Blogs: reviews on cases regarding children who kill
Blog # 1
My job as a journalist is to review the media weekly and to pick out stories that intrigue, shock and entice readers to find out about more. My main interest has always been to write and research, so that i can effectively find information and share facts and opinions. Throughout the past few months i have taken a particular interest in children within the media and how they are represented. 'Murder' and 'missing' stories dominate front pages of national magazines and web pages. An example of children in the media would be the disappearance of three year old Madeline McCan. Her disappearance caused concern throughout the world, and millions of pounds were raised to find the young girl. As i read and researched children in the media, i discovered that the most talked about subject regarding children in the media would be the chilling subject of 'child killers.' There are many websites dedicated to this subject that many people find unnerving and frightening that children of such young ages can perform such severe acts of violence. After being assigned the task of writing six blogs i decided to review and comment of six cases of child killers, i will not however try to provide a physiological answer to the question that many ask; 'are these children victims of severe abuse and suffering?' 'are children born evil or do they develop it through what they learn.' My main concern is that children have access to many disturbing images via television and the Internet. Is this perhaps the reason that children accept the idea of killing in some cases so easily?
1 comment:
James Bulger - there was no other children with him, and you forgot about the security camera which showed James being led away by Jon Veneables (one of his killers, so you don't know everything about this case!)
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