Madeleine McCann: An Anorakians Story
IN the Anorak Forums Spudgun writes: “So when the tragedy that unfolded, concerning a young child named Madeleine McCann, in Praia da Luz on the 3rd May 2007, I was drawn to this case with perhaps a slightly greater initial interest and concern than my fellow countryman. Here was a child from my own nation, missing from a country that I love and which I consider to be my second home.
My own personal concerns and interests in this case have never particularly related to whether the McCanns are innocent or guilty, but rather, why we have a British Press and Government that appears hell bent on TELLING us that the McCann’s are inarguably innocent, and doing so in a manner that I consider threatens to seriously taint the very alliance that has existed between our countries for 630 years.
By virtue of the secrecy laws that encapsulate the Portuguese judicial system, this was always only ever going to be a case presented entirely by the media with little or next to no ‘official’ input, making it impossible to distinguish between what could be factual, fabrication or just plain speculation. From an early stage in the proceedings, however, apparent doubts and suspicions surrounding the McCanns began to surface in the Portuguese press and media, claiming to be citing Polícia Judiciária sources.
Some of these suspicions were picked up on and reprinted in the British newspapers but only ALWAYS with the added clarification that the stories were “scurrilous lies”, “outrageous allegations” or “ludicrous claims” and NEVER without the statement from “sources/friends close to the McCanns”, asserting that it was all “hurtful and unhelpful speculation”.
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December 14th, 2007 at 7:27 pm
Karen, i agree with you. How anyone can try and justify that it was ok to leave children alone is beyond me. Recognising the pain that the Mcs must be going through if Madeleine was abducted, doesnt mean that you cannot have an opinion on the fact, that they saw fit to leave their children, alone night after night. This doesnt mean you are an unfeeling monster, its just dealing with the facts. And as they are pretty sparse, it hardly seems right to ignore the ones we do know for sure.
December 14th, 2007 at 6:03 pm
Very well put! But as to the media shenanigans, being “sane” and “rational” doesn’t sell much print now does it?
Most of the MM debacle is a media blitz overload by design, tsk, tsk tsk…..media whores undies are in a knot squeezing out every shameless half-baked lie/truth, or whatever else their little imaginations can create just to sell papers…..it’s a media war and who can be more outrageous is the winner - the reading public, the wise peruser of intelligent information, is the loser, and I don’t think it matters a hill of beans what the media prints as to success of this investigation.
Sorry, but it is not a problem peculiar to England - it is a world wide lowering of media standards and the worship of the all mighty lucre and not the worship of integrity or anything nearly as honorable as “getting to the truth” of the matter.
Truth has very little to do with it.
December 14th, 2007 at 2:00 pm
Because they would find themselves being prosecuted if they tell the truth.
December 14th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
I agree with Spudgun. What’s driven me crazy about this case is the way I’ve been made to feel like some kind of monster just because I think that leaving children alone is wrong. I don’t think the McCanns deserved to have their child kidnapped (if that’s what happened) and I don’t want them to be hurt any further - but I don’t understand why it can’t be acknowledged that they made a very stupid decision.