Relative Values - Weighing a Cat against a Child

This week’s non-news – Over paid footballer whilst playing with his children thinks it’s funny to post a video clip online of him kicking a cat across the room and slapping it whilst a child holds it.

Said clip goes viral on twitter etc...

Reactions in first 24 hours?

• Social media goes into meltdown

• All major news services give it the same airtime as the Ukrainian border crisis on their main bulletins

• Talk Radio start on online campaign to have him prosecuted and banned from owning animals

• An online petition to have him prosecuted and banned from animal ownership passes 160,00 signatures in a day as the social media gang pile on (today, 10th Feb, its at 291,000 signatures and growing)

• His club fine him £250,000

• His sponsors drop him (faster than he dropped the cat)

• Police take interest via RSPCA who remove the cat from danger of future harm and start to look to a prosecution against the callus owner

This week’s actual news

Operation Linden Learning & Recommendations on organised child sex abuse

Reaction?

• Who realised?

• Who knows what was in it? (or that it existed)

• Who started an online campaign for justice?

• Who signed a petition?

London records worst ever death toll from teenage homicide with 30 deaths and 1st of 2022 with the stabbing of an 18 year old in Enfield

Reaction?

• Inside page coverage in some news papers

• 20 second slot on some TV news programmes

• London mayor says ““I am truly devastated by the deaths …….. the Met Police who are doing everything possible to bring those responsible for these killings to justice…”

• No Petition starts

• No organised Social Media pile on or public outrage appears online

Does this tell you all you need to know about how people weigh the relative value of a cat and child?