AverageWhiteBloke
Member
I know this is probably a touchy subject at the moment and I do appreciate the messages of condolence but I think it's time for the media circus to get out of town.
I am from Whitehaven and have lived there all 40 years of my life, I knew both the perpetrator and 3 of the victims of the shootings but I think now is the time to not exactly move on but for the media to stop looking for a story that isn't there.
It is has it seems a regular guy whose had too much going head has went, this must happen to numerous towns several times a day the difference being on this occasion they had access to firearms.
It annoys me when journalists take one tiny snippet of information and turn it into a Hollywood block buster, the circus camped out in the town centre is also bordering on distasteful. My fear is if the media stay here much longer that especially over the weekend when people are drinking in the town centre they are going to be still interviewing anybody who has anything to say looking for some angle to make the story a bit more interesting that eventually idiots are going to be on TV live making a mockery of the whole situation. Only last night some tool was bobbing about in the back ground with an England flag on his head live on BBC news and unscrupulous business's are now starting to park sign written vans where interviews are taking place.
IMO time for them to go and let us pick up the pieces which we already do, after floods the school trip bus crash and now this I feel that the whole town is now being abused to sell papers and get a good sound byte. Most people round here knew who why & what hours before the official line due to police not releasing information to the press, tell them what they want to know and let them go.
Last night 100 detectives were assigned to the case, as big a case as this is it's probably more clear cut than any they have had to solve, some of them detectives would be better served on current crime and not one that is over with so just seems like a pointless token gesture.
I am from Whitehaven and have lived there all 40 years of my life, I knew both the perpetrator and 3 of the victims of the shootings but I think now is the time to not exactly move on but for the media to stop looking for a story that isn't there.
It is has it seems a regular guy whose had too much going head has went, this must happen to numerous towns several times a day the difference being on this occasion they had access to firearms.
It annoys me when journalists take one tiny snippet of information and turn it into a Hollywood block buster, the circus camped out in the town centre is also bordering on distasteful. My fear is if the media stay here much longer that especially over the weekend when people are drinking in the town centre they are going to be still interviewing anybody who has anything to say looking for some angle to make the story a bit more interesting that eventually idiots are going to be on TV live making a mockery of the whole situation. Only last night some tool was bobbing about in the back ground with an England flag on his head live on BBC news and unscrupulous business's are now starting to park sign written vans where interviews are taking place.
IMO time for them to go and let us pick up the pieces which we already do, after floods the school trip bus crash and now this I feel that the whole town is now being abused to sell papers and get a good sound byte. Most people round here knew who why & what hours before the official line due to police not releasing information to the press, tell them what they want to know and let them go.
Last night 100 detectives were assigned to the case, as big a case as this is it's probably more clear cut than any they have had to solve, some of them detectives would be better served on current crime and not one that is over with so just seems like a pointless token gesture.
