Is Madeleine McCann Disappearing From The UK Press?
THE Anorak has been watching the media’s treatment of the Madeleine McCann story for some months.
The tragedy of a missing child was turned into a media feeding frenzy, a grim story with any gaps in the narrative plugged with speculation and voyeurism.
We were invited to become sleuths, armchair detectives working out who had done what and how. Nothing meaningful has been achieved by this. Madeleine McCann is missing.
Who cannot feel for those involved? Who would want to be them?
Now Anorak learns from a reader that the Madeleine McCann story may be disappearing from the British press, and newspapers’ websites.
Anorak’s team of moderators seeks to weed out libellous comments and anyone making accusations against individuals they cannot back up. We seek not to mirror the press but show you how the story is presented by media outlets to their audiences. Now read this:
. xklamation |
Madeleine McCann is vanishing from the British Press
Every single story in the Daily Express and in the Daily Star regarding Madeleine McCann has disappeared.
This was the answer given by the Daily Express’ online editor, Geoff Marsh:
“Hi xxx, Many thanks for your email. For operational reasons, some articles previously available on express.co.UK have been temporarily removed. I’m afraid I can’t go into any more detail. Best wishes, Geoff”
And from the web team of Daily Express:
“Hi xxx
Many thanks for your email - and indeed your continued support as a regular reader.
I assure you, we do value you - and your input.
Daily Express
Due to operational reasons, a number of stories which previously appeared on express.co.uk have been made temporarily unavailable.Apologies if this causes any inconvenience or disrupts your use of our website.
I’m afraid I can’t go into any more detail.
However I would like to emphasise once again that we value your readership - and are grateful for your ongoing support of express.co.uk.
Best wishes
The Web Team”
Why is thia happening?
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February 22nd, 2008 at 10:43 pm
182 Noseycow
http://www.kidnapping.be/maddie/maddie.html
Google Translation
Finally, things begin to move. The British police are preparing to carry out further interrogation. Indeed, until now, the investigation into Madeleine was making more, it was standing … At least at the level media on the sidelines because many things are happening. In short, the letters of request, written in close collaboration with the British authorities, were sent for the second time. The first time, the Home Office, had returned to referring to a procedural error. But without these interrogations, the Portuguese police can not move properly. The Attorney General of the Portuguese Republic is not known how long this impasse will last from the Home Office. Rumours show a political will to dealing with the issue until after the elections scheduled in May in Britain. However, the Ministry of Interior had received a British official request from the Portuguese authorities. The letters rogatory, version 2, arrived since 03 February in the UK. The letter made the request for a hearing by Jane Tanner, Russell O’Brien and David Payne in order to verify and clarify certain points to inconsistencies in the various statements. We know, too, that two more suspects will be placed under statute “arguidos.”
The investigation stalled?
From a media point of view, nothing seems to move. Aside from the latest political twists policies of the case, the press remained well miserly information on the case. But the investigation is continuing. Excavations are underway and will continue. The GP is seeking the body of Madeleine it is no longer any doubt to the police Maddeleine is deceased. The police actively seeking the second spot where the body of Madeleine was “filed” and where, in all likelihood, it would be even. Recall that the police knows perfectly the first place where the body of Madeleine was “stored”. Thus, based on the GSM triangulations used by the various parties in that case, police conducting excavations at specific locations. Indeed several enormous tracts of land are the subject of much attention. Half of them had already been searched. Dams entire polled were even with the help of a sonar. The police seemed confident in his research and where the body of the little girl is actually retrieved, it will change dramatically the facts of the case.
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:43 pm
189 dcb
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Somehow Hemingway strikes me as the most funny, yet so sad.
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:41 pm
After collecting all the elements, and crossing information from various sources, SOL’s investigation makes a reconstitution of the night that Maddie disappeared.
6 p.m. The McCanns pick their children up at the Ocean Club’s creche.
7.30 Madeleine and the twins go to bed.
8.30 Gerry and Kate arrive at the Tapas restaurant.
8.45 Russell, Matthew and Rachel Oldfield go to the restaurant.
8.55 David and Fiona Payne also arrive at the Tapas. According to David, all the elements of the group were already there. But Rachel assures that Matthew arrived two or three minutes after the Paynes.
9.00 Matthew went to check on the children.
9.05 Gerry left the Tapas to check on his children. When he is returning to the dinner, he meets Jeremy Wilkins , an English man he met during the holidays , and chats with him for ten minutes. Neither Gerry nor Jeremy notice Jane or the suspicious man that she says she saw, although they were all on the same narrow street at the same time.
9.10 Jane went to check on her children and notices a man walking hastily, carrying a child. She memorizes the suspect, but fails to recognize Maddie.
9.25 Gerry returns to Tapas. Russell told PJ that at this time Matt and he went to check the children.
9.30 Matthew goes into Madeleine’s apartment. Russell O’Brien leaves the restaurant at the same time. In the first statements, Matt does not refer anything strange in Madeleine?s room and Russell fails to explain that he stayed in his apartment because his younger daughter was feeling sick. Later, Matt said that he noticed more light in the McCanns’ apartment and Russell revealed his daughter was vomiting.
9.35 Matthew Oldfield returned to Tapas.
9.45 Jane Tanner says at this time , not at 9.30 , Matthew and Russell left the restaurant.
9.55 Russell returns to the restaurant.
10.00 Jane goes to the apartment and notices her daughter has disappeared. She goes back to Tapas and raises the alarm. Everybody leaves the restaurant, except Dianne Webster.
10.05 Dianne Webster goes into Maddie’s room. The twins are sleeping.
22.15 Dianne returns to Tapas, to pick up her purse and her camera.
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:41 pm
190
val Says:
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thank god for that…it was getting quite painful. A very good evening to you Val. So what new ??? Any sign of the elusive pj??? Any more sightings ?? Any confessions ?? Anything ??
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:41 pm
182 Noseycowhttp://sosmaddie.dhblogs.be/
16.02.2008
Tapas group has already prepared the interrogations“
It will not be an easy task as they have had the time and the advice to help them prepare themselves for the interrogations” stated a British police officer, explaining that the McCann couple and their friends have had recourse to lawyers and other experts to help them prepare and organise themselves.
The investigators, in the United Kingdom as well as in Portugal, have been surprised by a report, made by a group of specialists related to intelligence services, that detailed and revealed the quality of the organisation that has created itself around the parents of Madeleine and the group of friends that accompanied them during their stay in Portugal.
“This is not the work of parents. It’s too professional for it to be the work of a couple of doctors, however intelligent they are” our source affirms.
(to be continued)
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:41 pm
187
RedRooster Says:
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:36 pm
No….. what about if i was to pluck myself ???
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Oh…………….Please don’t.
I like you as you are.
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:39 pm
188
Jolie Says
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And Jolie - it’s about the only thing I can post that is as long as your posts
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:39 pm
See you tomorrow, ladies and gents (If Anorak’s Madeleine forum hasn’t been whoosh! clunked by then)
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:37 pm
182 Noseycow
Hello to you and everyone including my “friend RR!!!
the info I had yesterday is actually a translation so don”t think it is contentious.
Simply, it said that “No Stone Unturned , which is a non profit, non charity
Company , would not help finance the Marie Luz posters etc because the company was set up to find Madeleine “.
Tahat”s the first one.
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:37 pm
186
veritablequandary Says
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Acknowledgment to you. It still makes me laugh when I read it and thanks for posting it originally.
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:37 pm
dcb and veritablequandary
[claps hands]
very nice!
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:36 pm
No….. what about if i was to pluck myself ???
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:34 pm
183 dcb Says:
Yep I contributed that piece of wisdom, altho was not my creation.
(did you see my viagra contribution the other day?)
I wonder how much chicken crossing road humour crosses cultures.
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:32 pm
I’m not particulary good at the small talk stuff, I don’t drink, and it’s only a little after 4 pm here, so I hope you don’t mind that I stay on topic, talking to myself here….
Anyhow, related to Nosey’s question a little while ago, I rediscovered this October 9 article about a 3D reconstruction of the events of May 3:
Reconstruction ‘casts doubt on Madeleine McCann kidnapping’
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article2622152.ece
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:32 pm
178 Totje Says:
We’re drinking wine now and mrT supplies it, so can’t use it as an excuse.
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I’m sipping Matt’s special recipe and feeling rather mellow.
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:32 pm
Repeat of something posted on here ages ago which I thin is great:
Why did the chicken cross the road?
DR. PHIL:
The problem we have here is that this chicken won ‘ t realize that he must first deal with the problem on ‘ THIS ‘ side of the road before it goes after the problem on the ‘ OTHER SIDE ‘ of the road. What we need to do is help him realize how stupid he ‘ s acting by not taking on his ‘ CURRENT ‘ problems before adding ‘ NEW ‘ problems.
OPRAH:
Well, I understand that the chicken is having problems, which is why he wants to cross this road so bad. So instead of having the chicken learn from his mistakes and take falls, which is a part of life, I ‘ m going to give this chicken a car so that he can just drive across the road and not live his life like the rest of the chickens.
GEORGE W. BUSH:
We don ‘ t really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road, or not. The chicken is either against us, or for us. There is no middle ground here.
COLIN POWELL:
Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see the satellite image of the chicken crossing the road…
ANDERSON COOPER - CNN:
We have reason to believe there is a chicken, but we have not yet been allowed to have access to the other side of the road.
JOHN KERRY:
Although I voted to let the chicken cross the road, I am now against it! It was the wrong road to cross, and I was misled about the chicken ‘ s intentions. I am not for it now, and will remain against it.
NANCY GRACE:
That chicken crossed the road because he ‘ s GUILTY! You can see it in his eyes and the way he walks.
PAT BUCHANAN:
To steal the job of a decent, hardworking Americans.
MARTHA STEWART:
No one called me to warn me which way that chicken was going. I had a standing order at the Farmer ‘ s Market to sell my eggs when the price dropped to a certain level. No little bird gave me any insider information.
DR SEUSS:
Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes, the chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed I ‘ ve not been told.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY:
To die in the rain. Alone.
JERRY FALWELL:
Because the chicken was gay! Can ‘ t you people see the plain truth? ‘ That ‘ s why they call it the ‘ other side. ‘ Yes, my friends, that chicken is gay. And if you eat that chicken, you will become gay too. I say we boycott all chickens until we sort out this abomination that the liberal media white washes with seemingly harmless phrases like ‘ the other side. That chicken should not be crossing the road. It ‘ s as plain and as simple as that.
GRANDPA:
In my day we didn ‘ t ask why the chicken crossed the road. Somebody told us the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough.
BARBARA WALTERS:
Isn ‘ t that interesting? In a few moments, we will be listening to the chicken tell, for the first time, the heart warming story of how it experienced a serious case of molting, and went on to accomplish its life long dream of crossing the road.
ARISTOTLE:
It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.
JOHN LENNON:
Imagine all the chickens in the world crossing roads together, in peace.
BILL GATES:
I have just released eChicken2007, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your check book. Internet Explorer is an integral part of eChicken. This new platform is much more stable and will never cra…#@&&^(C% ……. reboot.
ALBERT EINSTEIN:
Did the chicken really cross the road, or did the road move beneath the chicken?
BILL CLINTON:
I did not cross the road with THAT chicken. What is your definition of chicken?
AL GORE:
I invented the chicken!
COLONEL SANDERS:
Did I miss one?
DICK CHENEY :
Where ‘ s my gun?
AL SHARPTON:
Why are all the chickens white? We need some black chickens.
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:29 pm
val - i’ve not gone
mr noseycow is perfectly capable of making his own coffee 
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:27 pm
Another May 3 timeline from a blog called Oxy Moran (it took a while to load but seems okay)
http://oxymoran.blogspot.com/2008/01/heres-excellent-timeline-of-those.html
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:26 pm
176 Noseycow
Are we “cast adrift ” from the main thread or something? Just as I was going to
post , your”e off!!!!!!! Are you coming back soon?
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:24 pm
Would it help if i flap my wings and jump up and down and do a little cock-a-doooodle-doooo
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:21 pm
Is “….think I’m in the kitchen doing the dishwasher…” different from the fast spin cycle on the washing machine?
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:20 pm
176
noseycow
We’re drinking wine now and mrT supplies it, so can’t use it as an excuse. Pity. But we’re having fun all together. So I’m going to join them again.
Bye. I’ll think of another excuse….
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:19 pm
Off to the friends leaving laptop in the kitchen
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:19 pm
171 totje - naughty
i popped out to make a coffee, about an hour ago! 
Mr noseycow will be shouting any moment now… 
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:18 pm
174
dcb
No problem. Heard about the ‘ugly’ link too, but it had a warning only adult content. This one is the magic song from Disney Bibbidi bobbidi boo.
I can sing it for you
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:15 pm
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Totje Says
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Sorry I don’t click on you tube links, and from hearing some things that other people have said when they did, I’m glad i am a grumpy boring old fart.
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:15 pm
Nosey
Didn’t mean to leave you hanging there. Darn family interrupting! lol
This might be a starting place for you on the timeline for May 3rd’s coming and goings: http://www.mccannfiles.com/id68.html
I will look to see if there is something else, too.
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:15 pm
Good evening and how is everyone this evening ???
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:13 pm
169
noseycow
They can’t see me. MrT and friends think I’m in the kitchen doing the dishwasher. So can’t stay long.
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:12 pm
165
dcb
Not necessary, June can do magic: woosh..clunk..gone!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fMoWsW7Vfs