To see the press and society as London biased?

[Mapletreelane]

My heart and soul and thoughts are with Sarah Everard and her family.

Last year a student in Hull, Libby Squire, was randomly abducted and murdered by a monster.

And the press coverage and public outcry was just
..non existent

I'm trying to rack my brains the differences in the cases to explain the differences in the public and press responses.

Is it just a London thing?

These were my thoughts before a serving policeman was arrested. I just cannot understand why one made huge news and the other drifted by.

These are both so sad and tragic, but I just don't understand the differences in the media portrayal of them both.

Rest in peace to them both xxx

There's not much London bias when it comes to reporting or raising awareness of the lesser amount of support available to London victims of violence. Put simply, it isn't reported.

Conventionally attractive, professional, media-related career, graduate. As has been said, Sarah shared a lifestyle with the people reporting her disappearance.

I’m not sure I would entirely attribute the ubiquity of the coverage to “London.” She could have lived a similar life in Bristol or Manchester or Oxford or Edinburgh. It’s more about race and class than just location.

Some turn into a media frenzy and some don't. I can see no reason for one or the other

It reminds me of Madeleine McCann. At the time, if you had just landed on the planet, you would have to assume no other child had ever died in similar circumstances. No other child's death has ever had the same response. Tony Blair, Gordon Brown etc all got involved, British police, Secret Service, MI5 and many, many more. How much have the police spent searching for Madeleine compared with other missing children and why?

You don't have to move far from London to stop getting mainstream media attention. Go outside the M25 to Hatfield or High Wycombe... Chelmsford, Luton, Reading or Guildford all tend to get the "where?" treatment too.

@AskingQuestionsAllTheTime

You don't have to move far from London to stop getting mainstream media attention. Go outside the M25 to Hatfield or High Wycombe... Chelmsford, Luton, Reading or Guildford all tend to get the "where?" treatment too.

Yes that’s basically my experience.

@AskingQuestionsAllTheTime

You don't have to move far from London to stop getting mainstream media attention. Go outside the M25 to Hatfield or High Wycombe... Chelmsford, Luton, Reading or Guildford all tend to get the "where?" treatment too.

I'm quite sure victims of male (and any) violence would choose no media attention but prompt access to meaningful help and support. London might sometimes have the former, elsewhere has the latter.

I live in but am not from London and do somewhat agree.
But the thing is it's where more than 10% of people in the UK live, it's also where more things happen

My hometown headlines are more "drug dealers fight outside chippy" sort of news, nothing ever really happens there