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 9:17 pm
502
that would be a laugh would it not……
January 29th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
Stevo
Are you still around?
Don’t want to sound like a broken record Sledge-type, but …
what about the elbow-less MM picture in the church in PdL?
On the same topic: haven’t seen Harry Hindsight back from his week in PdL this month …
January 29th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
Night all, and, as Dave Allen used to say, may your god be with you!
January 29th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
sledgehammer, sadly I am being summonsed!
Maybe tommorrow - would you like to kick us off or shall I? Let me know.
If I get to start, I’d like to examine what we will both accept as constituting ‘evidence’.
January 29th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
i reckon sledgy is a solicitor…..police….social worker
January 29th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Châtelaine, it’s OK forget it just some more of TB’s sensational utterings, Duncan R thought it deserved an explanation appears tonight’s Mod is giving it a wide berth, wonder why.
January 29th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
500
clouseau Says:
January 29th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
what has happened to the million posters…..bet the printers are pissed off
*****
My printers would be more than that …
January 29th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
500 clouseau
Depends on the terms of the contract - if they got printing quickly enough, the contract may have to be honoured?
January 29th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
494
clouseau Says:
January 29th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
sledgy are u a mason? nipple showing and all that
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and he’s got a mate in the CID, he goes fishing with him
January 29th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
what has happened to the million posters…..bet the printers are pissed off
January 29th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
497 Sledgehammer
At last! Now we can debate from a level playing field!
January 29th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
461 Sledgehammer
Look! He admits that he has never been as presumptuous to think that he knows what happened.
(’He’ or ’she’ - I dont know, so I’m now going for ‘he’)
January 29th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Ian, you have never seen any expression of mine, as to what happened that night, whatever it was.
January 29th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Ciara-Louise
Are you there you sexy beast???
January 29th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
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Sledgehammer Says:
January 29th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
“Châtelaine, well at least you have the courage to admit that you agree with TB’s definitive statement, or do you.”
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Sir Sledge, would you mind to make proper quotes and references?!
January 29th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
sledgy are u a mason? nipple showing and all that
January 29th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
470 Ian
Sledgehammer may be admitting that the possibility of abduction is as likely as the possibility of accident and concealment by the McCanns.
This is a new and welcome stance.
January 29th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
481
Stevo Says:
January 29th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
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so sledgy is claiming to be a mason is he ?? yeah right and im the bloody pope
January 29th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
ask for one piece of evidence and Garthy is off…at least sledgy will have a go….
January 29th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
Ciara-Louise
And…I forgot to add “good evening ;)”
January 29th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
Châtelaine, well at least you have the courage to admit that you agree with TB’s definitive statement, or do you.
January 29th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
415 Michael
Great post and right on the mark. Good luck tomorrow.
January 29th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
483 man on a hill
I believe that this and class prejudice is exactly the fuel which fires the McCann engine.
January 29th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
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Châtelaine Says:
January 29th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
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well im fine thanks, very nice of you to ask. So what the verdict ?? Do we all agree the mcs are dispicable low life pathetic excuses for parents ?? Surely we all agree on that at least
January 29th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
477 RedRooster
Ah but they do, Red, they know that it was an abduction - 103%. They fail to explain how they know that..over and over again.
It is the least likely answer, though I do not reject it.
Yet they reject anything but that option. Its a totally indefensible stance.
January 29th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Wonder if it was a mason who laid the patio in Fred West’s back garden
January 29th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
All this anti PJ stuff by the pro-trolls is racism by the back door.
January 29th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
Evening Stevo.
January 29th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
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Ciara-Louise Says:
January 29th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
Evening Sledgehammer.
I’m confused, I thought you being a mason was a secret.
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He might have laid a few slabs on a patio….that would make him a mason wouldn’t it?
January 29th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
473 Garth
Evening Garth.
Think we are being asked, by Team McCann, to only consider night of 3rd.
Big error imho.