Madeleine McCann: Gerry On The Telly And It Could Be U
“MADELEINE: It’s not too late says mum.”
The front page of the Express contains a “Dramatic Plea”.
But it’s not dramatic so much as it is desperate. “It’s not too late, please give her back,” says Kate McCann.
As ever the Express tells readers that Mrs McCann is a GP. Gerry McCann, we learn is a “consultant cardiologist”.
Says she: “Every day is hard. Every day is very difficult… The important thing is getting Madeleine back and we hope that what we are doing increases the chance of that.”
What’s The Story?
Indeed, that is the important thing. It is the only thing. But the press want more.
Says Gerry McCann: “We have a mix of very positive days, when we have done big things and achieved things or big events with the campaign, but we are aware these things are secondary.”
He’s right. Of course he is. But the press have been pointing fingers at the police, gawping at “creepy” men, listening to anyone with a paedophile story, looking for bodies and signs. They have not been on the trail of Madeleine. They follow the McCanns around, first Spain, then Germany, then the UK, the Vatican and Morocco. They are watching the parents. The parents are the story. And we are invited to look on like voyeurs.
We can wear braclets. Find Madeleine is this year’s Make Poverty History campaign.
Infotainment
The Sun says Gerry McCann is to appear at the Edinburgh TV Festival. No, not because he’s given us hours of great telly. Although he is taking the slot once occupied by Simon Cowell and Michael Barrymore. Gerry will be “quizzed” by Newsnight presenter Kirsty Walk on the media campaign to find Madeleine McCann.
Peter Barron, organiser of the event, rated the Find Madeleine campaign a “new and moving phenomenon”. What was that about good telly?
But it’s scaring the children. The Star says an appeal to find Madeleine is being screened before cinema showings of U-rated Shrek The Third.
Children with faces full of popcorn and crisps hear that Madeleine was “snatched” from her bed. “Madeleine’s parents are devastated, but they haven’t given up hope.”
A mum says it’s “unfair” to show this to children. “It makes them fear that they too could be abducted.”
It spreads the fear. It creates anxiety. And it shows no sign whatsoever of finding Madeleine nor the person or persons who might have taken her…
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July 9th, 2007 at 9:35 pm
I, Like pretty much everyone else, hope upon hope that the litle girl is found safe and well. With the ‘Find Maddie’ whip round approaching an estimated couple of million Sterling, and rising; presumably the McCanns will have more of a predilection to fork out twenty quid for a baby sitter next time.
July 9th, 2007 at 8:45 pm
Exactly Anna - I may not have a very high opinion of them but I’d need a lot of convincing before I entertained the idea of them hiding her body or worse!
Marian - that’s the intriguing question… likewise why is Gordon Brown so officially involved? That’s where a possible Freemason connection could come in perhaps? Ideally the families of ALL children who go missing should recieve the same care and official attention, but that is clearly not going to ever happen, so what is the difference here?
The initial connection with Gordon Brown came through a friend of the McCanns who lives in the same street as Gordon Brown’s brother. When she heard that Madeleine had vanished she went to the sibling and asked him to intervene. It still seems like an awful lot more top level official involvement than a tenuous family connection though. It’s pretty common knowledge that Freemasonry is rife in Politics, and Civil/Public Services (including police, firemen, doctors etc). A large part of Freemasonry doctrine is in helping out a Masonic Brother in need… so it’s not beyond belief.
It does beg the question though of, IF Gordon Brown is a Freemason and prepared to step this far out of normal parameters to help a fellow Mason, then could their be any issues in the future of divided loyalties when it comes to legislation etc on any other matters?
July 9th, 2007 at 8:37 pm
This is all a surprise to me, I thought if I joined this ongoing chat line I might find some hope or strength to cope with the loss of this little girl, then again it is ANORAK so maybe not, this seems to be more a lets see who can insult the other most at times, then there is some humour and underlying concern for this little girl. I have my own concerns about who did take her and where she is now, God protect her, her parents neglected to do this. Lets Think about Maddy the way her careless parents and friends did not. Who is taking the piss from all those who think about that little girl.
July 9th, 2007 at 8:06 pm
I don’t know, I still have a feeling they’re going to find her alive. Wishful thinking, perhaps? I also think it’s going to be in the next few days and that Murat had something to do with it all along. The thought that they’re going to find her body is just too horrible to contemplate.
Right now I feel totally confused about the McCanns but am trying to hangonto the idea they’ve been involved in some kind of damage limitation exercise for the sake of their careers. They sound like rather ‘matter-of-fact’ type parents who don’t spend that much time with their children, paying other people to do most of the childcare, even on holiday. In other words, rather materialistic people with materialistic priorities. Understandable, then, that damage limitation would come first and foremost. Thinking anything else about them - hiding her body etc, is just too gruesome.
July 9th, 2007 at 7:22 pm
Coffee et al,
Why would THIS child warrant such a luminary as Clarence Mitchell though, when so many other kids didn’t.?
July 9th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/HelpMadeleine/
July 9th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
Please sign the petition and ask others to do the same. Please post this on other forums as well.
Help Find madeleine
July 9th, 2007 at 5:55 pm
Anna, I think many have suspected from the weird outset that if it looked to those responsible (and I DON’T mean the alleged ‘kidnappers) that the public was growing suspicious and making a noise about it — then they’d frame someone and make a big charade out of ” Paedophile with lengthy history apprehended in dawn-raid on sex-den by combined UK/Portuguese undercover investigators.” …. or something corny along those lines.
They’ll trot out a story about how brilliant, tireless, undercover police have been watching the ‘paedophile mastermind’ all along.
They’ll claim this is why the press and authorities have said little and appeared to be ‘doing nothing’. All the subterfuge was because of the necessity to lure the monster into the trap, they’ll claim.
And of course, most will buy it. Because it sounds like something out of a movie and unfortunately, many confuse movies with reality.
I doubt they’ll ‘rescue’ Maddy during the fictitious ‘dawn raid’ on the phony sex-den, sad to say.
They’ll probably flood tv screens with graphic images of the phony sex-den cave place, to satisfy the average voyeur’s morbid curiosity.
Then, they’ll stage an impressive inch-by-inch search of some paddock or something, with lots of preoccupied, intelligent looking law enforcement people dressed in black jumpsuits, speaking out of the corners of their mouths into shoulder radios.
Most probably they’ll announce they’ve discovered the remains of what may be the missing child. Then, after a suitable time, they’ll annouce that it is Maddy, I suppose.
They’ll most likely stage a highly publicised phony-trial, involving a notorious ‘paedophile ring’ who’ll be dragged unshaven from police vans. They’ll make sure there are dozens of outraged locals and others there to spit at the framed ‘monsters’.
The average person will cheer and believe Maddy has been avenged and the authorities will come out of it looking like intrepid heroes.
This is the scenario many of us have been dreading. Because we already know in our gut that it will have no actual connection with Maddy and will allow those actually responsible to smile at us through the cameras.
Hope I’m wrong.
Hope their despicable scam falls apart and bites them for all to see.
July 9th, 2007 at 5:55 pm
Well you know the old saying - “Just because you’re paranoid it doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you” lol
It does seem a bit odd that the PJ should be so specific - I guess we will just have to wait and see.
As you know Anna, it’s always been my theory that the anomalies were a form of ‘damage limitation’ which went awry.
July 9th, 2007 at 5:36 pm
Thanks to Suspicious Minds and Anonymous for that information (re: Clarence Mitchell ).
Hope you won’t mind if I repost it here: it’s well worth duplication.
[quote] ” With regard to the Media Blackout, and the likelihood of the press adhering to any unofficial ‘gagging order’ … well don’t forget that Clarence Mitchell is not some Foreign Office lackey - his official title is in fact the Director of the British Government Media Monitoring Unit. A former BBC reporter he has some heavy duty contacts within the industry and if you factor in a possible Freemason connection then media silence is simply explained. [end quote]
And …………
[quote] “Clarence Mitchell, the so called Mccann press officer is the director of the Government’s Media Monitoring Unit. is the reason behind the Media Gag, a government official on loan as a spin doctor to the Mccanns, gagging the social services.
***** The British taxpayer is paying for a media consultant to a private company with no charitable status.***** He is currently on secondment to the Foreign Office for the purpose of looking after the McCanns.” [end quote]
A hell of a lot is falling into place NOW.
Thanks again. I’ve cut and pasted the above information and submitted it elsewhere, where I’m confident it will be of intense interest as well as sincerely appreciated by those trying to get an angle on this slippery bag of worms.
Yes, all falling into place now.
July 9th, 2007 at 5:22 pm
The only thing that worries me is - why publicise the fact they’re about to pounce? Wouldn’t this make it more likely for the kidnappers to kill Madeleine if they’re still holding her? Something probably IS about to happen, though, as last time they said they had a suspect and were about to pounce, they pounced on Murat a few days later.
Perhaps it really was Murat all along, and weird anomalies around the McCanns were to do with their trying to cover up the fact they left them all alone with the doors open - and she wandered off?
July 9th, 2007 at 5:16 pm
There’s some new stuff in the media today - apparently the PJ are about to pounce on a group of suspected kidnappers, as well as planning to bring Murat in for more questioning. They say the case will be wrapped up by the end of the week.
Blimey.
July 9th, 2007 at 5:11 pm
I have come across this website for the 1st time today up until now i have been convinced that she has been abducted, but on reading all your comments im not so sure?
why isnt there 1 clue to suggest where she is maybe she wasn’t in that room at all. what a truly sinister and disturbing case, my heart goes out to that poor beautiful little girl xx
July 9th, 2007 at 5:03 pm
Gosh Coffee and Anonymous - OK, we will do exactly that. No further reference but to warrant a big cheese from the Govt. Media Monitoring Unit????!!!
Thanks for that and the other knowledge you have imparted.
July 9th, 2007 at 4:43 pm
Re Clarence Mitchell, I think “Anonymous” is possibly saying that:
“Clarence Mitchell, the so called Mccann press officer is the director of the Government’s Media Monitoring Unit. is the reason behind the Media Gag, a government official on loan as a spin doctor to the Mccanns, gagging the social services. The British taxpayer is paying for a media consultant to a private company with no charitable status. He is currently on secondment to the Foreign Office for the purpose of looking after the McCanns.”
Or so says dtracey at Yahoo Answers, who also asks that his/her message is cut and pasted wherever it can be, so I’m happy to oblige by directly cutting and pasting the above as requested. Not my own words.
July 9th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
What does that mean for people with low intelect or could you explain in simple English please lol.
To be honest if your saying what i think your saying its a bit paranoid (and for the record i am not one of those wierd posters that steal names and they have stole afew of mine)
July 9th, 2007 at 3:48 pm
Coffee is completely correct - the completely abusive posters, who are generally posting under a variety of names (including our own) are NOT genuine McCann supporters and are best ignored on all levels.
With regard to the Media Blackout, and the likelihood of the press adhering to any unofficial ‘gagging order’ … well don’t forget that Clarence Mitchell is not some Foreign Office lackey - his official title is in fact the Director of the British Government Media Monitoring Unit. A former BBC reporter he has some heavy duty contacts within the industry and if you factor in a possible Freemason connection then media silence is simply explained.
July 9th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
The reason they’re abusive is because they are NOT pro-McCann.
They are PAID disrupters.
Their only intention is to divert attention from the issue.
They will use provocation — personal attack — diversion — mass gang postings — abuse — diversion — diversion — etc. etc.
It’s a worn-to-death online technique which is actually laid out in print in some filthy attic in New York.
These goons are actually *tutored* in this type of topic-disruption, believe it or not.
As a rule, it’s primarily used as a weapon in forums and message boards, to combat conspiracy theorists re: 9-11, Bush and Cheyney’s latest racket, etc., when the conspiracists get too close to the bone for comfort.
That’s when they send in the goon squad.
Many of them are elderly and live in retirement homes, or describe themselves as ’students’ and believe they’re ’sharpening their debating skills’.
Whatever their excuse, they generally receive some form of reward — a few credit points for their latest essay in the case of the ’students’, or possibly food stamps for the elderly ones.
So yes, they’re abusive. They’re deliberately abusive. And when they gain attention and/or disrupt a discussion, they consider themselves ‘Winners for the Cause’. Like prostitutes, they lie down for any ’cause’ that will pay them.
The fact they’re coming out in droves, posing as McCann supporters is PROOF POSITIVE that our suspicions generally about the entire Maddy saga and all those involved — are right on target.
Anyway, now we know who they are and what they’re about and what they hope to achieve.
I vote we dont’ refer to them again, or allow them to disrupt future discussions.
July 9th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
Why are the pro-McCann lobby such common abusive people. Yet the folks that are clearly thinking about Madeleine’s safety are insulted and put down.
The McCann’s brought us into this, with their publicity campaigns, ” to bring Maddy back” we must ask the questions. But the PJ have brought the whole matter back to Portugal, and say there is no international interest.
Hopefully the truth will come out soon. Molly,Coffee & John showing lots of insight.
July 9th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
Now then Mother T !!
Perhaps panic and stress at the thought of being found out may have been the cause. Maybe she just isn’t as good as old Harry at this game.
Interesting that while she is “losing most of her fucking body weight ” her husband is pontificating on his blog about what he had for dinner. Still I suppose one of them has to stay photogenic for the press. Can’t meet the Pope looking like an Ethiopian can we?
July 9th, 2007 at 12:28 pm
if this child had been on holiday with a single parent that parent would have been vilified in the press for leaving them alone whilst they went out to dinner no matter how near the restaurant was the children were still alone
July 9th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
Correction to my above rant… “that the public DO NOT WANT them to back off.”
July 9th, 2007 at 12:11 pm
Coffee, Molly and the like-minded, thanks for putting it so succinctly. I’m in agreement with your general points of view.
Just like to add though that I think if there is some sort of cover-up because the entire story was a fabrication, I cannot see the media going along with it. If the media got facts to suggest that the McCann’s were somehow involved, they would be desperate to get the exclusive and would not back off. I tend to think that the backing off is because they have taken the general sense from boards such as this, that the public WANT them to back off. They don’t want to alienate their readers so they go along with ignoring the neglect aspect. For what it’s worth, I think this will change in the future.
Sky News online asked the public not too long ago whether they should keep the Madeleine story in the forefront or whether just to report any news as it happened. The overwhelming response was to keep her name right up there in the public eye. As such they have a link directly to a sub-site all about Madeleine.
My issue with the McCanns is the fact that they made a huge mistake that (contrary to what they’d like to believe) most of us wouldn’t make, yet they are making out as if they weren’t really to be held accountable. Then they use emotional blackmail in such a way as to make us feel guilty that we’re not doing enough to help locate their missing daughter.
You can’t blame them for doing all that they can, they need to assuage their guilt somehow, and of course they want her back, but nor can you blame some of us for not buying into it.
I was interested to hear Labrador’s theory of accidental killing and cover-up. Hadn’t though of that before, nor had I read it. I do feel that Mr McC has had the look of the guilty man about him but just put it down to the guilt over leaving M alone. Hmmmmm…
Hopefully we’ll get some sort of resolution to this soon. And at the end of the day we’re not forgetting that there is a poor innocent child at the heart of this but while we don’t know what has happened, we’ll continue to speculate.
July 9th, 2007 at 11:53 am
Coffee - your posts are just too long mate! We’re all getting really weary trying to read them. In fact a lot of people on here probably don’t read them any more, so your points are not being made - you are not reaching your target audience.
Try to be more succinct, and you’ll pack more punch.
Or, as mother used to say - “suffers from verbal diarrhoea, that one!”
July 9th, 2007 at 11:09 am
Hooray.
At last people are thinking. There is something disturbingly cliched in the way her parents are behaving - the teddy bear etc.
Almost as if the whole thing was choreographed from day one - ” ok here’s the plan, I’ll walk around with that teddy looking winsome and you can become involved in all sorts of adventures which will show what a great guy you are. Tell you what, let’s ask people to give us their money, because this lifestyle isn’t going to be cheap. By the way, where are we eating tonight?”
July 9th, 2007 at 10:34 am
Molly, you’re the voice of reasoned logic and sanity.
Regardless of what some here would wish to be the case, the fact is, there are most likely half a dozen or more who’re silently reading right now. Just because they don’t comment does not mean they do not have an opinion.
And like most, they’re bound to be sick to death of the (paid?) detractors determined to derail all and any discussion and analysis in this forum as they already have elsewhere online. And that’s reached the attention of MANY !
At first, people were prepared to accept at face value the story told about Madeleine. It didn’t jell with most. But they realised the media often gets things back to front in its haste to be ‘first with the news’.
So people waited, confident that in a week or so, the story would make more sense through confirmed details.
Now they’re tired of waiting and they’re actively involved in information and opinion sharing, seeing that’s the only way they’re going to find out anything. Clearly the media isn’t going to assist. Nor is the McCann website.
It appears the ‘news’ now is confined to the McCann’s fund-raising activities and travels.
But people aren’t concerned with how much money has been raised by the missing child’s parents. Nor are they concerned with what the parents wore yesterday or ate for lunch today.
People also realise that bracelets bearing Maddy’s name are a consumer item, similar to the trinkets people are encouraged to buy after a trip to a theme park or concert: they’re a ‘momento’. They invariably end up in the bin or at the bottom of a drawer.
A child is missing ! A tiny little girl ! It should never have been allowed to happen !
She’s not sleeping peacefully in her bed and unless someone has information to the contrary, there’s absolutely no reason to suspect that Maddy is floating peacefully in Heaven.
Where is she? Is she dead and lying in a shallow grave in bushland ? Is her little body being gnawed by wild animals ? Is she still alive and terrified and in emotional and physical pain in a shack or apartment somewhere, being used as a sex-toy by adults ? Does anyone know ? Who’s looking for her?
And what damn GOOD can a million dollars raised by her parents do for that child, if it’s sitting in a vault somewhere ?
Why isn’t the money being offered as reward for information leading to Maddy’s recovery, alive or dead ? Isn’t that why people GAVE the money in the first place ????
Lately, people have been saying they’re beginning to wonder if Maddy was in that unlocked apartment that night.
Have to say, I’m wondering right along with them now. Especially since so many are actively involved in suppressing discussion, let alone information !
It would explain a lot if the entire story was a fabrication.
—- it would explain the media back-off
— and the parents’ strange detachment and willingness to move on
—- and the parents seeming reluctance to offer substantial reward in return for information
— and the failure of police to find a single clue
— and many of the comments made by hotel and bar staff, witnesses and other guests, etc (all of which have been suppressed and remain unreported by the ms media)
— and the fact the sniffer dogs were led on what might have been a deliberately laid false trail to nowhere
— and the fact that others who were there that night have remained resolutely SILENT
— and the desperate attempts by some to suppress discussion of all the above
So was Maddy in the apartment that night or not?
Not one poster here can prove she was.
Not even the police can prove she was.
The press certainly can’t prove she was.
Are the McCann’s able to prove it ? How?
July 9th, 2007 at 9:52 am
I think the media is worried about a Scouse backlash if they dare imply that these saintly people were in any way implicated.
I mean, remember when the Sun dared to expose the Liverpool fans for the scum they really are? Lost about 100 off their circulation - thats the number of sold papers in Liverpool, due in part to the fact that most can’t read and the others steal theirs.
The McCanns embody all that is wrong in our celebrity obsessed society, they have lost sight of what matters and now think their ‘grief’ is a more newsworthy item than their lost daughter.
Please God the authorities take the children away from these people.
Just because they are doctors, nobody seems to want to point the finger - guess what, Harold Shipman was a doctor. Still convinced of their saintliness?
July 9th, 2007 at 7:43 am
Very well put Coffee.
The UK media is not known for it’s sensitive and caring side - normally in a situation of this kind we would have been bombarded with stories from peripheral characters … waiters, cleaners, other holidaymakers, even patients of the parents - anyone and everyone who the journalists could get to stand still enough for a quote or two. Yet in this case a total media blackout on anything the parents have not approved is patently in place.
That in itself adds to the mystery - since when have our tabloids become so sensitive to the feelings of others that they back off voluntarily? They continue to pillory and ruin the reputations of others on a daily basis so it is not an overall policy to print only ‘nice’ things or what the subject of a story wants us to hear/read… this, added in with the ‘pact of silence’ admitted to by one of the McCanns’ holiday party in the foreign press (where it was admitted that Gerry and Kate want to control all information released) makes people all the more curious.
That’s human nature … we are force fed a story, we see anomalies, we see that information is being strictly controlled in a way that is completely outside the norm - the first thought has to be that things are being hidden, and if that is so then there must be a reason for it … so *what* is that reason?
It may very well be nothing more sinister than a desire by the McCanns to make themselves appear in the best possible light (perhaps even to themselves) - but even if this is the case, surely it has to some extent hampered the police investigation into Madeleine’s disappearance? The police have spent two months following leads related to international child trafficking and apprehending hoaxers after the McCanns much publicised monetary funds. We now hear that the PJ believe Madeleine to still be in Portugal.
It is my belief that the PJ were pressurised by the UK media (initiated by the parents’ claims) into the initial avenues of the search (ie across Europe) and that in doing so any real chance to find Madeleine alive in Portugal has been missed. That makes me angry, and even more determined to find out why the alleged abduction from the apartment was so heavily promoted as the *only* explanation for Madeleine’s disappearance.
I really don’t understand why some people take it so personally when questions are asked - if the McCanns have nothing to hide then there is no reason at all why they should object to people showing an interest and asking questions … isn’t that after all what they have been asking of us since the day that Madeleine went missing - to keep her in the forefront of our minds and to help to find her?
July 9th, 2007 at 4:46 am
It’s a fact of life that when you SELL yourself and your story, you totally FORFEIT all right to dictate terms of discussion.
Too many have learned this at their leisure: the former Duchess of Pork, for example, and even Diana and Charles.
When you SELL yourself and your story —– THAT’s IT ! You’re a commodity; you’re public property; you’ve forfeited your right to privacy and control; the public owns you, as in: ‘ He who pays the piper calls the tune.
The McCann’s SOLD their story and INVITED public interest and participation and CONTINUE to do so.
That which was sold, promoted etc. by the McCanns concerns the alleged mysterious disappearance of their daughter Madeleine McCann.
The McCann’s and their agents, companions, etc. claim Madeleine ‘disappeared’ and/or ‘was taken’ from an unlocked apartment in Portugal, at night, while the parents were in the company of several individuals elsewhere.
Those are the facts provided the public.
That same public’s children were informed ( whilst eagerly anticipating a children’s movie) that little Maddy had been snatched/taken/removed from her bed by person/s unknown.
The public was not asked if it wished its children to be so advised after paying for tickets for a movie that had *not* been advertised as containing content about the alleged ‘removal/snatching’ of a child.
Such has been the frantic media saturation of this story.
The public bought the newspapers and magazines.
The public was repeatedly confronted in its own home by ‘breaking tv news flashes’ about Maddy’s alleged ‘removal/snatching’, etc.
The public was asked for money — BY the McCanns — in direct relation to the alleged disappearance of their daughter.
The public PAYS the government officials who have been providing assistance etc. to the McCanns.
The public has CLEARLY PAID for this story.
Yet the public is and has been, shortchanged.
Because the public is NOT getting sufficient information.
The mass media pushed this story relentlessly.
And that’s all.
That’s all the media has done.
It sought simply to push the Maddy McCann story into everyone’s face.
Then the media backed right off again.
In short — the media titillated the public, created a huge mystery and widespread concern.
And then left it at that.
In other words, the media deliberately created a vacuum.
Obviously, it was foreseen that the public — lacking necessary detail re: the case — would seek to fill in the gaps via discussion and analysis.
Which is precisely what has happened and continues to happen.
Ok.
Maddy is still allegedly ‘missing’.
The McCanns continue their fund-raising campaign.
The UK media swiftly adopted the equivalent of a media black-out re: the case.
Why?
And when the German media asked the McCanns a few innocuous, LOGICAL, REASONABLE questions (exactly the questions the public is asking in fact) …. then the UK media surged into print again in FAUX INDIGNATION !
As if to say: ‘ How dare the GERMANS ask the questions that WE, the UK media, should have been demanding answers to FROM THE BLOODY START ! ‘
And: ‘ How DARE the German media put logical questions to the McCanns when we for some reason have adopted a hands-off policy! ‘
WHAT an orchestrated campaign in sheer hypocrisy on the part of the UK media !
JUST BECAUSE the Uk media used the mysterious, alleged disappearance of a tiny defenceless child to sell papers and tv advertising —- DOESN’T MEAN (apparently) that the UK media actually GAVE a damn about little Madeleine !
And doesn’t mean, obviously, that the UK media had any intention of following up with information for the public which was INUNDATED two months ago by that SAME UK media which profited hugely from Maddy’s plight.
Apparently, every journalist and talking-head employed within the Uk media has EITHER LOST INTEREST in Maddy —– OR, has been INSTRUCTED from ABOVE that they should NOT engage in legitimate journalism and should NOT ask Maddy’s parents any ‘inconvenient’ or ‘uncomfortable’ questions at all.
Which of course simply adds further mysterious elements to the case and stokes further discussion and analysis by the public.
July 9th, 2007 at 4:42 am
Do any of you guys have a life? You should try getting one you know.