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No media coverage of murders?

  • 07-11-2008 5:27pm
    #1
    Trinity
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,662 ✭✭✭


    First time posting in here so forgive me if its the wrong place.

    A taxi driver was beaten to death in Ballymun last night whilst trying to help someone that was being beaten up. Yet I cannot find anything about it on the web.

    A few weeks ago there was another murder in Ballymun and again i found nothing on the web but i believe it possibly got a slot on tv3 news, about 10 seconds.

    Now perhaps I am not looking in the right place but I cant help thinking that if these incidents happened in D4 that it would be headline news. Is it just not newsworthy because these incidents are expected in Ballymun?

    Did anyone else hear of these incidents? Or is it just too soon, obviously names would not be realised until next of kin are informed. Its just so sad.


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  • #2
    jdivision
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,260 ✭✭✭jdivision


    Could be Garda press office request that newspapers not cover them. Very rare though. Could be that nobody in the media knew about it. But you're right if it was D4 it would be everywhere.


  • #3
    Messed Up Mind
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 130 ✭✭Messed Up Mind


    jdivision wrote: »
    Could be Garda press office request that newspapers not cover them. Very rare though. Could be that nobody in the media knew about it. But you're right if it was D4 it would be everywhere.


    My cousin was beaten to death a few years ago, and same thing, there was no media coverage whatsoever just cos it happened in Tallaght. It's terrible.


  • #4
    santosubito
    Closed Accounts Posts: 495 ✭✭santosubito


    Jeez lads, come on. OP are you sure the injured party died, rather than suffer an assault? The press office has put put out several killings in the last while - and in my experience every death gets on the news. Why would Ballymun be any different?


  • #5
    santosubito
    Closed Accounts Posts: 495 ✭✭santosubito


    jdivision wrote: »
    Could be Garda press office request that newspapers not cover them. Very rare though. Could be that nobody in the media knew about it. But you're right if it was D4 it would be everywhere.

    That would be unheard of. A kidnapping, perhaps, but a murder?


  • #6
    Frankie Lee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,285 ✭✭✭Frankie Lee


    If a completely innocent person gets murdered by gangland criminals in South Hill or Moyross would there have been a week of main news coverage in relation to it?

    I think not.


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  • #7
    lostexpectation
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,082 ✭✭✭lostexpectation


    its the weekend


  • #8
    santosubito
    Closed Accounts Posts: 495 ✭✭santosubito


    Frankie Lee wrote: »
    If a completely innocent person gets murdered by gangland criminals in South Hill or Moyross would there have been a week of main news coverage in relation to it?

    I think not.

    Yes, that's true for some of the media. But on the other hand, media outlets that do put murders on their front page are regularly accused of hyping the problem.


  • #9
    jdivision
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,260 ✭✭✭jdivision


    santosubito wrote: »
    Jeez lads, come on... The press office has put put out several killings in the last while - and in my experience every death gets on the news. Why would Ballymun be any different?
    It's not that it doesn't get covered santo, but it might just be a paragraph that nobody spots rather than a splash. I know that there was v little coverage of a former classmate -- who murdered a guy -- because it happened in a rough part of town.
    In relation to the press office thing, I was thinking more of ensuring next of kin were informed before generally releasing it but didn't phrase it v well


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