Madeleine McCann: Britney Spears, Lolita And Birthday Cards
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
DAILY MAIL: “Woolworths forced to withdraw LOLITA bedroom furniture range for girls”
The Lolita Midsleeper Combi, a wooden bed with pull-out desk and cupboard designed for girls aged around six, retails on the Woolworths website for £349.99
The name has “sexual connotations”. A “mother” sees it and writes: “Am I being particularly sensitive, or does anyone else out there think it’s bad taste for Woolies to have a kiddy bed range named ‘Lolita’?”
Well, you don’t have to buy it…
A spokesman for the company says: “What seems to have happened is the staff who run the website had never heard of Lolita, and to be honest no one else here had either. We had to look it up on Wikipedia. But we certainly know who she is now”
Trusting Wikipedia for information has its own dangers. (And look out for an article on the state of British education.) But no danger is bigger than a bed named, perhaps, in honour of a charcter in a novel by Vladimir Nabokov
Or Lolita Fatjo, pre-production coordinator for Star Trek
Or many other women called Lolita
“On-line parent power has been growing in recent years. In 2006 Tesco stopped selling a pole-dancing kit on its website over accusations it was destroying children’s innocence. And last summer an on-line campaign by Mumsnet resulted in a cinema advert about the disappearance of Madeleine McCann stopped from being screened before the children’s film Shrek the Third”
THE TIMES: “Staff at Woolworths baffled by fuss over the little girl’s bed called Lolita”
“Woolworths has withdrawn bedroom furniture for young girls bearing the sexually charged name Lolita after a campaign waged by a mothers’ online chat room”
An internal company e-mail seen by The Times goes: “As discussed, we’ve got the product below on our website. Can it be hidden as soon as is possible? Then I really need to find out how it came about being on our site and who bought it. Lolita is a word that means sexually active young teenagers, so a young girls’ range of bedroom products is in very poor taste. We’ve had an approach from a website who are clearly a little disturbed by this”
THE SUN: “Gift from Maddie for twins”
No, not furniture
“Twins Sean and Amelie McCann will get a special present from their missing sister Maddie today on their third birthday. Parents Kate and Gerry got the gift for the pair who, at three, are the same age as Maddie when she vanished last May”
Sad. But is it relevant to the case? Is it news?
Grandmother Eileen McCann tells us: “Of course Madeleine being there would be our dream but we’ll do our best to make sure the twins have a lovely day”
DAILY TELEGRAPH: “Card from Madeleine at McCann twins party”
The twins are getting a gift in the Sun…
“Gerry and Kate McCann will throw a birthday party for their twins tomorrow - complete with a card from their missing four-year-old daughter, Madeleine”
DAILY STAR: “MISSING MADDIE’S SPECIAL PREZZIE”
“Little Sean and Amelie McCann will open a special present from their big sister as they celebrate their third birthday today”
With a card?
Says Eileen McCann: “There will be presents galore, lots of fun and games, lots of food and a big cake. Of course, Madeleine being home would make it complete and we continue to pray for that blessing”
SUR (Spain): “Marbella suffer their first loss of the year against Linares”
A football match: “Wearing T-shirts to raise awareness of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann and Mari Luz Cortés, the children playing in the tournament accompanied the players onto the pitch as mascots at the beginning of the game”
RADAR: “Theater of Cruelty, Carnival of Souls”
“British rags hardly pretend to be providing straightforward news. What they are doing is what used to be the job of popular fiction; namely, processing myth out of characters sucked in from real life. Right now the cast list includes such durable regulars as Kate Moss—with or without Pete Doherty—Princes Harry and Wills, Posh and Becks, and Kate and Gerry McCann, whose daughter Madeleine’s kidnapping/disappearance in Portugal made them last year’s headliners”
ALISTAIR CAMPBELL (TIMES): Britney Spears: person or news commodity? She’s a great singer but obviously ill: we in the media have to decide to leave her alone”
Britney Spears and Madeleine McCann..?
“In some sections of the media, Madeleine McCann and her family are there. As I said in the Cudlipp Lecture on Tuesday, her disappearance was an interesting and important story, the stuff of every parent’s nightmare. But it quickly became a commodity in which most of the media got close to hysteria, and some have remained there. Let us not pretend the coverage was driven by concern for the child - there are many missing children - or compassion for the parents - certainly not once the mood shifted - or regard for the truth. It has been the worst example of recent times, on a par with Diana, of some newspapers thinking that the word “Madeleine” sells, and finding literally any old nonsense to keep her name in that selling position on the front”
THE GUARDIAN: “Mechanics of the McCann campaign - Professional media management may have generated coverage of Maddy’s disappearance, but it hasn’t helped with public sympathy for the family”
“Try as they might neither Clarence Mitchell nor Justine McGuinness could quite shake off the sense that the way they’ve managed this case might have contributed to some negative public sentiment towards the family. In place initially as what Mitchell described as “a buffer” between the shocked and distraught parents and the world’s media, hungry for news about Madeleine, it’s clear that what developed was a professional media management operation. With city PR firm Bell Pottinger on hand - primarily, we can assume, to defend the interests of their clients Mark Warner Holidays - as well as Justine and, latterly, Clarence with all their experience of Westminster spin, the McCanns could not have wanted for more professional advice. But as time went on media management itself - and once you’ve started feeding stories to the press to get control of the agenda, you really can’t stop - began generating negative reaction from other parties”
Madeleine McCann: Making news and sensation from grief
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February 2nd, 2008 at 12:27 am
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Stevo Says:
February 2nd, 2008 at 12:25 am
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964 ?
February 2nd, 2008 at 12:26 am
firestar
gerry looks like someone who’d be quite anal about taking pics to me, one of those annoying twats with a lens longer than everyone else’s.
Yep…nice to sign out with a good belly laugh…cheers.
February 2nd, 2008 at 12:25 am
i’m going to bed.
and i think mrs C did it.
February 2nd, 2008 at 12:25 am
960 Evening All
Probably not…the PJ will know about this stuff I’m sure. And they’ll have more than we know about. But it’s interesting to find out stuff like this and remove some doubts and find more info than we knew before. I really must go now…very goggle eyed at looking at 1600+ thumbnails!
Night all…
February 2nd, 2008 at 12:24 am
Does this mean the 6 days holiday………………..1 photograph from their camera……….bit strange??
February 2nd, 2008 at 12:24 am
be interesting to see their pics from another holiday.
gerry looks like someone who’d be quite anal about taking pics to me, one of those annoying twats with a lens longer than everyone else’s.
i bet they took more pics on their other holidays than theyve released from their last one.
February 2nd, 2008 at 12:23 am
Chatelaine
Yes, it’s late! Sorry, got the #s wrong!
See my posts 934 and 946.
February 2nd, 2008 at 12:21 am
TENNIS PICTURE………MW EMPLOYEE
PLAYGROUND PICTURE…………….FREIND
POOL PICTURE…………………K MCCANN
February 2nd, 2008 at 12:20 am
Chatelaine
957
Sorry, refer to my post 943.
She is no-one relevant to the McCs, just someone who is expecting triplets but who is, almost certainly, using a surrogate.
February 2nd, 2008 at 12:20 am
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Stevo Says:
February 2nd, 2008 at 12:16 am
Hey…and the tennis pic in full has some of the court in it near the top.
It’s 3072 x 2304 - a 4:3 ratio. Most likely straight out the camera.
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Stevo 3 different cameras…………..three cameras
February 2nd, 2008 at 12:19 am
you can set google to look for images of a particular size.
a lot of the time the filename stays the same.
i may look tomorrow.
February 2nd, 2008 at 12:17 am
Stevo I have been reading your posts through out the day, all very clever stuff. Do you think you will pass all this information on to the PJ at some point?
February 2nd, 2008 at 12:16 am
Hey…and the tennis pic in full has some of the court in it near the top.
It’s 3072 x 2304 - a 4:3 ratio. Most likely straight out the camera.
February 2nd, 2008 at 12:16 am
757
Stevo
The Holy Ones refer to Madeleine as if she has been on the earth before.
That’s hardly a Devout Catholic approach to life, more a Buddhist one .
Or it may be Kate’s “justification ” for her early death, she may be telling herself her death was not premature, she was done learning on this earth and all that New Age crap people tell themselves to feel better about themselves and the terrible results of the responsibilities they failed to take on and refuse to be held accountable for.
Madeleine is a very happy little girl with an outgoing personality. She has always been a very popular little person, appealing to both children and adults alike with her funny and engaging chatter. She has many friends who obviously miss her dearly. Despite her young age, it often felt like Madeleine had been on this earth before!
February 2nd, 2008 at 12:16 am
934 Denzille
Who is Mrs C? Sorry must be bed time. Night all…………….
February 2nd, 2008 at 12:16 am
the press didn’t alter them - they were given out that way.
yes, i see that.
at least one of them has been pissed about with in some way, i’m just trying to think of an innocent reason why.
February 2nd, 2008 at 12:15 am
916
Marie Nicholas Says:
February 1st, 2008 at 11:27 pm
“I have forgotten to say, their weirdest story is that they left the children in an unlocked appartment. I can’t buy that. I can see that they are able to do stupid things like leaving the children alone to go out with their friends. If what we read in the tabloids is true, they drink too much. But even so, you would lock the children, for feer they wake up, don’t know where they are, and wander away.
They are completely nuts, or they lie. Or both”
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KM said that they didn’t lock, so that they could get out in case of e.g. a fire.
“Funnily” enough, she also said that she knew straight away MM couldn’t have wondered off, because she wouldn’t have been able to pen the door …
February 2nd, 2008 at 12:14 am
2653×1997
its the other one, sorry.
this one must have either been cropped or its the original size because it doesn’t divide at all.
February 2nd, 2008 at 12:14 am
947
firestar
Dragging a marquee by hand can do that as well but it’s all speculation what happened before the press got them. I’m pleased to find out the press didn’t alter them - they were given out that way.
February 2nd, 2008 at 12:13 am
915
Christine Says:
February 1st, 2008 at 11:27 pm
“911 Chatelaine
Do you remember the exact quote and where it was from - from my memory it was on Youtube - and GMc definitely delivered the line - driving me nuts now.”
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http://findmadeleine.com/
February 2nd, 2008 at 12:12 am
Tennis Pic first release:
Girl missing in Algarve
Undated McCann family handout of missing Madeleine McCann taken during the family’s current holiday at Praia Da Luz, Algarve, Portugal. Police investigating the disappearance of the three-year-old are investigating the possibility of a British abductor, it emerged today.
Issue date: Monday, May 7 2007.
February 2nd, 2008 at 12:11 am
tell its late, look how crap my maths is.
i actually meant 1334, and that still divides again.
February 2nd, 2008 at 12:10 am
944
thats true.
my old one did anyway, but i’ve not used one for years.
you can increase resulution in some image editors though, adobe photodeluxe used to do it, then you could crop the same.
February 2nd, 2008 at 12:09 am
I was going to write a book about the case…
“Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them”.
But I think it’s been done.
http://tinyurl.com/ytslgc
jj 00.16
February 2nd, 2008 at 12:08 am
2668×4096
although the 2668 only divides once, to 1444 x 2048, so if it was scanned it was increased by 2X
(unless the software lost a pixel somewhere, which sometimes happens when you save stuff)
February 2nd, 2008 at 12:07 am
934
My own post
Just an addition.
The couple I refer to speak of ‘our pregnancy’ (and ‘we have just found out we are expecting triplets!!’) and about going for scans, etc., but these veiled refs. do not say explicitly that Mrs C. is carrying the children whsoe scans are being looked at. It’s extremely likely, in that instance, given Mrs C’s age, that the triplets are being carried by a surrogate.
So -
- the point I’m making is that, even if KM has referred to a ‘pregnancy’, we should not be fooled into assuming that this was her own.
And the ‘fact’(?) that JT was present at MM’s birth (and GM wisnae?) probably means next to nothing in this context.
February 2nd, 2008 at 12:07 am
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Stevo Says:
February 1st, 2008 at 11:53 pm
921
Châtelaine
Before I sign out…
What I’ve found out from finding the pool picture in the press gallery is this:
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Stevo, been reading you posts, dont forget the playground picture were taken by a freind whereas the pool photo was K Mccan alledgedly ? so at least 2 different cameras.
February 2nd, 2008 at 12:06 am
942 firestar
There’s usually a tell-tale haze in scans though - due to the glass layer. It causes a small double image which you can usually see.
February 2nd, 2008 at 12:05 am
firestar
“fourth birthday” in scouse can’t be worse than “baaaaccccckkkkkk” in scouse. Sometimes Kate sounds as common as muck.
Meant to say in my last post…Woolfall could have left the following Tuesday of course.
February 2nd, 2008 at 12:05 am
937
i’d guess someone has used a scanner and just selected a rectangle to scan for whatever reason, probably to get rid of some background (or something in it)
that way, the resolution can be a multiple of whatever the rectangle size was.