Stay Away

[SuffolkPunch]

Don't come here to Ipswich, news gets worse by the day. What is wrong with the world?

[Dingdell]

Don't come here to Ipswich, news gets worse by the day. What is wrong with the world?

Been happening for a long time - just that now we have quicker ways of communicating it.
It is horrible though.

[TightEnd]

what do you want to start with?


a serial killer of prostitutes on the loose?

a young lady from a well adjusted background becoming addicted to drugs and going on the game?

or men using prostitutes full stop?

[charmaine]

After looking at the Cambridge Evening News i can say Cambridge looks pretty tame .
Though i was disgusted to say a 21 year old man was  sexually assaulted by 3 men !!! i agree with whats the world coming too 

[barhell]

I agree that there are some weird people out there but the sensationalist media doesn't help, it's a bit like the rash crop of dog attacks that appeared recently in the media, it also happened maybe ten years ago, on the front pages constantly, but in the middle of these two outbreaks are we to assume no dogs attacked children?
The same goes with all crimes, i was listening to a radio program and statistics show that children are no more likely to be attacked/kidnapped etc. now than they were 40 years ago. So why am i afraid to let my two daughters out of my sight? All down to the media? or are we just more informed at my eldest daughters age i used to have run of the village where i live, now in the same village i refuse to let her out of my road. Unless she is going to a specific friends and she has her phone with her.
Rant over been a long day

[RED-DOG]

I agree that there are some weird people out there but the sensationalist media doesn't help, it's a bit like the rash crop of dog attacks that appeared recently in the media, it also happened maybe ten years ago, on the front pages constantly, but in the middle of these two outbreaks are we to assume no dogs attacked children?
The same goes with all crimes, i was listening to a radio program and statistics show that children are no more likely to be attacked/kidnapped etc. now than they were 40 years ago. So why am i afraid to let my two daughters out of my sight? All down to the media? or are we just more informed at my eldest daughters age i used to have run of the village where i live, now in the same village i refuse to let her out of my road. Unless she is going to a specific friends and she has her phone with her.
Rant over been a long day

What a great post!!!!

[Royal Flush]

I agree that there are some weird people out there but the sensationalist media doesn't help, it's a bit like the rash crop of dog attacks that appeared recently in the media, it also happened maybe ten years ago, on the front pages constantly, but in the middle of these two outbreaks are we to assume no dogs attacked children?
The same goes with all crimes, i was listening to a radio program and statistics show that children are no more likely to be attacked/kidnapped etc. now than they were 40 years ago. So why am i afraid to let my two daughters out of my sight? All down to the media? or are we just more informed at my eldest daughters age i used to have run of the village where i live, now in the same village i refuse to let her out of my road. Unless she is going to a specific friends and she has her phone with her.
Rant over been a long day

The attacks may be the same frequency but it is also a lot harder to make these attacks due to the caution mothers take these days.

I am not saying i don't agree with you, i studied at A-Level in media studies (what a joke, lol) and a major part of that was how the media deals with crime. Just don't fall into the camp of relying on 1 stat!

[SuffolkPunch]

Obviously I'm well qualified to comment on this from both angles. Yes, the media will seize on this, especially as it is an otherwise news-free period at the moment. However, what makes this story different - and one of the reasons it is getting wall-to-wall coverage on Sky at the moment - is because this is Suffolk. Had these terrible murders been committed in London, Manchester etc, I don't believe they would be getting the media so excited. But sleepy Suffolk is different. That, I'm afraid, is the hypocricy of the media.
Pretty ironic that I gave up national newspaper journalism in the summer to live the poker dream, and now have one of the year's biggest stories on my own doorstep! Now police say they are concerned about a FIFTH prostitute missing. Good grief.

[barhell]

I agree that there are some weird people out there but the sensationalist media doesn't help, it's a bit like the rash crop of dog attacks that appeared recently in the media, it also happened maybe ten years ago, on the front pages constantly, but in the middle of these two outbreaks are we to assume no dogs attacked children?
The same goes with all crimes, i was listening to a radio program and statistics show that children are no more likely to be attacked/kidnapped etc. now than they were 40 years ago. So why am i afraid to let my two daughters out of my sight? All down to the media? or are we just more informed at my eldest daughters age i used to have run of the village where i live, now in the same village i refuse to let her out of my road. Unless she is going to a specific friends and she has her phone with her.
Rant over been a long day

The attacks may be the same frequency but it is also a lot harder to make these attacks due to the caution mothers take these days.

I am not saying i don't agree with you, i studied at A-Level in media studies (what a joke, lol) and a major part of that was how the media deals with crime. Just don't fall into the camp of relying on 1 stat!

And fathers caution too (it's only weekends i'm a lady). <<Joke if my wife is reading

[vinni]

why not bring back the death penalty ,theres DNA you cant get away from proof like this .
these people and the ones that hurt old women /men /kids deserve no better treatment .
id gladly do this if theycant find anyone to do it .

[SuffolkPunch]

why not bring back the death penalty ,theres DNA you cant get away from proof like this .
these people and the ones that hurt old women /men /kids deserve no better treatment .
id gladly do this if theycant find anyone to do it .

You may find you will have to join a rather long queue

[Royal Flush]

I agree that there are some weird people out there but the sensationalist media doesn't help, it's a bit like the rash crop of dog attacks that appeared recently in the media, it also happened maybe ten years ago, on the front pages constantly, but in the middle of these two outbreaks are we to assume no dogs attacked children?
The same goes with all crimes, i was listening to a radio program and statistics show that children are no more likely to be attacked/kidnapped etc. now than they were 40 years ago. So why am i afraid to let my two daughters out of my sight? All down to the media? or are we just more informed at my eldest daughters age i used to have run of the village where i live, now in the same village i refuse to let her out of my road. Unless she is going to a specific friends and she has her phone with her.
Rant over been a long day

The attacks may be the same frequency but it is also a lot harder to make these attacks due to the caution mothers take these days.

I am not saying i don't agree with you, i studied at A-Level in media studies (what a joke, lol) and a major part of that was how the media deals with crime. Just don't fall into the camp of relying on 1 stat!

And fathers caution too (it's only weekends i'm a lady). <<Joke if my wife is reading

Yes i meant a parents caution, i am in a very lazy mood today, lol.

You get the point though.

[AndrewT]

Obviously I'm well qualified to comment on this from both angles. Yes, the media will seize on this, especially as it is an otherwise news-free period at the moment. However, what makes this story different - and one of the reasons it is getting wall-to-wall coverage on Sky at the moment - is because this is Suffolk. Had these terrible murders been committed in London, Manchester etc, I don't believe they would be getting the media so excited. But sleepy Suffolk is different. That, I'm afraid, is the hypocricy of the media.
Pretty ironic that I gave up national newspaper journalism in the summer to live the poker dream, and now have one of the year's biggest stories on my own doorstep! Now police say they are concerned about a FIFTH prostitute missing. Good grief.

Also, because it concerns prostitutes it allows the tabloids to blow the dust from their RIPPER ON THE LOOSE headlines which they put into storage once Peter Sutcliffe got locked up.

[SuffolkPunch]

Obviously I'm well qualified to comment on this from both angles. Yes, the media will seize on this, especially as it is an otherwise news-free period at the moment. However, what makes this story different - and one of the reasons it is getting wall-to-wall coverage on Sky at the moment - is because this is Suffolk. Had these terrible murders been committed in London, Manchester etc, I don't believe they would be getting the media so excited. But sleepy Suffolk is different. That, I'm afraid, is the hypocricy of the media.
Pretty ironic that I gave up national newspaper journalism in the summer to live the poker dream, and now have one of the year's biggest stories on my own doorstep! Now police say they are concerned about a FIFTH prostitute missing. Good grief.

Also, because it concerns prostitutes it allows the tabloids to blow the dust from their RIPPER ON THE LOOSE headlines which they put into storage once Peter Sutcliffe got locked up.

very true

[barhell]

I must say just reread my original post and failed to say that it is a terrible situation all the same media hype or not.