Madeleine McCann: Four, Three Men, DNAboost And Risk
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
DAILY STAR: “Cops slam pics of Maddie suspects – Innocent people are put at ‘risk’”
“Four” people who look like the drawings inspired by holidaymaker Gail Cooper have now been questioned by police
So says the Star. Although on closer inspection Jose Marques plus Joaquim Agostinho plus a Portuguese builder in Gibraltar makes three, not four
Celebrity criminologist Francisco Moita Flores says: “It is manipulation and propaganda.” No, not the Star’s reporting, rather the sketches
DAILY MAIL: “Fourth man questioned in Maddie e-fit probe”
When is an e-fit a drawing? Compare and contrast
The Mail sees the Portuguese builder questioned and then freed. “At least” three other men have been questioned
THE SUN: “SUPER DNA ‘WILL CLEAR McCANNS – They welcome new-style forensic tests”
A tiny sample is, reportedly, found in the McCanns’ Renault Scenic hire car. How did it get there? From her clothes, say the McCanns. “Another theory was that Maddie’s younger brother and sister may have similar DNA,” says the Sun
And there’s a new test. It’s called DNAboost. DNAboost “can separate or ‘clarify’ profiles and unravel tiny samples”
With DNAboost what you thought had gone comes back with a bang!
DAILY MIRROR (online): “McCann pics fury”
Always the “fury”
Police in Portugal “claim Kate and Gerry McCann are hindering the probe into missing Madeleine by releasing sketches of the possible kidnapper.
One detective says the drawings were too vague and could “identify dozens or hundreds of people”
“But McCann spokesman Clarence Mitchell hinted more sketches could be on the way ‘if we get any more information’”
THE INDEPENDENT: “Alastair Campbell: The Cudlipp Lecture”
“In an era of more pages, more space, more access, more talk, there is less said and done that is truly memorable. Even in Dacre’s apologia he could only draw on Stephen Lawrence – again - as the story where he felt the Mail made an impact and did some good. Similarly, in his Mactaggart Lecture Jeremy Paxman said the BBC constantly pointed to Planet Earth as evidence of good TV combining with good ratings, but did so precisely because it is a rarity. And with every front page screaming headline that doesn’t quite deliver the big story, every exclusive that isn’t, every whooshing breaking news that isn’t really breaking news at all, every new twist in the McCann case that isn’t a new twist at all, the public gets a little wiser every time”
We recognise the spin, says Mr Campbell – “Media spin to fill media space.” And we might even recognise the irony…
Madeleine McCann: A media feeding frenzy
Posted: 29th, January 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann Comments (930) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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January 29th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
Nosey - I am beginning to think you just avoid me…
January 29th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
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Allison
If they dont know.
January 29th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
PMSL
January 29th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
Hello Simon - you’re timing is c**p -
bye all
x
January 29th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
SteveT
Try “WIFE”
Washes, Irons, F… (makes love) Etc…
January 29th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
321 Allison - what info suggests she was taken then may I ask?
January 29th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
Thanks for keeping Madeleine’s name and information in the public eye. Can you really blame her parents for media spin, if that is what it is? I’d do the same. I’d do anything too if it would find my daughter or at least find out what happened to her. It would drive me bezerk not knowing. I can’t imagine how her parents would live the rest of their lives, the other children’s lives not knowing where their daughter went. The other children are going to be pissed as everything over this when they are older. I’d do everything too, because if they don’t find her, their lives are just misery. And, the truth is that they may just find the man/men who took her……
January 29th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
269 Noseycow
Glad you got a result………..hope it continues. Why is it that Women are so multi tasked?
January 29th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
brandon - when you’ve finished your cleaning there’s always plenty more over here!!! Actually the only cleaning i do at 4am is at work - talking of which…..
bye all
January 29th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
Noseycow,
Thanks for the explanation. I can now impress my kids with all the abbreviations I have learnt here.
January 29th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
and Karona?
January 29th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
Did the McCanns say that their test of the car found no DNA?
January 29th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
Hello all, sorry went awol without notice again.
Just a general point.
If this case wasn’t contained re forums, media, etc. Then couldn’t the McCanns use the prejudicial trial thingy if there wasn’t a balance maintained in all the written,spoken, media and forums.
So while I agree that voices are being nozzled, I think it’s a good thing that the media are trying to present all angles - a no matter how ‘ludicrous’ to the interested minority. Frustrating for people like me and others but the right thing to do.
I’m starting to think that CM is part of that process of balance - honest! But what do I know?
January 29th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
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brandon flours Says:
January 29th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
lone pigeon
You might change
sob!!!
Lone pigeon it is then
January 29th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Denzylle
lol
January 29th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
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SteveT Says:
January 29th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
Lone,
You have not got the looks of Cagney and Lacey, otherwise nothing.
Ahhh good.
January 29th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Val
Was it because he said I was a man or used to be Flowers?
January 29th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
stevet - sure you want to know??
piss my self laughing
January 29th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
nosey
I have actually considered it when I am spaced out cleaning at 4 am!!
January 29th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Ack, you beat me to it, Brandon Flours!
January 29th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
261/2 Logic
I don”t stay long because sometimes it”s bedlam here, but I do find it interesting and rely on
the info the posters provide because I wouldn”t know where to start, I”m not at all Computer
literate.
266 Brandon
I don”t know how to retrieve yesterday”s posts!!!!!!!! Also, I tried with the info you gave to, I
think,, Coolandcalm, on how to Archive ie, name month etc but it didn”t work for me, so I
will just plod along in my own sweet way, asking myself,”Do I really NEED to be a whizz kid
on the Computer”……..the answer is No.
January 29th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Noseycow,
pmsl?
January 29th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
267 Ian
Even more worrying … is the possibility that the current non sequitur format might be the altered one, once GM had realised that the Cooperman bore no real resemblance to the various JT versions, and this blog has been altered so as not to put either Cooper or JT (or CM) under pressure.
Does anyone have properly dated cached versions ?
Could the change be anything to do with the dates the PJ said they had TIE’d (traced, interviewed and eliminated) the various people concerned.
January 29th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
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SteveT
No but like the increasingly popular Nevaeh, it has a good reverse with Karona.
January 29th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
lone pigeon
You might change
sob!!!
January 29th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
Lone,
You have not got the looks of Cagney and Lacey, otherwise nothing.
January 29th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
265
delboy Says:
January 29th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
hello…….
a quickie….what man would not be with his wife when giving birth?
———-
wasn’t that many years ago they wouldn’t even let the husband into the delivery room.
January 29th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
brandon pmsl
January 29th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
Brandon - shall I become lone stallone?
January 29th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
lone and mines first will be called Karona