Madeleine McCann And Shannon Matthews: And Jamie Bulger
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann and Shannon Matthews
THE INDEPENDENT: “Missing: The contrasting searches for Shannon and Madeleine. Has class influenced the rewards offered and publicity given to two campaigns to find missing children? Cole Moreton goes to Dewsbury to investigate”
Shannon’s parents are not doctors. The child is not blonde, neither is the mother.
Shannon’s uncle, Neil Hyett, lives next door to her, and has had his house and garden searched. The media frenzy of last week bewildered him, but like many others in Dewsbury Moor he says he now wishes he could find a way to make it continue. “It’s all gone quiet, hasn’t it?” he said at the sparse community centre from which the leaflet and poster campaign continues to be run. “Last week, you couldn’t park for television vans. Now they’ve all been sent away on other stories.” Even The Sun’s support yesterday caused disappointment. “I’m devastated, to be honest,” said a coach driver, as others around him agreed. “That poster should have been on the front page.” It was on page 17.
Madeleine McCann
Age: Four. Parents: Kate, 40, a GP. Gerry, 39, a cardiologist. Siblings: Twins, now aged two.
Home: Detached house, Leicestershire.
UK press stories after nine days: 465.
Rewards offered: £2.6m: the ‘News of the World’, Stephen Winyard, Philip Green, Simon Cowell, Coleen McLoughlin, ‘The Sun’, Sir Richard Branson, J K Rowling.
Public donations: £1.1m:
J K Rowling, Bryan Adams, David Beckham, Cristiano Ronaldo, John Terry, Phil Neville, David Moyes, the England cricket team.
Wikipedia profile: 2,182 words after nine days.
Shannon Matthews
Age: Nine. Parents: Karen, 32, and Leon Rose, 29. Stepfather, Craig, 22. Siblings: Six boys and girls, from her mother’s partnerships with five different men.
Home: Three-bed council house, Dewsbury Moor.
UK press stories after nine days: 242.
Rewards offered: £25,500. Made up of £20,000 by ‘The Sun’, £5,000 from Huddersfield firm Joseph International, £500 from Wakefield pensioner Winston Bedford.
Public donations: Thousands at most, including Leona Lewis.
Wikipedia profile: 151 words after nine days.
SUNDAY PEOPLE: “Lost little Shannon ’snatched’”
Devastated friends and family of missing schoolgirl Shannon Matthews last night insisted the nine-year-old was snatched.
Says cousin Vicky Saunders: “Shannon’s quite a timid girl and wouldn’t like to go off on her own.
Family friend Petra Jamieson adds: “She’s the ideal daughter who behaves well. We want everyone to remember Shannon, like they do Madeleine McCann.”
THE SCOTSMAN: “Madeleine sighting in France is ruled out”
We are all looking for Madeleine McCann, and at her…
A reported sighting of Madeleine McCann in southern France has been officially ruled out. Gerry McCann revealed that French police have established that the young girl seen by a Dutch tourist in Montpellier last month was not his missing daughter.He said it was “disappointing” that it took so long for this to happen after “widespread” media reporting of the sighting.
In his latest blog, Mr McCann writes: “We did hear that the French have officially ruled out the reported sighting of Madeleine in Montpellier.”
We watch the McCanns. And we scrutinise their every word. They now even report on the case.
THE OBSERVER: “’James would be 18 now - the pain of losing him will never go away’
Fifteen years ago, the murder of toddler James Bulger by two young boys horrified Britain and inflicted deep wounds on their home city of Liverpool. In this moving interview, James’s mother Denise Fergus tells Elizabeth Day that the passing years have not diminished the pain over the loss of her son and her anger towards his killers, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables.
In the aftermath of the trial in November 1993, the Daily Star carried pictures of Venables and Thompson underneath the headline ‘How do you feel now you little bastards?’
Denise Fergus still cannot bring herself to walk near the Walton railway line… It has been 15 years since the murder of her son James Bulger on this stretch of track; 15 years since he was beaten to death by two killers who were themselves children.
The pain of losing him will never go away. But there’s so much more in my life that I determined long ago not to be a victim any more. I don’t let things hurt me so easily as I once did. Like it was hurtful when the papers called him “Jamie”. That was never his name. It was like a strange label they invented to sum him up in one word. It’s the same now with Madeleine McCann. The papers call her “Maddy”.
Maddie, Shan And More: the media’s look at missing children
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March 2nd, 2008 at 2:57 pm
150 Matt
Depressing stuff, you would have thought some courageous Newspaper would
have published at the time. Tony Blair lived in Islington before he moved
upmarket, that Propaganda Matrix I posted to Del recently makes even more
interesting reading.
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Val
153
No, if you cut jokes yesterday and have switched off your computer before finding the right place to paste them, they will no longer be there.
I know you’ve said a few times that you don’t know how to find yesterday’s thread. It’s very easy. Go to the Anorak HomePage, click on ‘Madeleine McCann’ (top right) and that will open with today’s news precis and comments at the top. Scroll down and you’ll find yesterday’s, and others.
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:34 pm
143 Denzylle
144 Mariab
145 Marie Nicholas
146 Matt
Bl…y Hell, I”m inundated with help, thank you all!!!!!!!
Just one thing, before I open Wordpad, will the jokes I cut and copied yesterday
be hanging around waiting to be pasted? If not, dont ask me to go back to
yesterday”s posts and cut and copy, I”m not going through all that again., don”t know how to go back to yesterday”s posts anyway.
I will paste your info instead for future reference and try experimenting.
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:34 pm
sorry I meant this thread!
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Mods and Admin
And with respect to us, there hasn’t been any news about MM recently, her mothers earrrings do NOT count. And the discussion about the non news on Shannon Mathews would have a limited life
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Eileen Fairweather writes….about Islington and Jersey.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=523706&in_page_id=1770
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:27 pm
148…markskidd
OK….what’s your Theory about your coffee sugaring ?
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:25 pm
thought this was a forum dedicated to the MM mystery, but no!,…
it’s a dating site, oh no hang on it’s about pets. sorry my mistake, it’s basic computer use 101, how to collect jokes and pass them to your pals. Anyone like to know about my latest sandwich or how many sugars I take in my coffee?
Gaaaaaaaauuuuwwwwwwdalmighty!
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:22 pm
So many ways to copy an paste.
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:19 pm
138…val
If you open Notepad….and then hold your cursor over the item you wish
to copy and paste…..start at the bottom right…then left click….and move the
cursor to the left and upwards until the item is completely highlighted.
Then Right click on the highlighted area….. click….copy….and then Right
click to paste into Notepad.
You can then print off the individual items.
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:18 pm
Val 138
Before you cut and copy the jokes, open a file with the word application. Copy the joke, paste it into the Word file you just created, and when you save it, a window opens for you to name your file (”Anorak jokes”. Probably you’ll offered one name by the computer, the few words beginning of the joke. You can change it if you wish.), and there is a box to fill telling where you want to save it (Again, the computer offers a place. Change it if you wish. For instance :”My documents” if you have a”my documents” file). Next joke you copy, call for your file (Anorak Jokes) from (”My documents”), and paste the new joke. Don’t forget to save before you close the file. You can add as many new jokes as you want to the file.
It is much easier with a Mac, but manageable with a PC. If I can do it, you can, I am hopeless, really.
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:15 pm
138 Val
Highlight the text then use Control C to copy, then open a blank Word document and the press Control V to paste it across. Then Save as, and you can email or print.
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Val
138
You can copy them and paste them into Word. Save the doc. as ‘jokes’ and then you can print out the whole lot, or save each joke on a separate doc. to print them separately.
You can also do the same using Notepad or whatever you have in your e-mail.
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:14 pm
137 Ciara
sorry, just addressed my reply to Carmen by mistake!
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:13 pm
137 Carmen
O.K., bit quiet today, after all the “good vibrations” yesterday, must say Gandolf
was a revelation!!!!
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:12 pm
Mods and Admin
To add support and weight (mine) to Carmen’s posting.
Anorak essentially is a site where comment on topical and current news is entertained, discussed and debated over.
We long term posters have made plenty of friends on site, but make just a passing reference to our friendships on site.
However since the MM mystery has evolved and the fights , for now, are under control, we must TELL the budding romances to control their relationships in public.
I have a fair amount of forum experience, and also deal with people on a one to one basis in everyday life (peoples pets are a No1 priority) and the difficulty of watching a warm relationship fire up, blaze and possibly cool is not too pleasant for the onlookers.
Please remain as posters, but as potential lovers that is YOUR business alone, not ours.
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:10 pm
It is a bit rough though dewsbury moor, the window cleaner carries a ladder and a black and decker sander……
Thats just me being silly,
I am not having a go at shannon or her family,
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:07 pm
127 Matt
Your”e pretty clued up on the Computer, I need help.
Yesterday there were a lot of jokes told, some of which I wanted to print to
e-mail on or keep to give to my Friends who havn”t got a computer.
Obviously when I tried to print I had to quickly cancel because it was printing
from Page 1!!!!!!!!!
Then I tried cut and copy, but they are either hanging around in the Ether or
lost because I didn”t know where to copy and paste them to, if that makes sense.
Some of the jokes are quite long so would need a lot of space, something like
Publisher or Wordpad? I don”t know, probably talking through a hole in my head.!!!!!!!
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:05 pm
120
val
No offence taken. I was on here yesterday afternoon when pppy was getting a hard time and voiced my opinion on it. Anyway I think RR has gone for now but I’ll tell him to behave in future..via e mail of course.
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:04 pm
135,matt ..lol
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:03 pm
133…delboy
Powerful stuff if so.
Could knock an elephant out….never mind a toddler.
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:03 pm
124 - Carmen Says:
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RR and C-L
I have just read Carmen’s comment.
Lest you think she is a lone voice, let me advise you that I fully concur with all she says.
Your constant ‘flirting’ on Anorak, when it is clear you have each other’s email addresses and hence no need to ‘bill and coo’ an Anorak, smacks of ‘exhibitionism’ and irritates me no end.
I tell you I have been sorely tempted on many occasions to simply delete your posts to each other.
May I take this opportunity to remind you that the debate is supposed to be about the disappearance of a little girl - not your raging hormones!
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:00 pm
132,matt,
wonder if it was that new calpol drug,nicked from a chemist in dewsbury!
March 2nd, 2008 at 1:58 pm
130…delboy
Those drug effects sound…….interesting.
The New Anaesthesia ?
The BMA must investigate.
March 2nd, 2008 at 1:58 pm
126,val…
not sure myself,just another way to sell cards and goodies to the public,But whilst its here may as well make the best of it hey!
As I have said I passed dewsbury yesterday and it seemed terribly quiet,I mean,as matt pointed out it doesnt mean the police arent doing anything,I was just a little suprised,after the amount of police patrol. Lets hope they are on to something….
March 2nd, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Matt….The CRUCUFIXION thingy was a drugs related job according to police,the guy must have been as high as a kite, as he was heard singing whilst nailed to the cross,I mean can you imagine the look on the guys faces who found him lying there nailed to a cross laid in the grass, would have been priceless.lol.
March 2nd, 2008 at 1:47 pm
124 Carmen
I didn”t want to seem a troublemaker or get RR &C banned or anything, let”s hope they pay attention.
March 2nd, 2008 at 1:47 pm
124 Carmen…
That was spot-on.
I take back everything I’ve just said about you in the relevant Forum topic!
March 2nd, 2008 at 1:45 pm
123…val
Long standing case…..long standing complaints….several hush-ups.
Minor investigations done….scrapped…and people complained about moved
to other Children Homes.
Senator sacked because he opened his mouth….by that same Mr Walker.
Stinks. IMO
March 2nd, 2008 at 1:43 pm
122 Delboy
Thanks, not sure how this Mother”s day started, suspect it was the Americans, bit overrated if you ask me.
Still no news on little Shannon, looking very ominous, what a sick Society we
live in.
March 2nd, 2008 at 1:40 pm
121…delboy
I know you weren’t have a knock at the Police, delboy.
Often it is when things go seemingly quiet, most is done.
Easter and Crucifixion…..those ultra religious people up there, huh.