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Simon Bucks Name: Simon Bucks
Occupation: Sky News Associate Editor
Country: UK
Total Questions: 7
Total Answers: 6
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  1. TimHood asked Simon Bucks: "In the last week we have seen both Heather Mills and Kate McCann break down in TV interviews. Do you think most news editors regard this as 'good television' or do you think they feel uneasy about it?"
  2. Simon Bucks answers: "Both these interviews were carried out on other channels, so perhaps you should ask the editors of those channels. "
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  4. 1 comment   |  Topic: Media   |   Email to friends   |   Dec 26 2007 8:42:12 AM
  6. sunnyday asked Simon Bucks: "What benefits, other than satisfying peoples' morbid curiosity, do you think the media coverage of the McCann case has brought?"
  7. Simon Bucks answers: "The McCann case touches anyone with children who has had to make daily decisions about looking after them. I completely reject the idea that our coverage is only designed to satisfy morbid curiosity...." Show more»" The McCann case touches anyone with children who has had to make daily decisions about looking after them. I completely reject the idea that our coverage is only designed to satisfy morbid curiosity. But all news coverage depends on the consumers being interested, or indeed curious, in the subject. The implication of your question is that we should prescribe what people should be interested in, a philosophy more suited to a dictatorship than a democracy. "Show less«
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  9. 1 comment   |  Topic: Media   |   Email to friends   |   Dec 26 2007 8:40:42 AM
  11. keithwhu asked Simon Bucks: "Derry Nairn asks: Do you think the fact that the McCann's have employed professional media spokepeople has helped the media coverage of the abduction, or indeed, the attempts to solve the case?"
  12. Simon Bucks answers: "It's very hard to tell. They have certainly helped keep the story in the public eye across many countries. If the child was kidnapped then more people would have know what she looked like and might have..." Show more»" It's very hard to tell. They have certainly helped keep the story in the public eye across many countries. If the child was kidnapped then more people would have know what she looked like and might have alerted the police if they recognised her. On the other hand some people argue that the glare of publicity would have scared the kidnappers into killing the child for fear of being caught. In their position, I would have probably done what they did it. But I am speaking personally here. "Show less«
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  14. 0 comment   |  Topic: Media   |   Email to friends   |   Dec 26 2007 8:54:11 AM
  16. keithwhu asked Simon Bucks: "Derry Nairn asks: What for you has been the worst coverage of the McCann case? Has there ever been a time when you have worried that the media or a certain publication has gone to far?"
  17. Simon Bucks answers: "The Portugese media is largely unregulated and has sometimes printed stories which are untrue and unsourced. Elements of the UK media may have followed suit. But most responsible and serious sections..." Show more»" The Portugese media is largely unregulated and has sometimes printed stories which are untrue and unsourced. Elements of the UK media may have followed suit. But most responsible and serious sections of the UK media have covered the story well. "Show less«
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  19. 0 comment   |  Topic: Media   |   Email to friends   |   Dec 26 2007 8:55:24 AM
  21. keithwhu asked Simon Bucks: "Derry Nairn asks: Adam Boulton said at the Editors conference in Manchester recently that many readers comments are 'not worth the paper they aren't printed on'. Do most comments about the McCann's ..." Show more »"Derry Nairn asks: Adam Boulton said at the Editors conference in Manchester recently that many readers comments are 'not worth the paper they aren't printed on'. Do most comments about the McCann's bear that out? " Show less »
  22. Simon Bucks answers: "I don't agree with Adam about this. We value comments by our users, many are very intelligent and thoughtful. Of course, there will be some which are daft or abusive, but that is the nature of the internet...." Show more»" I don't agree with Adam about this. We value comments by our users, many are very intelligent and thoughtful. Of course, there will be some which are daft or abusive, but that is the nature of the internet. "Show less«
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  24. 0 comment   |  Topic: Media   |   Email to friends   |   Dec 26 2007 8:56:09 AM
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  1. the6thestate is asking Simon Bucks: "If you were to be appointed media adviser to a parent whose child had been abducted, what advice would you give them, in the light of the McCann's experiences?"
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  3. 0 comment   |  Topic: Media   |   Email to friends   |   Oct 28 2007 6:48:01 PM
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