Doorstepping people donating to Amaral's fund

[Eleanor]

Would you agree that should be extended to the dossier compilers and donors to Madeleine's fund, and see their names and addresses on the internet  ?

At the moment it is one way traffic.

I am only concerned with what I would do.

[stephen25000]

I am only concerned with what I would do.

???

[Brietta]

When a journalist doorsteps its deliberate confrontation without the person's permission.

I think it might have been preferable to wait for the veracity of the allegation to be established before discussing it. 

However, we are where we are.

We have discussed the probability in an earlier thread on trolling and trolls, that MSM were being given access to peoples' identities when they made comment in newspapers.

Anyone who failed to see what they were doing when comments began to be again allowed on McCann articles is very short sighted indeed.

The newspapers cannot be excoriated for the legitimate use of contact details voluntarily sent to them. 

Nor can they be condemned for giving a platform (if they are) to people anxious to publicise their opinion and point of view.

If they doorstepped me about Madeleine's case, I would invite them in and over a cuppa be quite happy to explain my opinion on the case.

[carlymichelle]

well we all know  what happned  when a  certian journalist  doorknocked    someone   relating to the mcann case they killed themselves.......  and some supporters thought that person deserved what she  got

[Lace]

The way it seems to me is,  if this is true,  then journalists who have seen all the comments on the Daily Mail and what a fuss it all made,  have decided to call upon some of these people who donated to the fund of Amaral,  as it would make a good story to have comments from these people so as to get more people reading The Mail and making comments on their article.   Journalists make a living out of getting a story,  they need to get stories or they don't make money.   Anyone can say 'no comment'  though,  so what is the fuss about?

[jassi]

How have the media obtained these name?
Have individuals phoned them up and volunteered their details or is this another of these 'dossiers'?

Pretty pathetic activity whatever, as the defence fund has done its job in allowing Amaral to win his appeal.

[Mr Gray]

Would you agree that should be extended to the dossier compilers and donors to Madeleine's fund, and see their names and addresses on the internet  ?

At the moment it is one way traffic.

why should donors names be published on the net...what a bizarre statement...if people have used their  real name that's their problem

[Carana]

well we all know  what happned  when a  certian journalist  doorknocked    someone   relating to the mcann case they killed themselves.......  and some supporters thought that person deserved what she  got

There was some total nutter apparently in the US who only ever made about 4 posts on the Madeleine case, including one about Brenda Whoever, but who ranted regularly about everything under the sun (not all there mentally, hopefully taken into psychiatric care. Account gone).

[faithlilly]

I think you need something a bit more solid than 'if a member's report is correct' to initiate substantive debate, or you are inviting opinions about speculation.

Do we have any sort of solid source for such doorstepping?

And please tidy up the title of the topic - thanks.

I have a friend who messaged me last night to say she was doorstepped yesterday.

[Mr Gray]

How have the media obtained these name?
Have individuals phoned them up and volunteered their details or is this another of these 'dossiers'?

Pretty pathetic activity whatever, as the defence fund has done its job in allowing Amaral to win his appeal.

donors signed up with their own names...facebook page

[faithlilly]

It is interesting how supporters rarely use their own names. Are they afraid to stand up and be counted ?

[Benice]

well we all know  what happned  when a  certian journalist  doorknocked    someone   relating to the mcann case they killed themselves.......  and some supporters thought that person deserved what she  got

And we all know that it was her fellow sceptics who accused her of being an actor and/or a plant - because in their opinion she didn't put her case across when she was given the opportunity to do so -  and they thought she should have.

( If it's true) then it would seem that some of those sceptics may be given the same opportunity which they slagged her off for not taking when it was offered.       Surely they should be delighted with that.

[Eleanor]

How have the media obtained these name?
Have individuals phoned them up and volunteered their details or is this another of these 'dossiers'?

Pretty pathetic activity whatever, as the defence fund has done its job in allowing Amaral to win his appeal.

FaceBook it seems.

[jassi]

FaceBook it seems.

Ah well, more fool them for having an account.

[Mr Gray]

I have a friend who messaged me last night to say she was doorstepped yesterday.

can you supply any proof