home reporters have access to neighbours, other guests etc, and will interview them repeatedly as they speculate about what might have happened. The reporting on this has been more focussed with less extraneous “filling”.

It is truly dreadful, and I feel for her family. It must be horrific for them. Hope and praying that she is found soon.

I considered starting this exact same thread, OP.

I don’t watch TV news, but on the online news sites this story is way down the list. I think it should have more coverage.

I have a curly haired teenage daughter with SEN myself, and this story really hits hard. I hope they find Nora safe and well very soon.

I have tried to find this story as I have a 16 year old girl with LD. There is no way she would leave anywhere on her own.

I've struggled to find it.

It makes me so so sad to think what that family is going through, no words could surely explain the heartache they are experiencing.

I’m also a journalist. In the (rural) county in which I work, we have 600 missing people reported each year. Just under quarter of them are under 18s. Every single one of them, for the past ten years, has eventually turned up safe and well. Where we have had contact with the families, they usually tell us that there’s no chance they’d have wandered off of their own volition. They always have.

The figure grows every year. If we report every one of these then readers eventually don’t even bother to read the stories. They get fatigued. Nobody wants that to happen - least of all those whose children are genuinely missing and they need help to find them.

We do have to be guided by the police because families in this situation cannot always think clearly.

I’m not saying that this is the case here, but that’s the context against which journalists have to make decisions.

At first it did seem like Nora might have wandered off. The reporting was therefore quite low-key. Now it does appear there may be something more sinister, the reporting will widen.

It’s got absolutely nothing to do with how she looks, I can assure you of that.

And also, the chances of newspapers here having reporters based in Malaysia is zero, so it takes time to respond to the story in terms of getting people in the right places.

I feel the same about Joy Morgan. Her ‘disappearance’ had absolute bare bones media coverage

She has been covered quite extensively. Perhaps too much if you consider how many kids get reported missing in the UK everyday.

Joy is an adult who was murdered by someone she knew. She was an adult who went missing initially. Lots of adults go missing every year, few are murdered. Many are never reported in the press.

Also Joy was not reported missing until over a month after she had gone missing. That always gives the impression, wrongly in this case, that this is someone who is the type just to drop off the radar.

I agree OP, though like you I have a child of a similar age with SEN so I am perhaps more emotionally invested in the situation and outcome, and more aware of prejudicial perceptions of teens who don’t fit the social media image stereotypes.
Her family must be absolutely beside themselves with worry, and the girl herself must be going through hell.

There have been some vile comments on Twitter, I've reported a few that were pointing fingers in various directions.

It's really hit home with me too as I have a DC travelling in the area. I hope she is found soon and is safe.

Tbh, they had been there for such a short time prior to going missing i find abduction quite a strange idea. In a rented holiday home fingerprints could surely be by anyone staying there. I dont know how the parents can be so sure she eouldnt go out. She was in a strange place, problably unsettled when your not at home. Maybe she did see an animal and followed it or maybe she was sleep walking. It happens.

I really do hope their is a happy outcome. Its awful.

It seems pointless starting another thread, but there are approx. 225,000 missing Britons reported per annum. Home Office says 250,000 persons

Exactly how much news coverage should each one be given? locally? Wider local area? Nationally? globally?

2018 Statistics:
~Someone is reported missing every 90 seconds in the UK
~180,000 people are reported missing every year
~There are 340,000 missing incidents every year
~Children are more likely to be reported missing than adults: 1 in 200 children goes missing each year; 1 in every 500 adults goes missing each year
~Dementia: around 1 in 10 adult missing incidents (4 in every 10 people with dementia will go missing at some point, often unintentionally)

www.missingpeople.org.uk/latest-news/1018-missing-people-publishes-latest-uk-statistics.html

They are now reporting that they have found her footprints, I do hope this means they are getting close to finding her safe and well - using the recordings is hopefully getting results.

That sounds hopeful. If they haven't been washed away, that could mean she is still roaming around. Lets hope they find her.

I've noticed this before with previous missing children. Notice a lot that boys in particular don't get as much coverage as girls. Like the boy that went missing in Aberdeenshire last year, that barely got any coverage.

They definitely aren't giving enough coverage for it and let's face it, the media will uncover a story if they think people want to hear about it. They just aren't interested. It's so bloody awful and disgusting.

I don't tend to watch TV news but there's been plenty of coverage of Nora on the BBC news site.

It's getting plenty of coverage and there's nothing we can do from Europe

using the recordings is hopefully getting results. Sorry if I've missed this in the thread, but what recordings?

Recordings of her mum’s voice speaking to her

They are playing recordings of her Mother's voice in the hope that she'll hear them and respond.

Ah, OK, thank you.

It’s been on every news bulletin in Ireland and covered at length on news programmes. My heart is breaking for her family. The voice recordings emphasise just how vulnerable she is