Costa Concordia – The ghouls are out and about.
We have all been watching the news since Friday about the maritime disaster that has happened near Italy. The death toll is still unknown and there is at least 11 people confirmed dead with 24 more people still unaccounted for.
We have seen the picture of Costa Concordia on our TV screens, in the papers and online. We have heard the heartbreaking stories from the people who survived the disaster and we are now hearing from the families of those who still have no news of whether their loved ones are safe. We have seen the tears of joy as families have hugged their loved ones when they have returned to the UK, andwe have heard of how people spoke to their loved ones thinking they will never see them again.
Unfortunately, it seems with the lastest discovery of bodies that this is now a body recovering mission and the chances of finding survivors is very minimal.
Most of us send our thoughts and prayers to the families of those that have lost loved ones and to those who have been traumatised by the disaster.
Well Carnival, the holding company of Costa Cruises has called in Burson-Marsteller to deal with the press and media inquiries. Throughout some reports this disaster has been spoken about, in the same context, as the disaster in 1912 when the Titanic sunk with a over 1500 people losing their lives.
There is no way that this disaster is on par with the disaster of the Titanic when it hit a iceberg and sunk. On a personal level I have been disgusted when the media have tried to link these two disasters together, but that is the news industry as we well know from the Leveson Inquiry. As we have heard from some media journos and one owner, any headline will do and it isn’t about ethics it is about selling papers.
Only now are we getting to hear the tragic stories of survivors of the Costa Concordia and many more will be told by the survivors over the coming days. Stories of heros and tales of the horrors they witnessed and the tales of how loved ones died, whilst helping others. One such story is mentioned in an article by Sky News, they report:
And the widow of a Frenchman who died in the ship has described how her husband sacrificed himself by giving her the only life jacket they had.
Nicole Servel, 61, said that as she jumped into the icy waters off the coast of Tuscany, her husband Francis shouted to her not to worry and that he would be all right.
His body was later found in the wreckage.
Mrs Servel said: “I owe my life to my husband. He said to me ‘jump, jump’. And as I don’t know how to swim, he gave me his life jacket.”
But you see there is even more wickedness to this story than the media can ever bring. It is the online sickness because of people’s hate towards the family of a missing child.
Clarence Mitchell, the McCann family spokesman, who is MD of Burson-Marsteller is now working on the communications with regards to this disaster, and you see because Clarence Mitchell is the McCanns spokesman that makes him fair game for whatever other work he does, up to and including those who he represents and if it involves, jeering at a tragedy or those missing and lost, then so be it. You see their hatred for Clarence and the McCanns is so strong and deep-rooted that the victims of the Costa Concordia disaster can be the centre of these peopl’s jeers just as long as they can attack Clarence and the McCanns.
No person could ever make a mockery of what has happened with regards to the capsizing of Costa Concordonia , would they?
No person would ever jeer at the loss of life or make a joke of what has happened, would they?
Well it seems because Clarence Mitchell is now involved, the victims, their families, are now open for mockery as this tweet shows:
To which another tweeter said:
Not forgetting this one:
When earlier in the day this was tweeted:
And they wonder why MP’s, journos and decent people call them ghouls and block them on twitter. Would you want those kind of remarks showing up in your timeline? I know I don’t….
Perhaps they need to watch this video, and then think about how they would feel if it was their loved one, standing on that ship waiting to be rescued, or if they had someone on that ship and still had no word as to whether they were alive or dead.
Or this one where the passengers were in pitch black on a sinking ship not knowing whether they were going to be rescued.
And the Captain and his second left the ship and left those passengers to the mercy of the sea.
