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?
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September 18th, 2007 at 9:40 am
54 ~ Veres…hahha very good…. well be warned it was in full throttle last night…. team pr mccann is in overdrive… and anorak is on its radar
September 18th, 2007 at 9:38 am
44
Despite having no TV I can always hang around in here reading the pro McCann verbal diarrohea
September 18th, 2007 at 9:38 am
48 UK and I know if it was one of my kids, I would move heaven and earth to look for them, I wouldn’t be visiting Pope’s, Edinburgh Festivals and I WOULD be going to the places where there had been sightings. I wouldn’t exercise my right to silence, as I wouldn’t need too, if asked did I kill my child, the answer is no, the answer is not I don’t wish to answer. I would tell the truth at all times
But it wouldn’t be one of my kids, because I wouldn’t leave them alone.
49 Do you think that from the start 80% of people thought they were lying? Or just 80% on here?
September 18th, 2007 at 9:37 am
and if nothing else, the mccanns should be billed for the billions of lost productivity while people have been trying to establish what they were up to on holiday.
September 18th, 2007 at 9:35 am
48
like when my wife said she was going to kill me last night.
i’m sure answering ‘did you say u were going to kill your husband yesterday’ (if i’d got murdered lat night for example) wouldn’t be in her best interest.
September 18th, 2007 at 9:33 am
46 Pass. I thought it was unlocked door, deliberately-tampered-with window.
September 18th, 2007 at 9:33 am
45
it seems more a case of being made to have public sympathy.
if the bbc had dared report anything at all, and if both sides of the story had been in the english media it would be a different story.
as it is, about 80% of people think theyre lying.
as always, it’s not what you know, it’s who
September 18th, 2007 at 9:32 am
SSS - I read carefully what you wrote and it was this part that I was addressing: “innocent people do not need to exercise their right to silence, as nothing they say will implicate them”
Sometimes it’s best for them to keep their mouth shut anyway, for they may dig themselves into a hole. Doesn’t matter if they are innocent. I don’t know what country you’re in, but innocent people probably anywhere can make their situation a whole lot worse when they open their mouths.
September 18th, 2007 at 9:30 am
Well said Rab.
September 18th, 2007 at 9:30 am
Also does anyone know how the locked door tampered window became unlocked door not tampered window?
who said it was who found out it wasnt?
September 18th, 2007 at 9:30 am
40 Do you think that is because most people came to, if not like the Teflon 2, then certainly feel for them so they have public sympathy. No one likes to think they have been taken for a fool, so easier to say “They’ve been framed” then say “I’m a gullible fool”.
September 18th, 2007 at 9:29 am
good morning all you die hards….did i really waste the last 12 hours sleeping, eating and re-aquainting my self with my family; even my kids refer to me as gerry, now that i know so much {little} about him, i feel like a close family friend……and instead of doing all that I could have spent all the time on anorak…..what a lively debate last night…… even hitler got mentioned in dispatches.
I should also just say a good morning to team pr mccann who are looking in [yes you know who you are]. Please pass on my congrats to Sir Clarence in his first [official] day in his new job. We’re all routing for him.
Meanwhile, anyone want to buy a telly ?….. its a bit used and its got a boot stuck right in the middle of the broken screen….. but the good news is you won’t have to watch any of that crap peddled out by the mccann pr sausage machine….
September 18th, 2007 at 9:29 am
its called ‘not having the right to silence anymore’ i think
September 18th, 2007 at 9:28 am
39 I couldnt think what its called, am trying to work too lol.
September 18th, 2007 at 9:26 am
didn’t know u had a PM
September 18th, 2007 at 9:26 am
I think we are witnessing one of the most brazen and disgraceful media manipulations. It seems akin to New Labour’s tactics whilst under Blair and Campbell.
It is one thing to employ these measures for party politics, but in the disappearance of a young child I find it unsettling.
Whatever the truth behind this case, the McCann’s solipstic and egocentric use of PR to contrive a favourable persona instead of focusing on finding their missing daughter is distasteful.
It is entirely possible the PJ have made mistakes in this case and that the “evidence” against the McCanns is weak, but this will, if true, be found out in due process. What bothers me is the cry of framing and the public’s reaction to this; usually when someone cries conspiracy the public treats it with general skepticism, but not in this case.
September 18th, 2007 at 9:26 am
miranda’s american
September 18th, 2007 at 9:25 am
Imagine this scenario:
Mr X, in theatre today you’ll be operated on by Gerry McCann. No thanks, I’ll go back to the bottom of the waiting list if it’s all the same. These two won’t be able to work in the medical profession again. No one would want to be treated by them. Doctor, my little girl isn’t well, oh no, it’s you, can I have someone else please?
September 18th, 2007 at 9:24 am
29
When the new Miranda came out back at the beginning of the 90’s, it was re worded so that if some one DID exercise their right to silence, it was taken as an admission of guilt. I remember the big media hoo ha about it and on a lighter note, the writers of The Bill said it was too long!
For myself, I think we should always look for TRUTH, not innocence or guilt as they are perceptions. What one person perceives to be wrong, or illegal, another might not - that is why some people commit crimes and others don’t. Morality varies from person to person. TRUTH however is important.
Also, you seem to think that what I said was my OWN view. Not necessarily, I was just pointing out that in this country, exercising your right to silence is considered an admission of guilt.
I am getting a little tired of people reading what they want to read rather than reading what is written.
Please re read : I said, interestingly in this country…… because if this happened in this country, the PM would be saying but why exercise your right to silence etc because of the way that things are slanted over here. I never said it was right…..it just is.
September 18th, 2007 at 9:24 am
Does anyone know apart from the portugese press and journalists
if there are any who do not bow to the mc cann halo and report about actual evidence about the afternoon before she went missing.
Its always “a staff member”
no interveiws, no cctv, no creche records, no proof except a photo which isnt
September 18th, 2007 at 9:24 am
33 Sharon
You forgot “innit”.
;o)
September 18th, 2007 at 9:23 am
Most posters know where I stand (I don’t believe for a moment they killed their daughter) but regardless….
If she was killed and if she was buried somewhere on the vicinity… could the pj not borrow one of the imaging machines?
They have been used to detect bodies buried hundreds of years ago by archaeologists, why not use one to check the streets and church? Surely someone would lend them one? I can’t see how any random digging could be reliable.
Re: the medical profession.. providing they are not found guilty of anything then the NHS cannot refuse them their jobs that they both still have! They are on unpaid leave, they haven’t left…….
September 18th, 2007 at 9:19 am
SSS, how can u say that!!! of dubious parents? thats simply a fib, there’s one male parent (can’t remember who) might be Dave who works at Fords, might be Pete from Durham who built the bridge, might be the milkman paid in loo but all my kids ave diffrunt dads, they meanter aintthey but the twinses dad is the same one, i fink
September 18th, 2007 at 9:19 am
sss
hopefully every town will have one soon
September 18th, 2007 at 9:18 am
Judge Dread
Congratulations on being 1st, 2nd, 8th, 11th, 19th and 25th
September 18th, 2007 at 9:17 am
30th
September 18th, 2007 at 9:17 am
SSS - so I guess any case can be decided right from the start - if the defendent exercises right to silence then they must be guilty, if not they must be innocent? Let’s do away with the courts then, no need for them.
September 18th, 2007 at 9:16 am
26
Perhaps if Sir Ricky can’t afford it, Jeremy Kyle might be able too. Think of the ratings!
September 18th, 2007 at 9:14 am
21 I do not know what a “chav” is but I think it has something to do with living in Essex and wearing tracksuits and baseball caps? A person possibly with children of dubious parentage? Anyhow, I DO think and have said all along, that Miss X living on Social Security on a council estate, leaving her kids to nip to the “offy” for another bottle of Canei (the drink of choice of chavs perhaps?) or WKD, would have had any remaining children taken off her so fast, if she blinked she would miss it!
23 Of course they won’t be welcomed back into the medical profession! Would you want either of them minstering to you?
September 18th, 2007 at 9:13 am
I was looking for the youtube of the Tapas 9 and found these gems.
“Prey for Madeleine
Please we need your support Watch this video and Pass on to your friends and family…Madeleine maddy help prey mccann message ”
Prey? I’m laughing and I shouldn’t be. English is probably his/her 2nd language. Hahaha. Sorry.
The next is another video. Holy shite! It’s called, “McCanns…featuring other actors..”. It has a caption that reads, “This is a video response to kate mccann the killer”. Reactions will differ, it’s one of those loveit/hate it things.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fpsi1qUlyQ
“Kate McCann the Killer” is shocking, so shocking I laughed my arse off. I have a very twisted and dark sense of humor and this really appealed to it. Warning, not for the faint or stong Kate defenders.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F46kt-NR8OU
Be sure and read the comments. People are strange.
I made it through the next one because the kid is so young and so passionate, though not polished at all. I listened to what he had to say as it’s usually adults who feel as he.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwsqXg71HXo