Madeleine McCann: Spies, Richard Branson PI And Maddy TV
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann.
DAILY EXPRESS front page: “MADELEINE. SPY-IN-SKY PLAN TO FIND HER KIDNAPPER.”
So she was kidnapped. Wasn’t she?
“Satellite and aerial footage as well as internet traffic should be used to help the hunt,” say “intelligence experts”, including Professor Anthony Glees, Director of Brunel University’s Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies. Security is his thing.
Pages 4 and 5: “Riddle of the McCanns’ day out” – Why did the McCanns go to Spain on August 3 and what did they do there? Clarence Mitchell says the TV cameras and journalists tracked their every move.
“Branson: They are innocent” – Richard Branson PI calls it a “grotesque nightmare”. He has donated £100,000 to help the McCanns clear their name. He says the McCanns have “the weight and support of Britain behind them”.
THE SUN front page: “OUTRAGE AS COPS CLAIM MADDIE ‘BURIED IN SPAIN’.”
Pages 6 and 7: “POLICE PROBE LOST 2 HOURS” – Police Claim the McCanns buried Madeleine during a “missing two hours” in Spain.
Kate and Gerry are “shattered”.
Says the Sun:
“SUSPICIOUS the trip was postponed from the day before – because Gerry had intestinal problems.
“’STRANGE’” that the couple from Rothley, Leics, chose to visit Spain on a national holiday, when the shops were shut.
“MYSTERIOUS that the McCanns racked up ‘unjustified mileage’ in their Renault Scenic – hired 25 days after Maddie disappeared.”
A source says a new ad campaign to find Madeleine will start in two weeks.
DAILY MAIL page 3: “Police use CCTV to map McCanns trips.”
As newspaper Correio de Manha reports, Spanish police have given their Portuguese counterparts CCTV footage “showing the Renault Scenic in places in Spain where there was ‘no reason’ for the couple to be.”
A TV series based on Madeleine McCann is being produced in Chile. Says Chilean newspaper El Mercurio: “The case is becoming a soap opera.”
DAILY MIRROR front page: “KATE IS SO FRAGILE. Fears for mum after latest blow.”
Kate McCann’s face is all over the front page. “The anguish is plain to see.” A friend hears that Madeleine had not been found in Morocco: “Kate is so fragile. She’s suffering a devastating disappointment.”
Page 5: “They suffered a devastating blow with the false alarm in Morocco. Kate has crashed.”
“COPS PROBE SPAIN TRIP.”
DAILY STAR pages 6 and 7: “MADDIE DUMPED IN SPAIN.” An “exclusive”.
THE TIMES page 16: Mick Hume says: “The line between investigation and emotive entertainment has disappeared.”
THE TELEGRAPH page 6: “Portuguese focus on McCanns’ Spain trip” – Clarence Mitchell says the McCanns are innocent.
THE GUARDIAN and THE INDEPENDENT: no Madeleine news today.
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September 28th, 2007 at 9:12 pm
There used to be a fantastic web support forum for ’survivors’ of NPD and BPD relationships. Sadly It has been a long time since I posted there and I cannot remember it’s name - I did find it through Helen’s BPD Resources though if that helps
My own experience is mainly with Borderline PD, which is nasty enough, but I have known a few Narcissists, though thankfully have never lived with one. The thing about NPD’s is their ability to suck people in with their charm, chew them up and then spit them out mercilessly once they have served their purpose - totally ruthless, but completely justifiable to themselves.
It is difficult to blame them - many are the products of an abusive childhood, emotional if not physical - and it IS a mental disorder, they really do not choose to be like they are and the nature of the disorder is such that they are totally incapable of acknowledging they have a problem, which makes treatment impossible… They are still best kept clear of though - truly evil people who disguise themselves like chameleons
September 28th, 2007 at 9:11 pm
833. Exactly. Keep the kiddies up at night on hols, playing with all the others ones about.
They might fall asleep on a lap, some are still going strong when you’ve had enough and have to be dragged home. The restaurants and family bars don’t mind at all – more likely to bring the children a little treat.
And you might just get a lie-in the next morning, otherwise tthey are uup aqt crack of dawn. If I was on holiday with kids who played with Family X’s at the pool during the day, or even went to creche together, I’d find it really strange if we were at a table next to them at 8,30 or 9pm, and my kids are saying “Where’s Freddie/ Maddie?” and Family X say “They’re all in bed.” I’d also think - “So what the bloody hell are you doing here?”
The other thing people USUALLY do on these hols is bung all the kids in together. Like top and tail a couple in the parent’s bed in one holiday flat, and on the couch bed. That way you can either a) have just one or two people take it in turn to look after the lot, or b) have the bloody party in the room next to where all the kids are snoozing in a heap.
September 28th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
How old are you, Mike?
You’re probably quite proud about that, but I’d keep it to yourself if I were you.
September 28th, 2007 at 9:09 pm
When Animals blink their eyes often - it is a calming techinique - specifically dogs to calm themselves and others - I wonder if people blink often for the same instinctive reasons?
September 28th, 2007 at 9:09 pm
Stevo & Judith C,
Maybe ImModeration is Krissie? Strange how all within 15 minutes of mentioning he/she/it…….it appeared?!
I feel the slightly sidetracked NPD thread is very appropriate this evening. There are so many here crying, “Talk about something I know about! Or I’m going to tell Anorak your messing up his bandwith!”
If Krissie is a journalist and has been for the past 20 years I doubt she could do the job unbiasedly or properly interview difficult evasive people (like the McCanns) having such a terrible temper.
September 28th, 2007 at 9:06 pm
Ive just come.
September 28th, 2007 at 9:03 pm
Moderation (Ms) … you give yourself away sometimes!
September 28th, 2007 at 9:03 pm
837 - Stickler
Nice one….or is it NICE one?
September 28th, 2007 at 9:01 pm
830 Carmen … so when are you ACTUALLY planning on contributing to the Madeleine discussion this evening? You only pop up when you’ve got something nasty to say …. not nice! If you want to discuss that which you seem so passionate about, then go ahead, we will fall in with your debate!
September 28th, 2007 at 9:01 pm
“I”m a journalist, and TRUST me”.
Well! Just like those in the tabloids!
Welcome back Krissie, although more ranting please - you were great fun the other night; more subdued today I sense. Too much garlic perhaps.
September 28th, 2007 at 9:01 pm
I just love that I am so important you talk about me all the time even when I’m out enjoying myself!
Guess you’re all just envious of my easy wit and gentle logic……..
September 28th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
826 ‘The very vocal but slightly contradictory Krissie’
There you are on the one hand saying… “oh you beastly people, stop saying terribly nasty things about the McCanns, lets see if they are guilty first”
Well, thats the flavour in the media as well .. and I’m sure you could find a ‘Journo’ who would find someone with an anecdotal story about KM… but you won’t find an editor willing to print it in the current climate
September 28th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
830 - Carmen
Nobody was ever stopping you from making a post. Like a lot in here, you spit your dummy out because it wasn’t what you wanted to hear…i.e. the focus wasn’t on YOU. That’s what narcissistic means.
September 28th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
823. I too feel the McCann children bedtime super early. Especially for kids on holiday? We always stayed up a bit later than usual. I would be pleasantly surprised if our kids could be put to sleep that early in the evening so we could enjoy getting drunk and eating chorizo and calamari playing a trivia game out in our garden.
Seriously though our kids are both under the age of 6 and do not go to bed until 9 or 10 during the summer or when we are on holiday. I have friends who have children a little older 8-10 and they also stay up very late. These kids aren’t hyper active or spoiled either. If ours went to sleep at 7:30 thy’d wake up at 4am!
September 28th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
826 - krissie
If you’re in the USA then I doubt there’s any papers you’ve been reading that have this info.
My point is that if you’re going to have a sensible discussion then put your money where your mouth is when you make a claim of having seen evidence. Don’t then go off trying to dismiss it because you can’t find or remember what your claim is or where you saw it. That’s what all the pro-McCanns do in this site. I’m not saying you’re pro or anti but back your evidence up please or anything you say becomes diminished as it’s your own opinion and not fact.
September 28th, 2007 at 8:55 pm
Krissie, you sure you aint that she-cat? She loves telling me to go look it up myself ……. just checking !!!!!
September 28th, 2007 at 8:54 pm
823 - James
I’ve been fortunate to have taken my kids on holidays since they were babies in arms. I always liked that kids under 2 flew for free so I never wasted time taking my kids all over the place.
I’d also love to take my kids wherever we went out. On holiday there’s no “bedtime” as such and the Mediterranean folk love kids and have no qualms about you taking them to a restaurant where you sit and drink wine etc. and have your kids there as well. My memories of that are just that - being sat around with some other families you meet out there and all your respective kids joining in. Why the Tapas 9 felt they had to have an adults only night when it was only a bloody quiz night for goodness sake. It wasn’t like there was some adult entertainment like a stripper or something unsuitable for toddlers was it?
September 28th, 2007 at 8:54 pm
For those of you wondering …. moderation is a she-cat!
September 28th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
#812 - Stig. Your response proves my point!
September 28th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
Stevo, we’re obviously reading different newspapers. I’ve seen them all over the place. Go look it up yourself! Even so, SO WHAT? LIke I said, if they appeared in every newspaper article around, you guys would just chalk it up to the well-organized media campaign of Team McCann and blame them for organizing character support instead of searching for their daughter. So what’s your point? Because there are only three or four people who’ve publicly said they know and love the McCanns, they are suspect?? As previously mentioned, I”m a journalist, and TRUST me, we LOVE public character assassination. If there were people around who DISLIKED the McCanns, who had some scary personal stories regarding their behavior, the journalists would be ALL OVER IT. I guarantee you, the journos have been pursuing those stories wherever they can. To me, the LACK of negative character stories indicates there aren’t many of them. Any journalist worth her weight can dig up “I knew Kate when she was 12 and thought she was narcissistic even then” stories.
September 28th, 2007 at 8:51 pm
820. I was actually wondering about the “dozens” of character witnesses. I was trying to say I’ve only read a few properly credited all the dozens I have heard of are listed as “close friend of the family” or something like that and have not seen anything on tv/video with friends coming forward
September 28th, 2007 at 8:49 pm
One theory in this site that’s been mentioned before is that perhaps some McCann family members are contributors. It could explain a lot…
September 28th, 2007 at 8:48 pm
Not a McCann suppporter, that website diary is enough to give me the creeps.
However, one thing that does seem to have been overlooked is that us Brits seem to have forgotten holiday circumstances when we did leave kids alone in their beds while we – and their older brothers and sisters – partied.
Back in the 1960s and early 70s when British holiday camps - with caravans or chalets – were drawing in all the ordinary folk for cheap hols, there would be entertainment after the evening meal which started with magicians and the like for the little kiddies and then at a certain time, say 8,30pm, the pied pipers of Red Coats or Blue Coats would start some ‘off to bed’ song and music and all the rugrats and little ones would go off to be put in bed by parents.
For the rest of the evening the camp staff would wander the campsite witth torches and walkie talkies as mobile child minders, and every now and again you’d hear on the microphone “Baby crying in Chalet 413″ or “Children Up in Caravan 612″ and a parent would troop off to sort it.
All changed now, because we don’t leave our kids and the camps wouldn’tt allow it under health and safety most likely.
And now anyone who has taken kids to Portugal knows how much the locals love them and that normal family life there allows the kids to be up at all hours, they can even curl up for a nap in the corner of restaurants.
I’ve seen people wheeling pushchairs into late night family-style cafes. I have never got over the idea that the McCann kids, and other kids in their holiday set, were all put to bed at all so early.
September 28th, 2007 at 8:48 pm
815. LOL Judith I have appreciated many of your fine comments. I almost spit my coffee out the other day when I believe you called him/her/it “incontinent”! I had done the very same at one point. That person thrives on dis-information and is quite pompous. His/her constant kevetching at others for all their basing theories on “innuendo and hearsay” yet he/she feels their media digestion is somehow more factural than what the rest of us poor slobs can get a hold of. I just loved the comment about how he/she reads a “cross section” of hard copies and then magically spins and twirls and absorbs the stories and is able to sift out the wheat from the chaff.
Totally obnoxious, outrageous and as Gerry would say: LUDICROUS!
September 28th, 2007 at 8:48 pm
819 - Chloe
Perhaps Carmen is narcissistic?
I appreciate that you found it interesting. Like I said to Carmen, I was only politely answering other postings. Why some people get uptight because they feel left out of the loop probably tells you more about their own personality.
September 28th, 2007 at 8:46 pm
816 - anonymous
I don’t disbelieve you or krissie. I’ve looked for them myself but found nothing. Some links and/or friends’ names would be good.
September 28th, 2007 at 8:45 pm
(791) Stevo (796) Julie
I really can’t imagine why Carmen objects to people discussing personal experiences that come to mind in the light of what is under discussion. I didn’t know anything about NPD but I’ve googled it and it has thrown some light on the behaviour of somebody I know. So I, for one, appreciate the discussion having taken place.
September 28th, 2007 at 8:44 pm
814 - Julie
Yep, I know.
If you genuinely knew you had nothing to do with this and the tide of opinion had turned against you, wouldn’t you be doing ANYTHING to show you were blameless? I mean…the lie detector test is a no-brainer. Answering questions where you reply “no, I had nothing to do with this” are too obvious to wonder why they won’t do any of these things.
If it was me, I’d prove it wasn’t me….easy to do because I’d know it wasn’t me.
September 28th, 2007 at 8:44 pm
612, Marie,
I think it is the Prime Minister or the Defence Minister who should be emailed about this, rather than David Cameron:
http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/20370
September 28th, 2007 at 8:43 pm
809. I’ve read about 3 or 4 about the McCanns which were proper quotes with friends’ names (alleged friends) credited to the quote.
And then yesterday or Wednesday comments from Kate’s college friends about how she was more interested in going to the pub than studying and was extremely popular because they thought she looked like the character “Hot Lips Hoolihan”???? I don’t know if they meant Loretta Switt or Sally Kellerman but she in no way resembles either actor.