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Thank you for the replies.

So - not only are there similarities in that both incidents involved taxis...but also, both drivers escaped with their lives.

Thanks for the pointer to 'Notting Hill' - I have not seen it, but will look that way for reference/s.

My interest in the story is that of one determined to determine if one should be interested... If you know what I mean.

It's a precarious balance, 'random' incidents that draw fear from the public do happen and they do enhance
media ratings, but often,  ground-floor facts are sometimes not available and often not news-worthy. Hence
the need for certain visuals that are supposed to draw the eye and lure interest.

Wording is very important and as you've seen with the decaying flu-virus narrative, the importance that is
initially designated to a story can be damaged by the rush to garner those all-vital ratings.

For example, if a large rock is reported to be heading towards Earth, one might expect a global coverage that
would last until impact. Yet, in a week or so, the headline is about a 'celebrity' and a steamy dalliance appears
and the public are expected to move along without noticing the change of the seriousness offered earlier.

There are other factors that are connected to the grist of the story above. First, it is a local story, but due to
the UK mainstream media being based in London and a capital being deemed important, the story takes
centre-stage.

Second, an in-depth reporting of an act of crime may effect a court trial and this is part of the ethical system
Journalists are supposed to adhere to. Sadly, later extensive investigations into these types of crime tend to
protect certain belief-structures within the MSM and may even reveal errors in their own original reporting.

Third, the man who was shot seems to have an 'Asian' appearance and since the MSM believe in a certain
dogma where they want to scare -but not scare the public that all brown-skinned people are to be wary of,
the reports have to hit-and-run, one-offs -due to the 'fairness reasons' I mentioned above, but also because
the shock-value has been used-up.

A chap was killed in Bolton (UK) on Saturday, stabbed and killed. Yet it took until Monday to report it on the
BBC website simply because Bolton isn't deemed equal to London. Another factor to take into consideration
is that Monday is accepted as a 'new' working-week and ergo, new articles have to be generated to acquire
ratings.

The Sun report from above regarding the Kensington incident is still on their website, but there has been no
update. However, considering the 'exciting' images it holds, I can see why they've left it up. The BBC dropped
it like a hot potato due to the dead man's ethnic background.

Some of the reasons I've put forward may seem silly to the consumers of the stuff they churn out, but they
are very real!