Madeleine McCann: McCann Incorporated, McCann Ink And Going Back To Portugal
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
SUNDAY MIRROR: “Tapas 7 in despair at all the ‘lies’”
They say they are also called the Tapas Nine? And the Sangria Seven
“The Tapas Seven are “in meltdown” over the failure of Portuguese police to make any meaningful progress in the hunt for Madeleine”
“IT’S OUR D-DAY - McCanns return to Portugal - EXCLUSIVE Kate and Gerry set date in April for Algarve showdown They’ll tell cops: show your evidence or clear us for good”. Like that D-Day back on November?
“Despairing Kate and Gerry McCann are planning to return to Portugal for a face-to-face showdown with police who think they killed their daughter Madeleine”
They are going back. Now..?
Well, not exactly: “A close friend said the the couple were likely to go back after their ‘D-Day’ of April 11, when their three-month extension is up, and added: ‘They feel they’ve waited long enough with this cloud of suspicion hanging over them. They know their return would be very high-profile. They believe investigators do not have the evidence against them to bring charges, and their presence in Portugal would embarrass them. They’ve so far held off going back there, but they see it as their trump card”
They will go back once they have been allowed to see the police first on them
Says the paper’s source: “They see April 11 as their D-day. They have decided to give the police reasonable time to clear them, or at least open the case files so they can see the evidence against them”
That’s good of them…
FIONA Philips, of GMTV writes: “Have a heart”. Yes, that Fiona Philips
“Unbelievably, every time I write about the McCanns I get messages saying, ‘I used to like you, until you started supporting the McCanns.’ Nice, eh? So I hope you’re happy now that Kate and Gerry have blamed themselves for Madeleine’s disappearance”
Happy?
“In a list of ‘if onlys’, Gerry said: ‘I wish I’d stayed in the apartment that night.’ Now, I expect more bile on praising them for considering making a documentary on the case. Surely you can’t tell me that there’s a parent out there who wouldn’t do anything possible to find their missing child?”
SUNDAY PEOPLE: “’We pray she’ll be at party for twins’”
“Brave Kate McCann is planning a huge birthday party for her twins - and dreams missing Maddie will be there too. Kate, 39, has vowed to go ahead with the bash for Sean and Amelie even though she is still waiting for cops to quiz her again. Mother-in-law Eileen said: ‘The party’s on and it will be an even bigger one if wee Madeleine is back. All we can do is hope and pray.’ Sean and Amelie turn three on February”
Touching stuff. Gerry McCann is a “heart specialist”
MAIL ON SUNDAY: “Madeleine: No film will be made unless she’s found - alive or dead”
“Kate and Gerry McCann have been told that the proposed documentary about their daughter’s disappearance can go ahead only if she is found – alive or dead.
A source says: “It was awkward to raise but there would need to be an ending – either Madeleine being found alive or a body being discovered. If this wasn’t the case, and there was a major development after filming and editing, it could render the documentary redundant”
Or the parents or some other person or persons are charged, perhaps?
THE OBSERVER: “A good week for … a bad week for …”
“A bad week for …
“Tradition – A Lib Dem MP called Lynne Featherstone has made a bid for the limelight by reporting the monarchy to the Equality Commission because it goes in for primogeniture”
“Marcus Agius The chairman of Barclay’s was the target of £10,000 fraud”
“Good Taste - Or indeed any taste at all. A London based agency which supplies celebrity doubles has employed a small girl to rent out as Madeleine McCann. 20 per cent”
It was a “good weeks for… Washing up”
“THE Maddie story is already a soap opera, so why the moral panic over a movie? - Don’t get me wrong - nobody wants to see Maddie: The Musical. However, needs must if the McCanns want to continue trying to find out what happened to their daughter and they do, despite the devastating expense (their somewhat unproductive detective agency alone costs £50,000 a month) and the increasingly shabby odds.”
Maddie: The Musical, eh..?
THE SUNDAY INDEPENDENT: “Strange case of the detectives trying to trace Madeleine”
“After a week when commercials deals were more apparent than clues, we investigate the investigators”. Why not investigate the case?
“Just when the Madeleine McCann saga couldn’t get any more agonising, along came a raft of developments last week that began to achieve what you would hope would be impossible: turning a little missing girl into an industry – Madeleine Inc. Item: a London agency hawking around various small girls as Madeleine lookalikes. Item: US television bringing a team of psychics to bear on the disappearance as part of what they no doubt hoped would be a money-spinner of a show. Item: her parents, Gerry and Kate McCann, exploring the possibility of selling the book and film rights to the case”
Madeleine became a brand long ago. Brand McCann…
“Madeleine Inc bring benefits to some, but not, so far, to the girl herself or her distraught parents”
Or Madeleine Ink – see the press
THE SUNDAY TIMES: Ron Liddle writes:
“So, get yourself ready for Maddie – The Movie (PG, until you fancy nipping out for something to eat). Kate and Gerry McCann’s press spokesman, Clarence Mitchell, has confirmed that the couple met with representatives from the US entertainment company IMG before Christmas and that while nothing was agreed, the meeting had been ‘positive’. A day later Gerry McCann hastily backtracked and said no, no, they weren’t planning a movie. Who to believe? And which British actors will Hollywood cast as the parents if there is a film? Sacha Baron Cohen and Catherine Tate? Am I bovvered? Look at my face – is it bovvered? And maybe Matt Lucas as the shady-looking Robert Murat? Norman Wisdom as the Portuguese chief of police?”
Madeleine McCann: Fiction, faction and a single unbearable fact
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February 21st, 2008 at 11:25 am
Give these people a break they made a massive mistake leaving those kids alone but what a price they are paying. If there is any decency in the world would whoever took her please let us know if she is dead or alive. That poor child it breaks my heart every timeI see her little face. I think any parent would look high and low if there child went missing so get off the McCanns back.I wonder how you would feel if it was your son or daughter or someone you knew well.
January 16th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
1033 Willo
A theory I have supported for a while. Lets hope you are right.
January 14th, 2008 at 10:28 am
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jo Says:
January 14th, 2008 at 10:16 am
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Daisy Says:
January 14th, 2008 at 9:51 am
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Hola,Daisy
So many questions today…Have you seen how Madeleine would look like 8 months later?
As I said,”they” believe she is alive then? or is this pure speculation again?
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Hola Jo,
Lucky I saw your posting. Another thread has started and I was over there. I don’t think Maddie would look like that FBI pic. Doesn’t look anything like that to me. Children change, but not so much in 8 months. I find it difficult to believe that she might still be alive after so long. Going back to the other thread now.
January 14th, 2008 at 10:19 am
1033
willo Says:
January 14th, 2008 at 10:14 am
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I did think about Murat made arguido to suit the investigation…..this is too much for my small neurones
January 14th, 2008 at 10:16 am
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Daisy Says:
January 14th, 2008 at 9:51 am
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Hola,Daisy
So many questions today…Have you seen how Madeleine would look like 8 months later?
As I said,”they” believe she is alive then? or is this pure speculation again?
January 14th, 2008 at 10:14 am
I was thinking, Murat was crying poor a few months ago and by all accounts was financially struggling. This seems to have been sorted or at least it’s not been mentioned much. There has been a few statements from Murat regarding his Arguido status but other than that bugger all.
Imo I think the PJ are picking up Murats expenses in return for him keeping quiet and also using him as a sort of bait.
I think the PJ know exactly where Murat was both nights (2nd/3rd). These new accusations and sightings of him from the McCann camp are playing into the PJ’s hands, being obvious disinformation and helping in proving the PJ’s theories.
Remember Murat was the McCanns interpretor and he would know a lot of information that the PJ would rather keep in house.
Murat imo is working with the PJ and has been since the early days. He was made arguido just to flush out the McCanns. The “I’m broke” and “charge me or release me” statements have been just to keep up the appearance of Murat as a prime suspect.
If true, in Murat, a real Englishman has emerged at last, one who will take it on the chin, risk ruin, banishment and the slurring of his name, all to see justice done!
January 14th, 2008 at 9:51 am
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veritablequandary Says:
January 14th, 2008 at 4:23 am
here’s a revised list
I am still trying:
What do you think DuncanR (and other mods)?
Who is agw, really?
Will this be a big week?
What has happened to Garth?
Is Sledgehammer friends with Matt O?
Are Maria and Daisy alter-egos?
Will Tony continue to be censored?
Will Daisy finally shut up for good?
Will GS remember to wear bloomers?
Will Ian’s good behaviour continue?
Will Totje revive that rabbit?
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January 14th, 2008 at 9:19 am
Good morning all
I feel I have missed a lot over at the week end.
The way Madeleine may look like disturbs me.It means she might be alive?(I do wish though!!!) or is this a new spin?
January 14th, 2008 at 8:56 am
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Tony Bennett Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 11:52 pm
853 Mods and Admin
“Could you wait ’til he’s back online to discuss this, but I do know he added a footnote in explanation after editing your posts”.
REPLY: Yes, of course, I thought it must be this, he’s added a footnote and I’ve simply not seen it. I don’t think this has happened more than once or twice though?
I’m very happy to accept guidance if you’re concerned about the libel angle
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Mods and Admin,
May I make a suggestion regarding this issue of “footnotes” by M&A? If Admin or one of Mods places a footnote, there is no guarantee that the poster will see it, as it is “after the fact”, i.e. comment. Not everybody goes back over what they have posted and may miss such footnotes by M&A. My suggestion would be to, additionally to placing the footnote, to send a very short email to the poster. This way, the poster will be made aware of the comment/warning, etc.
January 14th, 2008 at 7:40 am
there = THEY ARE
GRrrr…..
January 14th, 2008 at 7:40 am
996 Miss Match Says: January 14th, 2008 at 1:24 am
Peter O - Oh me, oh my! I just realised what I said. If I am not careful, I am going to get a reputation as the forum trollop, (ludicrous, unhelpful and hurful), with my innocent, yet potentially suggestive comments. Goodness, naked cartwheels and back flips and now my throbbing comment. Edit….
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As a good lady friend of my Mother in Law once remarked…. Being considered a trollop at a certain age is indeed perhaps disadvantageous to ones ambitions . However, as one matures, having a reputation is certainly an advantage for ladies of a certain age. Men are far more interested in chasing ladies with alleged reputations and as one knows dear while men may be entertaining during the chase there are for the most part disappointing at the kill. Fearsome lady! Though a lot of fun around a dinner table.
January 14th, 2008 at 7:32 am
1013 veritablequandary Says: January 14th, 2008 at 4:13 am
1012 Wanderer Says:
Let’s hope your prediction is true, veritablequandary. Just doing boring things, when I finally sat down again another story sidetracked me.
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Weekends tend to be slow on Anorak. (Well at least the system doesn’t crash so much, but not sure the benefit outweighs the cost.) A reflection perhaps of what Peter Mac says about not paying cops overtime. Edit….
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Posting on your own time I suspect is not as much fun as posting on your employers time. That and weekend responsibilities.
January 14th, 2008 at 7:08 am
That is for you to ponder and for me to know, gone fishing.
January 14th, 2008 at 6:58 am
Wanderer
Excellent post in Forums re Katie Trebling Story.
http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/topic.php?id=944&replies=1
Some interesting moral/ethical/philosophical issues here other posters may perhaps want to address?
Thanks for posting.
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P.S. Your piece has been ‘promoted’ to front-page of Anorak (See Twittering Section)
January 14th, 2008 at 5:35 am
Another point is, and probably has been brought up before…why kidnap a child with an eye so easily recognizable. I do believe the McCanns were told not to be so public but they would not listen….Suspicious that. One would have thought the twins would have been more kidnappable. Why did not Maddie yell out if she was a hyper child. Given sedatives that is why. The face on the milk carton helped a lot in one country and people were for it. The parent of the lad suffered and everyone felt for them. It could be felt in the soul what they were going through.
January 14th, 2008 at 5:04 am
Once again, the McCann logic fails me.
Just saw an article in today’s Daily Express in which the McCann’s tell the PJ to “put up or shut up”:
“Either charge them or clear them so that no more time is lost in getting back to looking for a little girl missing for more than eight months.”
The McCann’s currently have the PJ, Metodo3 and Hogan International all “on the case” in one way or another; not to mention the world-wide audience subjected to their relentless media campaign. Their arguido status does not seem to have hindered the search in any significant way. On the other hand, Gerry’s famous “marketing ploy”, may, by his own admission, have put the little girl’s eye, not to mention her life, in jeopardy.
This outburst is particularly ironic, given that, as reported, neither the McCann’s nor their friends went out to search for the little girl on the night she disappeared or during the days that followed. This fact alone I find quite staggering. She may well have wandered out of the apartment in search of her parents, become disoriented, lost, knocked down by a car even. (They themselves told us via the media that she had a tendency to get up in the night - gold stars and all that).
Please, please, someone, put these people out of our misery.
January 14th, 2008 at 4:53 am
1019
I don’t know, I can understand having a fund and wanting people to recognize her.
I disagree about sharing the eye information, some uses of the fund, and the turn on the PJ when even one of their friends admitted it was natural for an investigation to look at the people who actually there first. Saying that, yes, I do believe this advertising has gone too far and may have ended up hurting the McCanns children more.
January 14th, 2008 at 4:49 am
These two people continue to amaze. Just when you think they could not behave more strangely, they outdo themselves again. The online shop (get your wristbands before they’re out of stock) was unbelievably tacky to say the least, and twisted, to be honest…but The Maddie Movie just defies belief. Whatever exactly they are guilty of regarding their child we may never know, but there is no doubt they are guilty of gross opportunism and exploitation…and, I strongly suspect, similar finance conduct.. IMHO, of course!!!
January 14th, 2008 at 4:32 am
1019 lyn
It is truly hard to imagine.
January 14th, 2008 at 4:29 am
The film company is standing firm, Maddie or …worst scenario. Puts the brakes on the money making McCanns. One country put the face of the missing lad on groceries to alert people.
How can they, what sort of people are they, to make cash out of a missing child. They come across as awful people. I do wonder whether they are ma and pa paedos. Souless people they are!
One day the truth will out. Might take time…until one or more talk.
January 14th, 2008 at 4:28 am
Will noseycow change her name?
January 14th, 2008 at 4:27 am
What do your think DuncanR (and other mods)?
Wouldn’t dream of knowing without some kind of offering first…hopefully not a lemon that can be used against me at a later date.
Who is agw, really?
No idea, do we need to know who’s behind the curtains?
Will this be a big week?
Every week there is a new spin…so in that respect, yeah.
What has happened to Garth?
He is relaxing someplace gorgeous and during the odd moment he sees road kill or something else “not so nice”, he remembers us.
Is Sledgehammer friends with Matt O?
Don’t really know either of them, but if people around the world could hold hands…nah, never mind.
Are Maria and Daisy alter-egos?
I don’t think so. Maria seemed a bit more calm to me. In any case, varied opinions makes for a more desirable conversation, right?
Will Tony continue to be censored?
I don’t think he is really censored in a terrible way, one of the things he was censored on wasn’t even his own creation.
Will Daisy finally shut up for good?
Not as long as there is white space at Anorak, don’t think anyone else will either (no disturbing page makeovers soon, please)
Will GS remember to wear bloomers?
Never.
Will Ian’s good behaviour continue?
Yes, it is very nice to see as well.
Will Totje revive that rabbit?
I wasn’t aware of a rabbit, are they a contributor here?
(Sorry, couldn’t help myself…)
January 14th, 2008 at 4:23 am
here’s a revised list
I am still trying:
What do you think DuncanR (and other mods)?
Who is agw, really?
Will this be a big week?
What has happened to Garth?
Is Sledgehammer friends with Matt O?
Are Maria and Daisy alter-egos?
Will Tony continue to be censored?
Will Daisy finally shut up for good?
Will GS remember to wear bloomers?
Will Ian’s good behaviour continue?
Will Totje revive that rabbit?
January 14th, 2008 at 4:20 am
1013
Veritablequandary, I’m afraid I don’t have a clue about any of that? No idea what the Jan. 14th thing even came from and I think nights in general (well, when it is this late into the night in the UK- 4am), are slow. Which is a good thing and a bad thing I suppose, I imagine some people outside of the UK and Europe feel they are missing out a bit (there are some interesting personalities around- my opinion).
But I doubt an active story like this is ever alone, here at Anorak, as there are lovely lurkers (I imagine).
January 14th, 2008 at 4:20 am
here’s a revised list
What do your think DuncanR (and other mods)?
Who is agw, really?
Will this be a big week?
What has happened to Garth?
Is Sledgehammer friends with Matt O?
Are Maria and Daisy alter-egos?
Will Tony continue to be censored?
Will Daisy finally shut up for good?
Will GS remember to wear bloomers?
January 14th, 2008 at 4:13 am
1012 Wanderer Says:
Let’s hope your prediction is true, veritablequandary. Just doing boring things, when I finally sat down again another story sidetracked me.
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Weekends tend to be slow on Anorak. (Well at least the system doesn’t crash so much, but not sure the benefit outweighs the cost.) A reflection perhaps of what Peter Mac says about not paying cops overtime. That’s the only basis of my prediction, plus the holidays are behind us. And wasn’t something going to happen on 14 Jan?
January 14th, 2008 at 4:06 am
1007
Let’s hope your prediction is true, veritablequandary. Just doing boring things, when I finally sat down again another story sidetracked me.
January 14th, 2008 at 4:05 am
What do your think DuncanR?
Will this be a big week?
what has happened to Garth?
Is Sledgehammer friends with Matt O?
Are Maria and Daisy alter-egoes?
January 14th, 2008 at 3:58 am
1008 DuncanR Says:
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Nope - looks like they’ve all b*ggered off to bed and left you on your own
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Just when I was primed to be outrageous, there you are mod!
January 14th, 2008 at 3:53 am
752 Christine
http://elmerqgooseburger.blogspot.com/2007/08/kate-mccann-on-womans-hour.html
January 14th, 2008 at 3:52 am
1006 - veritablequandary
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Nope - looks like they’ve all b*ggered off to bed and left you on your own