iSentia numbers demonstrate media fascination with “alcohol-fuelled violence”
Alcohol-fuelled violence dominated the media in the new year with media monitoring service iSentia reporting the term was used a staggering 25,808 times during January compared to only a few hundred mentions in January 2013.
The media’s focus on the issue follows on from the deaths of Thomas Kelly in 2012 and Daniel Christie earlier this month from “king hits” which the media rebranded as a “coward’s punch”.
Source: iSentia
You may want to correct the reference to ‘sentencing of Daniel Christie’ here, given that he was the victim of a fatal attack.
Hi Anon,
Patrick Baume’s quotes have been adjusted in brackets to more clearly reflect that Christie was the victim of an assault and not the perpetrator.
Cheers
Nic – Mumbrella
These numbers are mostly made up.
It would be nice if coward punch put an end to the term king hit, which sounds like something respectable that everyone should do. One Punch is most descriptive and says what it means. A new documentary – One Punch Homicide -was made to reduce punching incidents.