Madeleine McCann: Clarence Mitchell Speaks, Make Madeleine History And Breastfeeding
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann.
DAILY MAIL pages 10 and 11: “Madeleine cried for 18 hours a day. Kate tells of the special bond forged in the painful days of early childhood.”
Kate McCann is speaking with Portuguese magazine Flash!. This interview took place before Kate McCann was named as a suspect in Madeline’s disappearance. Kate says the first six months with Madeleine were “very difficult”. Madeleine had colic. “I had to carry her around permanently,” says Kate.
What does it mean, this interview that has “emerged”? That what you tell magazines can be taken out of context and used in evidence against you, or something else?
THE TIMES page 9: “McCanns go straight to the top in search for powerful backers.”
Gordon Brown is being kept abreast of the investigation on Kate and Gerry McCann, possibly by reading the British press and watching the news bulletins.
(Is any MP still wearing a yellow ribbon?)
The McCanns have a new spokesman. He’s called Clarence Mitchell. He resigned as head of the Government’s Media Monitoring unit to take this new post.
Mr Mitchell once offered: “There’s a whole level of debate taking place online which simply didn’t exist before and departments feel they need to be fully engaged in that.”
Look out for Kate’s blog.
DAILY MIRROR front page: “THE TIDE TURNS.”
“McCanns WON’T be ordered back to Portugal says Judge”
“Gordon Brown briefed on the case”
“New spokesman will declare Gerry and Kate innocent today”
Clarence Mitchell says: “They have nothing whatever to do with Madeleine’s disappearance.” And as the McCann’s new spokesman he should know.
Pages 4 and 5: “RAY OF HOPE.”
Madeleine has not been found but Kate and Gerry McCann will not have to fly back to Portugal for more questioning.
On the downside sales of the “Look for Madeleine” wristband are not going well in Portugal. In “LOCALS REJECTS ‘FIND HER’ BRACELETS,” this year’s Make Poverty History band is being turned down at a car boot sales in Praia da Luz.
Says one ex-pat: “It’s as if they want to forget something so horrible happened.” Or buy something less with their money?
Says another: “We can’t understand how they can carry on jogging after losing Madeleine. Gerry went to a hairdressers a few weeks after she disappeared and continued tennis lessons. The Portuguese feel they should b hysterical.” But not the British, who understand reserve…
THE SUN front page: “MADDIE COPS SLAPPED DOWN. KATE BACKED BY JUDGE. Mum won’t be hauled back to Portugal.”
Judge Pedro Anjos Frias rejected Portuguese police calls for the McCanns to return. “He is thought to have ruled the case to flimsy to justify the move.” Or, to put it another way, he has not received sufficient evidence to be convinced of the need for a trial.
Pages 4 and 5: “COPS CASE COLLAPSING.”
And: “McCanns tell Brown: We have solid defence.” Gordon Brown’s reaction to this news is not known.
THE INDEPENDENT page 32: Thomas Sutcliffe says the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has been “yoked by journalists to another kind of story – the primal faction of fairytale”. Here “the beautiful child is swallowed by something that has emerged from the dark”.
It is, is it not, every child’s worst nightmare.
Page 4: “Kate McCann ‘will not be reinterviewed in Portugal’.”
DAILY EXPRESS front page: “MADELEINE POLICE CASE FALLS APART.”
“Judge refuses to recall the McCanns”
“Impossible to detect sedatives in hair”
“But slurs against the parents continue”
Slurs?
Pages 8 and 9: “My struggles to control Madeleine – BY KATE MCCANN.”
As told to Flash! magazine. The twins arrive. “The worst thing is that she started to demand lots of attention, especially when I was breastfeeding them.”
DAILY STAR front page: “MADDIE ALL SEVEN McCANN PALS IN FRAME.” The seven dwarves, to continue Mr Sutcliffe’s analogy?
“Cops set to name them as suspects.”
Pages 6 and 7: “BRIT PALS ALL SUSPECTS.”
The Tapas 9 are in the frame. This will put the lid – the tapas – on the case. Right?
“Maddie cops jet to UK as group face grilling” – Portuguese police are “planning” to come to the UK to continue the investigation. British police will conduct interviews.
DAILY TELEGRAPH page 8: “McCanns to be interviewed by British police.”
Kate and Gerry are also keen to reach Gordon Brown. A source tell the paper: “The McCanns do not expect help or influence to be exerted on their behalf but want to get messages to the very top that they are innocent.”
Does Brown read the Telegraph?
THE GUARDIAN page 35: “Never mind the high street: Branson sells his Virgin Megastores.”
No mention of Madeleine McCann, granted, but this news one day after Branson pledged to help the parents clear their names looks like interesting timing?
Posted: 18th, September 2007 | In: Madeleine McCann Comments (1,047) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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September 18th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
259 - what are the media doing exactly to find Madeleine?
In fact what is actually been done by anyone to find her?
September 18th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
255~ I can’t actually understand the media spin on this, that somehow it’s weakening the case…”judge rejects request”.
I think it’s a smart move… it reads to be more like “Look, we don’t want them and the circus here, you don’t believe us anyway… maybe you’ll trust your own police more”
September 18th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
255 ~ Tboy … I am happy to be corrected but I am sure that it was widely reported in the last couple of days that the mccanns have issued the statement that they would now only go back to protugal if legally compelled to do so…
September 18th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
Is it only on this forum we have a high concentration of Madeleine speculation?
On every other forum and media they are purely focusing on finding Madeleine?
Oh, does anybody have a life after the case is solved any day not soon…
September 18th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
Paul Potts could play GM is he shed some timber, he’s got the smug tw@t act off to a tee so he should slide straight into the role.
September 18th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
new forum out I was first I was first I was first
September 18th, 2007 at 12:21 pm
I didnt realise Aunty Phil had a T-shirt on, I thought someone had installed a window in her.
September 18th, 2007 at 12:20 pm
Now I have a problem which I’m sure you can all help me with.
The prosecutor seems to have denied the police’s request to bring them back to Portugal, so obviously the police want to talk to them.
When the McCanns left portugal, Gerry said that they would go back should the police want them to.
Now here is the dilema - should they return to Portugal as it seems the police WOULD like to talk to them (a promise is a promise remember) or should they skulk over here, hiding behind the prosecutors skirts.
Great play was made of “proving our innocence”, but I have to wonder how you do this when you aren’t there to prove the accusations false.
September 18th, 2007 at 12:19 pm
251 ~ Maicen …for the very simple reason that there is no such thing in the uk as free press… well not the main tabloids for sure…
September 18th, 2007 at 12:18 pm
just a quick question, why does Maddie look much “plumper” on auntie Phils T shirt than she does on Kates,
Ok back to this, Pavrotti was going to play Auntie Phil but the shock of having to wear a hideous red wig put play to that idea
September 18th, 2007 at 12:18 pm
Sir Richard Branston could play himself like he always does.
September 18th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
Pixie 214.. mine also ignored.!!!!!!!!!! Typical…see how biased it all is.. how can public make any logical opinion when press do this nonsense.????
September 18th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
for the mccmovie… GM would have to be ricky gervais….are you havin a laugh…?
September 18th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
http://www.mutantreviewers.com/rweirds2.jpg
This is rumoured to be playing Philomena.
September 18th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
maybe tanner and obrien have maddie safe on a yacht
and made mc canns think it was normal to leave them alone
“they’ve taken her”
maybe o briens got something on mc canns and holding maddie, thats why they know shes alive but cant speak as o brien will spill about the other thing too
maybe gm & km are trying to get her back but cant name them for fear of previous misdamenors leeking out
September 18th, 2007 at 12:14 pm
Tom Hanks would make a good Robert Murat
September 18th, 2007 at 12:14 pm
244 ~ Toni ….well said…. in the words of the great tracey beaker….gerry whats the colour of the sky in your world ?
September 18th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
Harvey Keitel for GM for me, in the movie.
September 18th, 2007 at 12:12 pm
exactly, this story is running in 2 universal paralells, one is what the PJ think and what the PR are defending, and the truth as uncovered by the arm chair sleuths in an anorak,
my monies on the latter
September 18th, 2007 at 12:12 pm
240 ~ Macien …. more’s the bloody pity !
September 18th, 2007 at 12:12 pm
Seymour Butts more like.
September 18th, 2007 at 12:11 pm
239 ~ Veres…this case is full of leeds but alas no answers !
September 18th, 2007 at 12:11 pm
206 Seymour Laws.
! Obviously : A guilty person not being convicted, as they are free to commit crimes again
An innocent person wrongly convicted ,has a better chance of getting appeal, and new evidence to clear them We do not hang them any more you know.
Thought you were a lawyer ??
September 18th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
230
SSS
Leeds
September 18th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
231. Ha Ha very funny…. was forensics in the friends apartments?
September 18th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
Could there be a blackmail aspect to all this? Haven’t really thought it through. Why would anybody (O’Brien?) put that cell phone footage on YouTube?
September 18th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
235 - What, a farce you mean?
September 18th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
220 - SSS. I never thought of that, he’d be perfect for Phil. In the film, they should only show her on the sofa talking to a camera or her telly when no one else is there.
Trouble is, if I was making the film I’d make it a comedy - but no film company would get away with it, what with all the friends in high places the McCanns have - the best we can hope for is a So-Bad-It’s-Brilliant Hollywood Melodrama - like Mommie Dearest or Whatever Happened to Baby Jane.
September 18th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
The truth needs no press agent
September 18th, 2007 at 12:07 pm
220 ~ Wow SSS… not bad hey…. a simple 1 liner post and you get a job offer… you are good…very good…