Social Media Communications
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Added on 2019-10-18
Social Media Communications
Added on 2019-10-18
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Learning problem #1. The tweeting PR personYou areemployed in a State Government environment department as a media communications officer. You know your colleague – employed at the same level as you - is highly opinionated against the current government’s policies. Afriend brings to your attention the fact that your colleague has been tweeting highly critical messages opposing the government’s shark netting policies usingthe anonymous Twitter handle @ecowarrior. You feel conflicted but decide to report the behaviour to your boss. A few days later you learn that the department is going to dismiss her over her anti-governmenttweets.Learning problem #2.MORETON ISLAND SEX KILLER ARRESTEDBy LOIS LANEPolice have arrested the man who murdered and raped an elderly woman on Moreton Island in Queensland last month.Edith Johnston was found dead in her Moreton Island home four weeks ago.Labourer David Smith is expected to be charged later today.
Detectives visited his Cleveland home on Monday morning and later escorted him into Roma Street headquarters.During the investigation, Mr Smith had described himself as a friend of Mrs Johnston who would do odd jobs for her on his weekend fishing visits to the island.Mr Smith was also the man who raised the original alarm to police, concerned the 93-year-old woman was not answering her door when he had knocked.Police found Mrs Johnston naked in her bathroom when they attended to check on her.She had lived alone in the single story fibro bungalow since her husband Fred died in 2010.Neighbour and friend Liz Wallis said she was in disbelief that a potential serious crime had been committed on a usually peaceful island.She said: "This is not Moreton Island, believe me - things like this don’t happen here. We just can't understand it. We’re devastated."Police questioned Smith for more than three hours last Wednesday after forensic experts determined the woman had been the victim of a sex murder.A police media spokesperson said Smith had made several admissions to them during that interview and said he had been drinking heavily for several hours prior to the attack.
His home computer had been seized and incriminating pornographic images had been found on it.Police said his eight-year-old daughter Phoebe was being cared for by her grandparents.Smith was a prime suspect in a similar attack on a Redland Bay woman, Doris Dupain, 78, in 2008. According to investigating detectives, Mrs Dupain survivedthe assault and was willing to testify, however Smith’s ex-girlfriend provided him with an alibi and crucial DNA evidence was misplaced in the police laboratory.The police spokesperson said there would be no such error this time round.“We have collected incriminating DNA from both the victim and the suspect and this kind of data doesn’t lie. We expect to formally charge Smith within hours,” she said.Mrs Johnston was a retired school music teacher who often played piano at community gatherings and on Sundays at the Moreton Uniting Church services.“She was such an endearing person and very talented,” Ms Wallis said. “She didn’t deserve to die in such a horrible traumatic way.“I have no doubt this Smith guy did it. He would hang around her place like a bad smell and always had a nasty look about him. My guess is that he preyed on lonely widows like this.”
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