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 5:03 pm
I think the tables are turning for the Neglectors.
NO attention for Perfect Parent Kate on mothers day but there is attention for Shannon’s mother.
That’s a real snub for Kate as she seems to be ENJOYING the spotlight.
The Holy Ones wanted media attention from the first minute AGAINST POLICE ADVICE.
A fact they are trying to justify with alledged praise from smalltime childcare organisations.
But the fact remains police must decide whether publicity is wanted and needed or not.
This whole charade has been for money and PR.Not for Madeleine.
Maybe it is a good thing the investigation around Shannon is not all over the media as it might do more harm then good.
I don’t know why “good samaritans” like JK rowling, Brian Kennedy etc. do not start a reward fund for missing children in general.
Then parents who are not well off(like Shannons parents) do not feel they have no choice but follow the Neglectors example and start a media frenzy to raise reward money.
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:58 pm
pppy … one thing that sticks in my mind over Shannon is what her little friend said - apart that she did mention running away from home, is that she appeared very subdued the day before, every little alarm bell tells me that something very wrong happened.
I still stick to my opinion that Shannon did run away, but some opportunistic idiot grabbed her. She was not street-wise, and would have been a very easy target for someone with a sick mind.
I too wish that her little face could become as well known as Madeleine’s, but unfortunately financial backing does not appear to be the same for this poor little girl. Why has an e-mail campaign not been started for Shannon? It costs next-to-nothing for someone to send the mail on, and very often, in this way it reaches the right person who may just have that little bit of information that the police are looking for.
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:49 pm
This is sad, read the last line.
http://www.people.co.uk/news/tm_headline=lost-little-shannon-snatched&method=full&objectid=20337199&siteid=93463-name_page.html
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Julie - you are not wrong..that poor girl!
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:47 pm
209 julie
omg. I got gooseflesh. the poor woman. They have three children too, what a shock for them all.
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:47 pm
208 - nothing that i’ve heard, I thought there might be a mothers day speech by Lady kate, but no…
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:45 pm
I was watching the video earlier of Levi Bellfield’s ex-girlfriend :
http://video.news.sky.com/skynews/video/?&videoSourceID=1307612&flashURL=/feeds/skynews/latest/flash/bellfield2_milly_020308.flv
I haven’t seen such genuine heartache and sadness for a long time! Her face says it all
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:44 pm
206 just me
lol. I got a painting of me, wearing a purple top. I do look very slim, but I am not sure about the eight fingers.
Any exciting news from Rothley Manor today? Any spins being spun?
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:43 pm
has Gandolf had a personality transplant?? not that im knocking it lol
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Hi pppy, awww thats sweet of them
Sam woke me up with flowers and a card and then he went back on his pc…much more important lol
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Happy Mothers Day to all you wonderful moms over there
It’s not Mothers Day over here, so I will let you all know on the day, then you can all wish me too
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:34 pm
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pppy Says:
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:33 pm
were is I-c-b-n today?
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Oh, he popped his head up a few minutes ago
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:34 pm
201 just me
Happy Mothers Day you!
Bless them
My two phoned me at 8.00am
Must be hard for katie poo today…
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:33 pm
200 DuncanR
If you are in Birmingham stirring tea, you could have made me a cup! I had to have a long lie in. I ache from dancing and though Eastenders in bed may help.
However, I watched a bit of the Gingernut docu, and I have to say Harry looked rather yummy (think of the csa you could get from that, julie!)
were is I-c-b-n today?
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Very Good Afternoon to you all, and big hugs to all the caring mums ((((hugs))))
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:28 pm
194 - pppy Says:
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‘Morning everyone’ ?????
Bloody hell, It’s nearly 4.30pm here in Brum. I’m just making my tea!
Thought you were in UK.
You had a long lie - or is my clock wrong?
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:26 pm
pppy - you have absolutely nothing to be ashamed of because of yesterday - you just ably assisted in putting a dingbat into its place
If I had to be emarrassed over some of the things I’ve said on this site over the last 8 or 9 months, I would have dug my own hole and buried myself by now 
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:24 pm
185 Jo - agreed. Karen Matthews and Kate McCann have this in common: you get the feeling they don’t like their children very much.
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:22 pm
191 julie
Nicely put
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:21 pm
195 julie
Well I danced and then drank some, we quite a bit, of vodka
It was the only way forward after yesterdays anorak debacle
Are you okay today? x
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:20 pm
Wotcha blushing for? Have you done something we should know about
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Morning everyone
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Going as well
C u later
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Time to go.
Good sleuthing !!!!
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:07 pm
I’m all for cutting the knackers & extension off sex offenders. BUT ….. the hands do just as much damage!!!
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:02 pm
188…jo
Pink not a colour in my wardrobe.
But some men do seem to like it….wusses.
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:02 pm
Jo
185
It has always struck me the britain”s lingering victorian feeling towards children…even now I feel it is very strong
Very different to the latin/southern culture where children and adults spend an awful long time together having a life together and not set at different times to suit the PARENTS more than anythingelse really….hence the sad “Madeleine”s abduction”…..
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Agree; particularly pertinent vis a vis MM.
And re paedophila, Britain has always had a strong history of institutionalism - public schools, church institutions, care homes, even the workhouse - and all of these places have hidden terrible wrongs behind high walls and pretty hedges on physical levels and beneath traditions of silence and acceptance on other levels.
March 2nd, 2008 at 3:58 pm
184
Matt.
Do you like pink then? I think it would be a very touching detail
182
Matt
ok…..then them getting into this sort of project seems unlikely.
OUF….what a relief I suddenly breathe better
March 2nd, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Never mind isolating child sex offenders in separate prison wings. Let the Natural Law of prisons take effect.
Paraphrasing Gene Hunt: ”You’re the one who;s going to have to knit yourself a new arse after 25 years of aggressive male affection in prison showers’.
March 2nd, 2008 at 3:55 pm
180…jo
Our, on the scene reporter, delboy….says “all quiet re Shannon today”.