The link between appalling coverage of Nicola Bulley's disappearance and cheers for a Telegraph hack heading to GB News? An industrial absence of embarrassment.
You’d hope the way this tragedy has been presented to the public would be used to teach how not to do so in future.
It won’t, of course.
The release of the details of her personal life seemed to be to stop stories being sold to the tabloids to cause further misery to her family - so when the police did so, they were attacked by the same papers seeking to use that information for an exclusive.
An aside, but I am impressed by the word used by Joshi Herrmann of the excellent The Mill - “beclowning”.
Yes, I'll be using it in my next Twitter spat for sure.
You’d hope the way this tragedy has been presented to the public would be used to teach how not to do so in future.
It won’t, of course.
The release of the details of her personal life seemed to be to stop stories being sold to the tabloids to cause further misery to her family - so when the police did so, they were attacked by the same papers seeking to use that information for an exclusive.