Madeleine McCann: Kate McCann’s Message And McCann Posters For Mari Cortes Luz
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
DAILY EXPRESS: “I feel your pain – Kate’s note to kidnap parents”
Kate McCann has delivered a “heartfelt message of support” to the parents of missing girl Mari Luz Cortes
Writes Kate, a “GP”: “I feel your pain, as parents we know what you’re going through…I am praying that Mari Luz is found quickly, safe and well”
Not that it’s all about the McCanns, a Maddy 2. Although: Says Juan Jose Cortes, Mari’s father: “Only now I understand what Madeleine McCann’s parents are suffering”
Neither Mr Cortes nor his wife are named suspects in their child’s disappearance
The McCanns have offered to equip posters of Madeleine with a shot of Mari – 12,000 of them are to be put up in Spain, the Balearic and Canary Islands
Mr Cortes says thank you but “We don’t feels strong enough to make a decision”
Says Clarence Mitchell, the McCanns’ spokesman: “The posters could lead to vital clues in both cases. Mari Luz’s face would sit along Madeleine’s… We just want to help”
Help who?
DAILY STAR: “’I KNOW THE PAIN YOU ARE FEELING’”
“Madeleine McCann’s mum has told the parents of a child feared snatched by the same abductor: ‘I feel your pain.’ GP Kate, 39, sent her words of comfort to the parents of five-year-old Mari Luz Cortes when the McCanns’ private detectives met them to investigate links between the two cases”
How did the papers come to know of this message, and how can knowing help either child?
“POLICE reject claims of link” – Portuguese police do not “believe” there is a link between Mari and Madeleine
Kate McCann is a “GP”
DAILY MAIL: “McCanns comfort lost girl’s parents”
Kate McCann has sent an “emotional message” to the parents of Mari Luz Cortes
THE McCanns will have to wait until September this year to discover why they were made suspects
THE MIRROR: “KATE’S PRAYER OF HOPE”
“I FEEL YOUR PAIN – Kate’s message to parents of missing Spanish girl Mari”
Reports are that police are seeking a “local sex pest” in Huelva
“70,000..the number of kids under 16 that go missing in the UK every year. Only 10 per cent vanish for more than five days”
Any more room on those posters? How are they remembered?
DAILY TELEGRAPH: “McCanns tell lost girl’s parents: We feel for you”
Says a friend of Mari’s parents, Irene a
nd Juan Jose Cortes: “They have been touched by the fact someone who is going through her own turmoil can find the strength to think of their moment of need”
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January 18th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
jo
when will we feast on the truth?!!!!
January 18th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
1024
brandon flours Says:
January 18th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
“[...] the pj like the details
they like the mistakes”
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Very good, Brandon. Rub it in, rub it in …
Details
Mistakes
Changes
Good night
PS: are you interested in ex nr. 7?
January 18th, 2008 at 11:51 pm
chatelaine
or whatevers to hand Im nearly divorced
January 18th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
1020
] and good night
Sledgehammer Says:
January 18th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
“Châtelaine, sweetheart it’s the internet not Mastermind.”
****
Yes, “darling” and internet is no excuse for not spelling correctly anymore…
Rose petals 2u2 [
January 18th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
peter o
we must do a post school coffee gossip
January 18th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
1024
brandon flours Says:
January 18th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
sledgehammer
the pj like the details
they like the mistakes
**************
A delicacy…with a pinch of patience
January 18th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
sledgehammer
the pj like the details
they like the mistakes
January 18th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
OK People.. Bed calls… Sweet dreams one and all.
Brandon.. see you on the “other side” when your PC has been re-built!
January 18th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
Having completed the last bout of microbial genocide for the day, I must get some sleep.
Goodnight all…
January 18th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
1017
brandon flours Says:
January 18th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
“sledgehammer
dont go you make everything sound so
naughty”
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Brandon! Tongue in cheek?
January 18th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
Châtelaine, sweetheart it’s the internet not Mastermind.
January 18th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
1012
Ade,
Lost the discussion so up to the “labelling” people?
Sleep well, and don’t dream of the twins!
January 18th, 2008 at 11:42 pm
1011
Sledgehammer Says:
January 18th, 2008 at 11:38 pm
Good night my dear chums, fragrant dreams to all you to Ade, watch that plectrum!
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Too with 2 O’s maybe? and a comma in between? Details …
I know, it’s getting late …
January 18th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
sledgehammer
dont go you make everything sound so
naughty
January 18th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
1005 Châtelaine,
Yes, realized it afterwards. Slaap lekker. [sleep well for the non-dutchies]
January 18th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
1014
Totje
No :shock;
Gotta go
January 18th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
1003
can’t say no,
Did you copy that from the Mirror Forum????
January 18th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
1011 Sledgehammer
don’t use a plectrum
i’m a musician
January 18th, 2008 at 11:38 pm
1008 Totje
dream on and on and on in mcconland
do i give a shit what you think or say?
such fun
January 18th, 2008 at 11:38 pm
Good night my dear chums, fragrant dreams to all you to Ade, watch that plectrum!
January 18th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
I watched forensic files tonight
must be a new series
either way from what advances have been made the mc canns are fucked!!!!!!!!!
no wonder the pj are so confident
January 18th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
1003
can’t say no Says:
January 18th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
***************
Joder!!!
January 18th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
986 Ade Says:
January 18th, 2008 at 11:23 pm
971 Totje Says:
excellent fun
they are all in it up to their armpits and they will all be publically destroyed
i think this is wonderful sport and excellent fun
i want to really enjoy their suffering
it will certainly be some excellent fun and games for me
brilliant sport
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Ade, I would appreciate it if you didn’t copy the “Says” part of the post number.
I didn’t say that. These are your words.
You’d better take some sleep and less drinks may be?
Don’t you realize you’re saying even the twinsare all in it up to their armpits?
Into what?
January 18th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
#
997
Sledgehammer Says:
January 18th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
Peter O, I am perfectly well balanced, with a chip on both shoulders.
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………….A chip on both shoulders and nothing in between!
January 18th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
997 Sledgehammer Says: January 18th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
Peter O, I am perfectly well balanced, with a chip on both shoulders.
++++++++++++++++
I should ask your therapist for a refund. Unless of course your therapist is your local bar person, in which case you should try spending less for a while.
January 18th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
996
Totje Says:
January 18th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
“980 Châtelaine,
Did I????????”
*****
You posted before my post was on. Forget. En welterusten
January 18th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
Stevo, hows the fake photo coming along, triangulation never was your strong point, even when you were dog fighting with the Red Baron.
January 18th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
What happened to inciting racial hatred and offensive ’sardine munching’ ?
For the Record
Daily Mirror Edited By Fiona Parker 18/01/2008
Further to our article of October 29 “Oh, up yours, Senor” by Tony Parsons, we are happy to make clear that whilst the contrary impression was given by the comments of the Portuguese Ambassador to the Times on October 27 we can confirm that the Ambassador Antonio Santana Carlos did not, and has not, said that the Madeleine McCann case has seriously damaged relations between Portugal and this country.
The Daily Mirror tries to correct errors and clear up confusion as soon as possible. Readers should phone 020 7293 3953, fax 020 7293 3975, email readers@mirror.co.uk or write to Readers’ Editor, Daily Mirror, 1 Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London E14 5AP. The Press Complaints Commission (PCC) is the independent body which governs the newspaper industry. It has a Code of Practice we adhere to. This, along with details on how to complain, is available from Halton House, 20/23 High Holborn, London EC1N 2JD. Website http://www.pcc.org.uk or email complaints@pcc.org.uk Telephone: 020 7831 0022 Helpline: 0845 600 2757.
Times OnLine: Big rise in press complaints
January 16, 2008
Complaints to the Press Complaints Commission, the press watchdog, reached a high last year. The 4,340 complaints were a third up on 2006. A Daily Mirror column about Portuguese police and Madeleine McCann attracted the most complaints — 485.
Independent: Press complaints soar to hit record high in 2007
January 16, 2008
The second case involved a Daily Mirror column by Tony Parsons, headlined “Oh, up yours, senor”, regarding the Portuguese police investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. One of the complainants was the Portuguese ambassador to Britain, who had been urged by Parsons in his article to “keep your stupid, sardine-munching mouth shut”.
The column attracted 485 complaints and is set to be resolved, the PCC said.
Why are Tony Parsons and the Daily Mirror being allowed to get away with this obvious manipulation of the public opinion and at the same time publishing racist material against a nation?
The PCC code of conduct goes onto state that:
1 Accuracy
i) The Press must take care not to publish inaccurate, misleading or distorted information, including pictures.
ii) A significant inaccuracy, misleading statement or distortion once recognised must be corrected, promptly and with due prominence, and - where appropriate - an apology published.
iii) The Press, whilst free to be partisan, must distinguish clearly between comment, conjecture and fact.
iv) A publication must report fairly and accurately the outcome of an action for defamation to which it has been a party, unless an agreed settlement states otherwise, or an agreed statement is published.
12 Discrimination
i) The press must avoid prejudicial or pejorative reference to an individual’s race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation or to any physical or mental illness or disability.
Tony Parsons Xenophobic attacks and attempts to manipulate the public:
The worst attack, which is not on-line anymore, NO apology was published:
29/10/2007
“OH, UP YOURS, SENOR
Portugal’s ambassador to Britain, Senor Antonio Santana Carlos, says that the Madeleine McCann case has seriously damaged relations between the two countries. Well, whose fault is that?
It is the fault of the spectacularly stupid, cruel Portuguese police. I have never much cared for the convention of calling cops “pigs” or “filth”, but I am happy to make an exception.
They have tried to cover their humiliation at coming nowhere close to finding that stolen child by fitting up her parents.
The decline in relations is also the fault of the appalling Portuguese media, happy to print any piece of poisonous trash spoon-fed to them by “police sources” treating the abduction of a small child as light entertainment.
And the Portuguese public must also take their share of the blame. The sight of locals jeering at Kate McCann as she went in for questioning made me feel as though these leering bumpkins were not from another country, but another planet.
And the good ambassador can also be blamed for the decline in relations.
When he should be exercising a little diplomacy, he huffs and he puffs about the McCanns’ tragic decision to leave their children sleeping alone on the night Madeleine was stolen.
“In Portugal we have the concept of a nuclear family,” sniffs Senor Carlos. “That the families all live together.”
They made a mistake, ambassador. Their lives have been wrecked. That is punishment enough, without your asinine, unwanted comments.
And I would respectfully suggest that in future, if you can’t say something constructive about the disappearance of little Madeleine, then you just keep your stupid, sardine-munching mouth shut.”
24/12/2007
“She has been let down by the criminally incompetent Portuguese police force.”
“And by the poisonous hacks of the lurid Portuguese press.”
“In the absence of a body, and despite all the madcap theories of the Portuguese police, hope somehow remains that Madeleine McCann may yet be restored to the family that is torn to bits without her.”
05/11/2007
“The Policia Judiciaria of Portugal has been nothing but an obstruction from the very start.”
“They failed to close their borders for 24 hours. They sprinkled their cigarette ash on the carpet of the McCanns’ hotel room. They have fed all manner of trash and lies to their tame press. And they have treated Madeleine’s devastated parents as the major suspects.”
“What is certain is that losing the blundering efforts of the Policia Judiciaria of Portugal will be no great loss. They have done more harm than good.”
01/10/2007
“British newspapers come in for plenty of stick but they are paragons of virtue compared to the toxic hacks of the Portuguese press.
For some time Kate and Gerry McCann have been victims of a sustained smear campaign.
No doubt the poison comes from the Portuguese police but it would be impossible to find an outlet without the tame hacks of the Portuguese press.”
“Their slurs concern a real little girl and real parents devastated by their loss. The Portuguese cops have proved incapable of discovering what happened to Madeleine. With their crackpot allegations and lies, they and their pet journalists rub salt into wounds that must already be unbearable.
Are the Portuguese press so beholden to the police?
As the mouthpiece for those Keystone cretins, the journalists of Portugal plumb depths that make even the most hardened British hack gasp.
Portuguese newspapers print a river of trash about the McCanns and present it as the truth.
When they could help to find out what really happened to that little girl, they just act like propagandists in a Third World dictatorship, obliged to print whatever rubbish they are told to print. They should hang their heads in shame.”
24/09/2007
“The way the stupid, thuggish Portuguese police have treated the McCanns has been a disgrace. But all the evidence suggests that if they had been Portuguese, it would have been far worse.”
17/09/2007
“That little girl is out there somewhere, either dead or alive, but all of the energy of those Keystone cretins, the Portuguese police, are being poured into attributing guilt to Kate and Gerry McCann.”
“I do not much care what the Portuguese spoon-feed their tame hacks in the local rags - that man and woman are innocent, and it is an obscenity that the world is playing Cluedo with their lives and the fate of their little girl.”
“But chuck enough dirt and it will stick. The Portuguese cops seem stupendously stupid - but they are smart enough to understand that.
It is right that the McCanns should be potential suspects. But it should all have been done months ago - not when the Portuguese cops have become a sick joke because of their blundering incompetence.”
“As the months have dragged on, they must have felt like lumbering yokels, despised by their north European neighbours. They are not the type who would enjoy that feeling.
Chief Inspector Goncalo Amaral, the fat, sweaty cop who is co-leader of the investigation into Madeleine’s disappearance, faces investigation himself for the torture of Leonor Cipriano, the mother of an eight-year-old girl who disappeared in the Algarve in 2004.
Official mug shots show the mother with her eyes battered so badly that she is unable to open them. She allegedly confessed to the crime and is now serving a 16-year-jail sentence. ”
“The Portuguese plods are not desperate to solve this crime - such a task was way beyond them.”
30/07/2007
“They do not need some idiot to remind them that they left their daughter alone while they had dinner. There will not be one day in their lives when they will not bitterly regret it.”
09/07/2007
“THE parents of Madeleine McCann have apologised after complaints that an advertisement about their daughter’s abduction was shown in cinemas before Shrek The Third.The McCanns have nothing to apologise for”
04/06/2007
“It’s unbearable to watch these brave, decent parents coming to terms with the possibility that their daughter may be dead. They made one mistake and they will be punished for the rest of their lives.”
28/05/2007
“IN their televised interview, the McCanns said that their guilt over losing Madeleine would stay with them for the rest of their lives.
They also said that it never crossed their minds that their sleeping children were in danger while they dined in a nearby tapas bar.
As we will no doubt debate for many years to come, not all parents would have let their children sleep alone while they were in a restaurant, no matter how close.
But every parent should have nothing but sympathy for Gerry and Kate McCann because we all know that any child can vanish in an instant.
If we think we are immune from the fate of the McCann family because we would not have been in that tapas bar, then we kid ourselves.”
‘None of us has the right to criticise the McCanns.. They have suffered enough.’
My opinion: Tony Parsons should be dismissed forthwith.
You can write an email to tony.parsons@mirror.co.uk or make a complain to the tabloid Daily Mirror Editor: you can call Steve Purcell, Website Editor at +44 (0) 207 293 3570 or email him steve.purcell@mirror.co.uk or make a formal complain to the P.C.C. (Press Complaints Commission).
January 18th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
983 Sledgehammer
Ade, I reckon your a six fingered banjo basher, duellin banjos style.
and you are a completly illiterate arsehole
your “your” was probably meant to be “you’re” as in “you are” shortened with the apostrophe
but you radiologists don’t get much of an educashun do you…
and my banjo is a five string trad model
and my banjo uke has the usual 4 strings
you really are a tosser gerry
and with your pinchy face and whiney gloossssgooo voice just forget it
such fun
mccoon baiting
January 18th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
991
Sledgehammer Says:
January 18th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
“Châtelaine, you have such a pretty name you are to classy to insult, rose petal dreams my lovely.”
******
I like the part about the rose petals.
BUT I’LL BE WATCHING YOU. [No really screaming, but talking out loud].
Last time: good night everybody.
and some rose petals for you too; ask Sledge