Madeleine McCann: Oprah Winfrey, Barbara Walters And Rape
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
DAILY EXPRESS: “MADELEINE: £1M WAR FOR MCCANN INTERVIEW”
“AMERICA’S top chat show hosts are locked in a bidding war for an exclusive interview with the parents of Madeleine McCann. Oprah Winfrey and Barbara Walters have each pledged £1million in an attempt to get them in front of the TV cameras, it emerged yesterday”
Winfrey and Walters - the Pope and Queen Mother of Ameican TV chatter…
Do those shows take advertising? They do. What will the ad-breaks induce viewers to buy? What is the point of the interview? The McCanns cannot discuss the case.
Says the McCanns’ spokesman Clarence Mitchell: “We are not in the market for selling Kate and Gerry’s story to the highest bidder. And we are not impressed by big names. We talk to media from all over the world”
But money is important. The fighting fun is running low
DAILY MAIL: “Kate and Gerry McCann in £1million deal to tell all to Oprah Winfrey”
“Kate and Gerry McCann are at the centre of a bidding war between Oprah Winfrey and Barbara Walters.
“Both celebrities are desperate to land an exclusive deal for the couple to talk about their missing daughter. If it goes ahead, it will be the largest publicly-known amount ever paid for a broadcast interview”
Says Clarence Mitchell: “We have been approached by representatives for both Oprah and Barbara,” he added. “They want an exclusive interview with Kate and Gerry. We are discussing it but it doesn’t mean we are definitely doing it. Nothing has been agreed”
Why wouldn’t they do it?
PRESS ASSOCIATION: “US chat shows approach McCanns”
“Kate and Gerry McCann have been approached to appear on the Oprah Winfrey show and for an interview with American network ABC, their spokesman has confirmed.
It was reported that the McCanns were at the centre of a bidding war worth £1 million between Winfrey and ABC star Barbara Walters who both want an exclusive interview with the couple.
THE SUN: “Maddie sketch farmer raped girl”
“The gun-toting pig farmer quizzed in the Maddie McCann hunt was once jailed for raping a British teenager — in Praia da Luz. Joaquim Jose Marques, 31, who bears a resemblance to the sketch of a mystery suspect, served five years. Portuguese cops who grilled him twice at his ramshackle farmhouse nearby are now convinced he is NOT the man in the drawing”
NOT the man. So why is he in the papers?
“But we can reveal Marques and a pal carried out a brutal attack on two British girls, aged 17 and 18, after prowling the beach in July 1995 at the resort where Maddie vanished”
A heinous crime for which he was punished. But what has it to do with Madeleine McCann?
DAILY STAR: “MADDIE WEIRDO RAPED TEEN BRIT”
“The gun-toting Portuguese pig farmer quizzed over Madeleine McCann’s disappearance raped a British teenager yards from where the four-year-old vanished. Joaquim Jose Marques put his 18-year-old victim through a horrific late-night sex ordeal while an accomplice targeted her pal”
Eighteen..
“Now locals fear he is the same man pictured on a ‘wanted’ poster issued by the McCanns as they step up the hunt for their daughter”
Local residents, or local reporters? And is “fear” really “hope”?
DAILY MIRROR: “Madeleine McCann suspect spotted ’spying on little boys’”
“Five women holidaymakers - three British and two German - have seen the “strange and disturbed” man in Altura, close to the Portuguese-Spanish border, in the past two weeks. One of the British witnesses noticed him on the beach on January 21 bending down to talk to the boys, aged about four or five.
“Clearly worried, one of the youngsters started shaking his head mid-conversation. Then a woman ran out of a nearby villa, shouting in alarm. She scooped the children up and hurried them away.”
Adults. children. Run, children, run!
DAILY TELEGRAPH (Aus): “Oprah’s $2m bid for Maddie chat”
“Mr Mitchell said the McCanns would only agree to a deal which would widen the search for their daughter. The couple, both doctors, also want to campaign for a better Europe-wide alert system for missing children, based on an American model”
A campaign
Madeleine McCann: A media event
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January 26th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
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chenier Says:
‘I think that Clarrie would like it to be believed that he has this sort of power.
I don’t think he has anything like the clout attributed to him, but he has everything to gain and nothing to lose by people believing that he does.’
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My perception is that what control he did have seems to be wobbling with story manipulation being used against him and his clients. But if you can’t take it…..
That story about Ophra etc had CM quotes that were as old as the story - when they seemed to be riding a high -and inapropriate in the current context post film reaction. I’m not trying to sound cryptic just can’t be bothered to infill.
Then we have the ‘police’ siting story
Then we have the second documentary. It seems to me that the press and police are playing games of their own.
All my perception of information fed to us of course!
January 26th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
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Irene Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
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Not charged yet but very much and formally suspected to be……..
Soon the PJ is going to strike….and hard….
January 26th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
580
jo
yep ,i also think she’s a writer
And a very sharp person
January 26th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
575
jo Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
570
chenier Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
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Murat has made himself as small as pos :he says nothing,saw nothing,doesnt want to know anything
Has he got something to hide?
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How can we possibly tell?
He would be an extremely unusual human being if he had nothing to hide; as I tried to point out to Cheryl earlier, it is only in a dictatorship that people are treated in the way she seems to imagine is right.
Stalin, Hitler and Pol Pot would have been thrilled at the idea that only someone guilty of a heinous crime would refuse to account for their whereabouts at all times, though even they confined it to demanding that people should account to the state.
Clarrie appears to believe that people should account to Team Mccann…
January 26th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
577
jo
Sometimes i forget
January 26th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
576
can’t say no Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
575
jo
Don’t ya luv Chernier posts ?
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They are the best and I asked her/him if she/he was a writer.
Yes I do luv Chenier posts ….I realize how bad is my english
January 26th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
What has to be realised of course, is that G.M. is a member of a panel of medical advisors to the Government.
Though, as yet, he has not been charged in connection with his daughters disappearance, it could be, that all the stops are being pulled to make sure this hopefully does not happen.
That could prove embarrasing.
That could be why suggestions of Government involvement have been made.
If the P.J. eventually prove their theory it should be very interesting how people like C.M. are going to grovel.
January 26th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
577
jo
January 26th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
572
can’t say no Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
That’s why we can’t put foreign links …
I think Duncan (?) knows what he/she is doing
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I will never put foreign links anymore.
Honestly I did without realising it could be “dangerous”.
Yes.I am sure too Duncan knows what he is doing and I am not personally prepared to jeopardise his/her good job
January 26th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
575
jo
Don’t ya luv Chernier posts ?
January 26th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
570
chenier Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
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Murat has made himself as small as pos :he says nothing,saw nothing,doesnt want to know anything
Has he got something to hide?
January 26th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
i mean you
January 26th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
571
chenier
We are a wize person
Not like me
January 26th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
567
jo
I think not
That’s why we can’t put foreign links …
I think Duncan (?) knows what he/she is doing
January 26th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
562
Annie_m Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
561
clouseau
Classic line…
“many of those who contributed to the forums are being held in secure mental institutions, while others are revealed to be social misfits and cranks.”
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They didn’t even include me…
January 26th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
566
jo Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
564
chenier Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
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Do you think they xould close Anorak?????
May be in compensation we would all receive a CuddlePig?
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I believe that the usual phrase is ‘over my dead body’, but in this case it would be over Anorak’s dead body, and one can’t really volunteer someone else…
I think that Clarrie would like it to be believed that he has this sort of power.
I don’t think he has anything like the clout attributed to him, but he has everything to gain and nothing to lose by people believing that he does.
I also think that it’s perfectly possible to point out the many flaws in the claims made by Team McCann without being libellous, and I’m really happy that the massed ranks of Anorak enable us to do so.
It seems unbalanced not to mention the third arguido, but the simple truth is that the third arguido hasn’t made any claims to pick holes in. Robert Murat simply says he had nothing to do with it.
As Petermac pointed out earlier on, it’s very hard to deal with people who simply keep their mouths shut…
January 26th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
561
clouseau
I was almightily annoyed - and then I read the secure mental institutions bit! Thanks for the laugh!
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Fear nothing, regret less.
January 26th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Chenier
Well it’s going to have something to do with money because that’s what it’s all about. Not to mention bullying tactics - so much for freedom of speech. We are effectively spoiling their game and they don’t like it one bit.
I hope you get yourself out of that hospital tomorrow Chenier and joinin with the wine drinkers!
January 26th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
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jo Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
(I havent a clue how all this works)
Mods & Admin,thank you for your answer.
Now I have a burning question: would it be possible that Clarrie takes action against Anorak????
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Mods and Admin
Clarrie probably hates us, we’ll survive, besides we are just a sweet little site…….
January 26th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
564
chenier Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
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Do you think they xould close Anorak?????
May be in compensation we would all receive a CuddlePig?
January 26th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Damn.
I so wish that were true…
January 26th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
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clouseau Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
bring it on clarrie
MCCANN SPOKESMAN ‘SATISFIED’ BY FORUM CLOSURE
Saturday January 26th 2008
by Justine McGuinness
The Daily Mirror’s decision to close a forum on the newspaper’s website where users discussed the Madeleine McCann case was today welcomed by the spokesman for the missing toddler’s parents.
In a wide-ranging interview to be published in tomorrow’s Sunday Times, the former BBC journalist Clarence Mitchell said he was ’satisfied that representations made by us and others to the Mirror hierarchy were acted on and this disgraceful forum closed.’
Several moderators on the Mirror forums have been sacked in the wake of the decision to close the forum amid claims that IP addresses have been passed to the Metodo 3 agency in Spain - a claim which is hotly denied by board administrators.
However, in the course of his interview with this newspaper, Mitchell claims that he is actively seeking to ‘track down, charge and make amenable each and every one of those who libelled, not only myself, but Kate and Gerry and their friends. Of that you can be certain.’
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Poor Clarrie.
What little chance there was of persuading the world that the Mirror Forum was closed down by the Government has gone.
And whilst it’s good to note the denials, it would look distinctly unfortunate if Metodo 3 operatives, clutching their cuddlecats, were seen advancing on people whose details appear to have been provided in advance of any proper legal authorisation.
Has the Mirror provided any information about the sacking of the moderators?
January 26th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
Not in Chile!!!! Oleee…I told you she is in PlanetmcCfools…..
January 26th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
561
clouseau
Classic line…
“many of those who contributed to the forums are being held in secure mental institutions, while others are revealed to be social misfits and cranks.”
January 26th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
560
dam
lol
January 26th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
557
clouseau
It’s a wind up @ 3Ags
http://tinyurl.com/yuc8o8
January 26th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
530
man on a hill Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
“Wouldn’t it help if they just went back and answered the bloody questions?”
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I think that it would be an enormous help, if they wouldn’t say [or commission to say] that “they had nothing to do with the disappearance of their lovely daughter” [which seems IMO like telling without lying] but straight forward:
* We left her alone [and unforgivable to do that]
* She didn’t have an accident
* We didn’t kill her
* We didn’t hide her body
* We didn’t destroy her body
* We didn’t cover up anything
and … we’ll tell you everything we know …
IMO and allegedly
January 26th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
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Christine Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
So it was Clarrie who got the Mirror forum closed down! Don’t know why it is damaging to the British Government though:
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Neither do I; I think they are rather overegging the cake.
It would be nice to think that posting on the Mirror forum would shake the towers of the mighty, but it’s a bit delusional.
But it certainly suits Clarrie to make people believe that he does have the sort of power attributed to him; if I were really cynical I would wonder who he is bunging to say it…
January 26th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
bring it on clarrie
MCCANN SPOKESMAN ‘SATISFIED’ BY FORUM CLOSURE
Saturday January 26th 2008
by Justine McGuinness
The Daily Mirror’s decision to close a forum on the newspaper’s website where users discussed the Madeleine McCann case was today welcomed by the spokesman for the missing toddler’s parents.
In a wide-ranging interview to be published in tomorrow’s Sunday Times, the former BBC journalist Clarence Mitchell said he was ’satisfied that representations made by us and others to the Mirror hierarchy were acted on and this disgraceful forum closed.’
Several moderators on the Mirror forums have been sacked in the wake of the decision to close the forum amid claims that IP addresses have been passed to the Metodo 3 agency in Spain - a claim which is hotly denied by board administrators.
However, in the course of his interview with this newspaper, Mitchell claims that he is actively seeking to ‘track down, charge and make amenable each and every one of those who libelled, not only myself, but Kate and Gerry and their friends. Of that you can be certain.’
January 26th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
The Police in Chile have just ruled out this sighting. The man and his daughter are to held a press conference soon.