Tuesday 29 December 2009

stupid itv

For about half an hour, it seemed, ITV's news (London news I think, but I was pretty tired) talked about the (genuinely very sad) disappearance of a Londoner in a skiing town in Switzerland. The gist of the report was that his family and girlfriend believed he was kidnapped; the Swiss believed he had been lost in an avalanche.

I am absolutely not belittling the story, but the journalism was shocking. We got, honestly, five minutes of talking with sad family member about how lovely this boy was, and how excited he was by his new job. Two questions which were not even raised were:

1. Was there an avalanche in the area at about the same time?
2. What reason did his family have for thinking that he was kidnapped?

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