Salon.com > child abduction http://www.salon.com Sun, 26 May 2013 01:38:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 A reporter’s on-air horror show http://www.salon.com/2012/10/05/a_reporters_on_air_horror_show/ http://www.salon.com/2012/10/05/a_reporters_on_air_horror_show/#comments Fri, 05 Oct 2012 19:08:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13031641 It's a truth universally acknowledged that if it bleeds it leads. And there's no more shamelessly attention-getting, bleeding news story for reporters to pounce upon than one involving a missing child. It's one of our darkest, most horrible, sickening nightmares — and the one that keeps hacks like Nancy Grace in business. But on Friday, a British reporter crossed the threshold from merely telling the story to becoming part of it — in a horrendous display of how callous and exploitative a journalist can get.

On Monday, 5-year-old April Jones was abducted from a street near her home in Machynlleth, Wales. Friday, police arrested Mark Bridger, 46, on suspicion of her murder, while adding with restrained hope, "No stone is being left unturned" in the search for her. Dyfed-Powys Police Detective Superintendent Reg Bevan confirmed that Jones' parents had been informed of the development in a case the family earlier said had "shattered" it.

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