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Originally Posted by InOne

I guess you can only go on people really and what they buy and buy into. Even if the headline is false they still love stuff like 'Paedo found and jalied for 5 years'. It satisfies their simple minds until the next Maddie or Baby P comes along.

Yep I also like the way people hark back to the good old days, in reality it has always happened, just nowadays, with 24 hour news, instant communications and people being more aware of the support available and then receiving that support, its more common for people to open up and talk about it. Plus it gets a wider audience.

The thing to remember though newspaper editors need to fill papers, news program producers need to fill the time slots they have for the programs, consequently when no fresh news is happening they will rework the same information just phrasing it a different way and make the story bigger.