tarquin wrote:
Ray Saintonge wrote:
Articles about Jessica McClure, Bridey Murphey
and [[Mike (headless
chicken)]] are all perfectly appropriate.
So what happens when readers from other countries write up articles on
every single kidnap victim?
Do any UK writers wish to create articles on [[Milly Downling]], or
the [[Soham girls]]? Both those cases got plenty of media coverage here.
You mean they haven't been written?? Pretty regularly I see articles with
mystifying titles in recent changes, click on them out of curiousity, and
voila, sensational kidnap or murder victim in the UK.
More than a little of the ancient history that we know has been
painstakingly
reconstructed from reports of sensational but ephemeral events; those
reports
often give us bits of cultural insight that the ancient scholars didn't
understand well enough to describe in their encyclopedias and histories.
Stan