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 9:18 am
Mornin’ all…
I was browsing through The Economist this morning and saw that Lord Eddie of Snifferton Manor got a mention! Not to mention his picture, which is quite an accomplishment. More than Madeleine McCann got, although there was an article analysing the media and celebrity frenzy some months ago.
“FED on salmon and insured for £4.5m ($8.9m), Eddie is a prince among springer spaniels. The police sniffer-dog justified his lavish lifestyle on February 23rd, when he led officers to a spot at an old children’s home where, under concrete, lay the remains of a child’s skull. Police are digging up six more patches in the grounds of Haut de la Garenne, a Victorian “industrial school” that was a children’s home until 1986.”
This link gives the text, but sadly not the picture of our Eddie that appeared in the print edition.
http://tinyurl.com/334g3a
March 2nd, 2008 at 9:07 am
Happy Mother’s Day to all Mothers.
And to Gandolf - who is a Mother…
Morning Gandy
March 2nd, 2008 at 8:47 am
Start what agw, you get outta the wrong side of the bed ?
M and A
19 minutes to think of that?????
March 2nd, 2008 at 8:28 am
It’s the leaning into the corners that makes you twitch,sugar, I like the alluding to Sunflower, all that slippery oil and tanned bodies, long legs, you are teasing me with your mystery.
-agw: If you start omigosh again…it will be a slippery slope.
March 2nd, 2008 at 8:25 am
PeterMac
I think the telling thing is that Gerry was disappointed it wasn’t Madeleine after all the publicity the sighting got.
What is it with Gerry and publicity? It seems to be the be-all and end-all of his life.
March 2nd, 2008 at 8:22 am
How did you my name was Billy, have you been on the back of my bike, Carmen.
March 2nd, 2008 at 8:02 am
22 Gandolf
I agree. The big question for me is why 40,000 children a day are being born in circumstances where there is no food, and clean drinking water. There are simply too many people on the planet, and Malthus will have to sort it out if no one else will
March 2nd, 2008 at 7:54 am
For all those interested in the fate of kids.
It is estimated that 40,000, yea thats right forty thousand kids, die every single day from hunger and lack of clean drinking water.
To me at any rate, that sort of puts the whole Madeleine/Shannon marketing debate into perspective, out of sight out of mind and the 3rd world is well out of our sight,apart from the 10 second TV snippits.
The sanctity and value of human life, what utter bollox, it’s probably the cheapest and most exploited commodity on the planet.
March 2nd, 2008 at 7:50 am
20 Carmen
I love “A-Clarity”. Hope it was intentional. Or has ‘Clarrie’ now infected the entire universe.
March 2nd, 2008 at 7:42 am
An attractive woman from New York was driving through a remote part
of Texas when her car broke down. An Indian on horseback came along and
offered her a ride to a nearby town. She climbed up behind him on the
horse and they rode off. The ride was uneventful except that every few
minutes the Indian would let out a whoop so loud that it would echo from
the surrounding hills.
When they arrived in town, he let her off at the local service station,
yelled one final, “Yahoo!” and rode off.
“What did you do to get that Indian so excited?” asked the service
station attendant.
“Nothing. I merely sat behind him on the horse, put my arms around his
waist, and held onto his saddle horn so I wouldn’t fall off.”
“Lady,” the attendant said, “Indians ride bareback.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UR1cPAOFBWM
March 2nd, 2008 at 7:42 am
Posted this yesterday, but it is on today’s thread, and I still find it ludicredible that he can say this sort of thing
QUOTE Day 302: 29/02/2008-Friday
It has been a relatively quiet week for us. We did hear from the UK police that the French have officially ruled out the reported sighting of Madeleine in Montpellier. It is disappointing that it took so long, particularly after the widespread coverage the reported sighting received in the media. UNQUOTE
NOT … It is disappointing that it was not Madeleine ! We live in hope every day that someone will find her and return her to us safe and well. Every day without her is a nightmare ………..
No, …it is disappointing that the garlic eating surrender monkey Frogs took so long to prove it wasn’t [Which we already knew, perhaps !]
March 2nd, 2008 at 7:40 am
carmen and karen
yep all very god points
a lot of pr lessons have been learnt in the last 9 month, i feel
is this the first step in the decline of spin
sorry but gotta go
have some fun for me…
fun fun fun
March 2nd, 2008 at 7:40 am
Bye Ade
Carmen
Up late. Still got flu - I’ve only slept 3 hours in the past 3 days. At this rate I’ll be Britney by Tuesday.
Must wrap Mother’s Day Presents!!!
(at least I have them! 
)
March 2nd, 2008 at 7:38 am
So many kids go missing they were always going to look crass once Maddy Mania had subsided. The celebrities should have been savvy enough to link Madeleine to the wider agenda that Gerry always bangs on about but never does anything for.
March 2nd, 2008 at 7:37 am
mornin’ karen
oops doorbell
my lift has arrived
wot just a bentley?
gotta go
bye carmen
bye karen
March 2nd, 2008 at 7:36 am
7 carmen
world ends?
shurely shome mishtake
maybe it’s just the beginning
i still got that leggy piccy
March 2nd, 2008 at 7:34 am
6 carmen
good point
i wonder if their pr “experts” are advising them of same
having just looked into anorak, of course
March 2nd, 2008 at 7:33 am
Class, cuteness, age - Shannon didn’t stand a chance up against Madeleine.
(can I fume about Allison Pearson again - or is it just me who thinks she’s the dumbest, most hypocritical puke-making pointless hack in existence?)
Can’t help myself - Allison Pearson stinks. She writes pure slurry.
March 2nd, 2008 at 7:29 am
bit early for that type of thing but i’m an early riser
i’ll get me coat…
March 2nd, 2008 at 7:28 am
mornin’carmen
late? moi?
nope i have an early start to a long day
have to see a man about an overdue cd ;-(
we will stay out of the pub today
looks like it’s just you and me - as i always imagined
March 2nd, 2008 at 7:26 am
as i have already posted the discrepancies between the two cases in terms of exposure, rewards, help from gordie mcbroon, beardie et al. will not be good for the mcconns.
it’s yet another backlash
and another pr disaster for he who is the comical one
it exposes them for what they are
wonderful sport
March 2nd, 2008 at 7:23 am
bright and early