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
Posted: 26th, January 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann Comments (730) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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January 26th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
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dcb
January 26th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/LSEPublicLecturesAndEvents/events/2008/20071212t1400z001.htm
January 26th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
http://notw.typepad.com/saturday_notw/2008/01/latest-4.html
January 26th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
http://www.coventry.ac.uk/latestnewsandevents/a/3901
January 26th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
608…jo
See 607.
January 26th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
matt - naughty
January 26th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
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Peter O Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
OK… So why the current non-news story about Oprah and Walters?
What “news” are they trying to hide this weekend? Are they just using it to end discussions about the George Harrison Pig Farmer debacle?
Would they be allowed to go to America to do one of these interviews anyway?
If they were allowed to go to America… What would happen if they tried to stay there? Could they be invited to leave? What would happen if the Portuguese decided to “invite” them back whilst they were in America? Could they, the McCann’s, fight such an “invite” via the American courts?
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REPLY: With the proper paperwork and legal reasons as to why the US would probably return them back or rather ask them to return. However, their fighting going back would most likely not involve our Court system. I do wonder though since they are ’suspects’ in another country if we would permit them to enter under those circumstances. Well, I’m quite certain with their high priced lawyers they’d find out this country’s laws on that even before trying to come here for interviews, etc.
January 26th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
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Matt. Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
602…jo
Was “sacked” in September.
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I wasnt in europe
Why was she sacked? (like me actually!!
January 26th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
605…noseycow
Yes….Dr G P didn’t like it when he heard of the amount she was taking
out of his Personal Fund.
January 26th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
http://uk.reuters.com/article/UKNews1/idUKL0637885520070907
And then….the spin started or was it even before the sad event?
January 26th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
matt wasn’t there some scandel about her expenses claims???
January 26th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
602…jo
Was “sacked” in September.
January 26th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
601…chenier
Am sure the full article will show us how deeply incisive, with her “no punches pulled” approach to the proper examinination of the “details” of the case, our Justine has
become.
January 26th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
I am not sure to remember why justine McGuiness has been chucked out?(has she of her own or?)
Can you remind me?
January 26th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
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Matt. Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
564…chernier
“”””MCCANN SPOKESMAN ‘SATISFIED’ BY FORUM CLOSURE
Saturday January 26th 2008
by Justine McGuinness”””””
Now…where have I heard of that name before ???
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Yep; I should have spotted that one.
I’m still sulking at the omission of myself from the ranks; something along the lines of ‘the inane ramblings of the oxygen-deprived’ would have been a fitting tribute…
January 26th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
593
can’t say no Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
January 26th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
thanks sly - will look forward to that (not) !
January 26th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
Mods & Admin
That clip has been shown here and is freely available on you tube. Why am I in moderation?
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Mods and Admin
Because there are 2 links, and we accept one only per post
January 26th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
590
chenier Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
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AND kind!
You see, I am a lazy cow,thats all.I spend my life translating 3 languages and at the end of the day…it get confusing and tirering
My favorite is english though.
Standahl and Moliere are very difficult to read even for a “froggy”
January 26th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
Nosey, it was easy!
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2008-01-26T182214Z_01_L26673597_RTRUKOC_0_UK-BRITAIN-MCCANN.xml
2nd documentary
January 26th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
thanks sly - am suffering badly from CBA syndrome at the mo
January 26th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
564…chernier
“”"”MCCANN SPOKESMAN ‘SATISFIED’ BY FORUM CLOSURE
Saturday January 26th 2008
by Justine McGuinness”"”"”
Now…where have I heard of that name before ???
January 26th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
591
jo
No silly
The worst english is mine
don’t take that from me 
I was talking about the foreign links
January 26th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
588
noseycow Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
evening all - slyfox - what 2nd documentary ????
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Do I have to go and find a link now….?
If it’s not on this site - link to article which I think is the express - then it’s on 3ags.
Oh alright I’ll have a browse..
January 26th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
581
can’t say no Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
Its simply atrocious!
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jo
Sometimes i forget
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That my english is sooooooooooooo bad???? How could this happen??
January 26th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
580
jo Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
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Your English is at least a million times better than my non-English.
I used to be able to read French fairly well, but a couple of years ago I picked up a novel and realised it had all gone.
Admittedly it was Stendhal, but I had no better luck with Moliere, so I gave up altogether.
Your translations not only keep the libel wolf from the door, but spare me the reminder of my incompetence…
January 26th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
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Irene Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
http://trannyfattyacid.blogspot.com/2007/10/gordon-browns-reason-for-helping-gerry.html
January 26th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
evening all - slyfox - what 2nd documentary ????
January 26th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
“Keep you in the the dark, you know they all pretend”
“What if I said I’m not like the others, What if I said I’m not just another one of your plays, you’re the pretender, What if I said I will never surrender”
January 26th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
584 jo
Exactly. I’ve said that more than once. I don’t think it will be too long now.