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 11:41 pm
looking forward to it can’t
Peter O (hero of the aviation world) do you have a link to the claims about moderators giving email addresses etc???
January 26th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
653 Jo
Probably, the Reuter”s article said they were considering making another Documentary, perhaps directed by Jon Corner and sold to the highest bidder.?
Were”nt you the one who helped me sort out the problem I was having with Popups ?
I clicked “pop swatter “on the screen found “help” followed instructions leading to the
control panel where sure enough there was the “Web Browser”. Don”t know how it got there,
but I removed it and no trouble since………..many thanks, I”d never have sorted it on my
own, didn”t even know what “pop swatter” meant.
January 26th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
Peter O - you’d be better sticking to the freedom of speech argument
January 26th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
think that long post
will be tomorrow
January 26th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
642 Sly Fox
Yes you are a fly fox as you say.
Val 649
Look at Christine 649 at the very slowed down version. Then make up your mind.
January 26th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
Someone in the u.K.
January 26th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
664 tris - I think they dropped that one - could be that they never intended to sue as they hired their criminal lawyer to make the threat
January 26th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
664
Trismegistus
As far as i know none
+ there’s a lot of anti media here
Think they will not need more money
January 26th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
662 noseycow…
or eaten by the vicious dogs set on them by the wild-eyed pig farmer!
(And high time too, I might add!)
January 26th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
can’t - where did that come from??
January 26th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
564 chenier Says: January 26th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
557 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?
++++++++++
Do you think it might just be too much a red rag to a bull if I were to write to Justine McGuinness, whichever numpty penned the forthcoming Sunday Times article and perhaps the Comical One himself, like so:
Based on my intrepretation of the media reporting of this case in the UK and across Europe over the past nine months, it is my opinion that the McCann’s, and/or some of their friends and even possibly some of their family by now, know rather more about the events leading up to and following Madeleine’s disappearance.
January 26th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
Anyone know how the McCanns’ lawsuit against the Portuguese press– for daring to suggest that the police think they might be responsible for their daughter’s disappearance– is going?
Just curious.
January 26th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
McCann have relatives in the Police, Townhall, court hear in Blackburn
?
January 26th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
tris - LMAO - and fed to the pigs no doubt
January 26th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
da da daaaahhh
January 26th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
They’ve been bumped off by Metodo2+2=5
January 26th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
twilight zone
dcb?
January 26th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
All i heard was that they flew there - then (deep voice) - nothing!
January 26th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
Didn’t they do a show anyway??? I heard they all flew into PDL - anyone from the US- has it been broadcast yet?
January 26th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
They flew to PDL weeks ago - then silence - wwwooooooohhhh - eerie!
January 26th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
651
dcb Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
Whatever happened to the US psychics?
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Too expensive?
January 26th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
nite sly
January 26th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
648
val Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 11:23 pm
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Reading a script?
January 26th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
644
dcb Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
i sense a very very long post coming on here soon.
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Are you taking the mickey? My posts are short/long/informative! (-: Night.
January 26th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
Whatever happened to the US psychics?
January 26th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
646
noseycow Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
dcb ??? are you psychic ??
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From the US ??
January 26th, 2008 at 11:23 pm
644
dcb
indeed
January 26th, 2008 at 11:23 pm
641 Slyfox
I don”t think Gerry is looking at Kate, he seems more to be looking across the room.
Read the Reuter”s Article you posted earlier, very interesting. The interference and
publicity seeking by the McCanns beggars belief!!!!!! Having initially been directly
responsible for Madeleine”s disappearance, Kate refusing to answer certain questions, their
reluctance to return to Portugal etc etc, they now want to publicise a Border Control system
and complain the Portugese police took 12 hours to notify the Spanish police of their daughter”s disappearance……….when will the PJ make their move and put an end to all
this nonsense.
January 26th, 2008 at 11:23 pm
643
noseycow Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
sly you sentimental old fing you !!!
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Ah but you’re not getting me…(-: It’s just the one moment of empathy I have seen in all footage.
Still don’t know what it means.
642
jo Says:
‘They look so stiff!’
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That’s why the ‘look’ is so interesting. They’re always stiff.
Anyways, I could be reading more into it than it warrants, just an interesting moment in the McCann visual series that didn’t seem to happen any other time-that I can remember.
Am off to bed.
January 26th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
dcb ??? are you psychic ??