Cairns Stabbing: 8 kids murdered (1 Viewer)

[Kiraken]

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/que...-eight-children-murdered-20141219-12aoz7.html

Eight Cairns children have been stabbed to death and their mother is in hospital with severe injuries.

The children were aged between 18 months and 15 years old, police have confirmed. They were discovered by their 20-year-old brother on Friday morning.

wow

 

[BLIT2014]

This weeks been insane...

 

[Feynman]

Dreadful..

 

[Speed6]

Tragic..

 

[Cleavage]

Incredibly horrific

Its a shame it hasn't received the coverage of the Martin Place hostage situation

 

[SylviaB]

I for one think this is terrible and I'm not afraid to admit it.

 

[Speed6]

Incredibly horrific

Its a shame it hasn't received the coverage of the Martin Place hostage situation

No, it hasn't, you're right, it doesn't even have its own non-stop live coverage.

 

[Kiraken]

Pretty messed up week tbh :/

 

[Swaan]

 

[SylviaB]

No, it hasn't, you're right, it doesn't even have its own non-stop live coverage.

Non-stop live coverage of something which isn't happening?

 

[Cleavage]

Non-stop live coverage of something which isn't happening?

are you honestly saying that coverage of the Martin Place situation has stopped?

 

[SylviaB]

i turned on channel 7 before and the weren't talking about it

 

[astroman]

what a fked up world.

 

[Anthel]

Wow... crazy, dreadful week

 

[turntaker]

This is why religion should be illegal. Its all the religions fault

 

[SylviaB]

This is why religion should be illegal. Its all the religions fault

what the fuck

 

[Amundies]

Incredibly horrific

Its a shame it hasn't received the coverage of the Martin Place hostage situation

The media has definitely covered this quite heavily. Only reason it's not to the same extent as Martin Pl is because the Martin Pl incident was ongoing.

But I guess if you really wanted to watch for 24 hours a video feed of a house where nothing is happening, then you could ask locals and see if they're willing to set up something for you.

 

[Cleavage]

The media has definitely covered this quite heavily. Only reason it's not to the same extent as Martin Pl is because the Martin Pl incident was ongoing.

But I guess if you really wanted to watch for 24 hours a video feed of a house where nothing is happening, then you could ask locals and see if they're willing to set up something for you.

I understand the point you are trying to make, but there is more to media coverage than 24h video feed.

The daily telegraph had a 2 page spread about the shotgun (yes, the shotgun) used in the hostage situation 5 days after the event. If that isn't ongoing coverage, I'm really unsure what is.

Even today, the daily tele has on their homepage 2 articles regarding the wife of Man Haron Monis and her bail for an upcoming trial. SMH, same coverage of the Sydney Siege, and a distinct lack of coverage of the stabbings. I can honestly say that I have no idea about the perpetrator of the stabbings.

Both events were horrific, but to say the media has performed an adequate job in informing the wider public about a string of brutal infant murders is somewhat ignorant. While I can understand how a terrorist action can incite more media attention (particularly in the far more populous Sydney CBD than Cairns), the Australian media as a whole has demonstrated this week how inadequate of a role it fulfils in providing rational, balanced coverage of events and issues.