Shannon Matthews Found Alive

15:05.08 - Friday 14th March 2008   (Link to This Entry)

The News Media in the UK are currently going apeshit over the fact that 9yr-old Shannon Matthews has been found alive and well, hidden (hiding?) under a bed in West Yorkshire. Presumably they're making up for being denied closure over the whole 'Maddie' farce.

The BBC, particularly News 24, are going completely over the top. They're currently interviewing one of their own reporters live, via phone, while he's driving to the scene. Thanks to the Beeb's not-quite-on-the-spot coverage, we now know that traffic around the scene of Shannon Matthews' hideaway is heavy, and progress is slow.

Even better, the reporter from the Leeds BBC office has given out the address of the property - everything but the postcode - no less than four times in the past 15 minutes. Vigilantes will have no problem pinpointing the exact house (and presumable finding the names of the owners from the Land Registry) and going on a vigilante justice rampage. A 39yr-old man has been arrested and taken in for questioning, and I hope for his own proptection.

Honestly, common sense has gone out of the window again. At least they didn't have time to launch some tacky ''Our Shannon'' campaign.

I'm pretty sure that before long the BBC's excellent 'investigatve techniques' (asking the neighbours) will uncover more unsavoury facts about the house and its occupants. Currently we're being spoonfed the occasional morsel: she was found under a bed; she was found hidden in a diven base; she looked fine as the polica carried her out. Do us a favour and wait until you have something concrete to report.

It's also amusing that the Media haven't dared publicise too much about Shannon's mum. After everyone pointed out that they'd singularly failed to lambast the McCanns because they were middle class doctors, and that if it had been some single mum from a council estate, she'd have been crucified for her actions, so for the daughter of a council-estate mum to actually go missing - well I'm sure those poor reporters didn't know where to put themselves.

At least the BBC's North of England Reporter made it to the scene without crashing. Is there any chance we can have him done for using a mobile phone while driving?