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 10:34 pm
367
pppy Says:
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:32 pm
Lets all be vulgar.
Failing that, lets guess what day the re-interviews will finally take place. I say tomorrow….?
Any takers?
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have i missed something, have the pj arrived then…?
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:34 pm
367 pppy
Everything crossed, they may have already taken place, but thats wishful thinking on my part! Nothing anymore in the presss really
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:33 pm
364
:lol:
WTF
I was talking about real heads going to roll soon
Cheeky you!
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:32 pm
Lets all be vulgar.
Failing that, lets guess what day the re-interviews will finally take place. I say tomorrow….?
Any takers?
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:32 pm
365 pppy
All i can say is WTF! Cheeky sod. Wonder why hes a single dad?
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:31 pm
wtf
I can’t believe he said that has a few issues. He is anti single mums, single working mums and single mums that sponge of benefits. We can refer to spongle mums?
He and I had a falling out over he personally told me I was bringing my children up in a dangerous way, and ha ha ha, that I was common.
The audacity of the little london whippersnapper!
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:30 pm
358 pppy
Good on you, as long as you had a good night to justify the head! Had a quiet day, never really left the sofa, have a bad wisdom tooth which decided to play up, thank god for the vodka, excellent with annadin extra!
Jo, what head are you talking about? Hope your not being vulgar
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:29 pm
342
Gandolf Says:
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:11 pm
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well gandy whatever our differences i am really genuinely sorry to hear about your mother.
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:28 pm
361 Spongebob.
Quite right. Digestive anyone?
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:28 pm
347
pppy
There are many things that people do that might not be the optimum way to lead to lead their life. But what they don’t need is to be beaten with a stick when at the point when their daughter goes missing
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:27 pm
352 Spongebob
Your comment was that what I wrote wasn’t suitable for this site. So I just ask you to write something suitable for this site, rather than lose your time on my comments!
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:27 pm
Just reading through the posts, what is the problem with i cant believe hes not bitter?
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:27 pm
355 WTF
Been childless as boys with father, however, my vodka intake was so bad I have been sofa-ridden all day, with a csi boxset……..
How about you?
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:27 pm
341
pppy Says:
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:10 pm
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you are really sweet pppy….thanks… glad to see you are strong enough to deal with it and you’re coming through the other side. You should be proud of yourself
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:27 pm
353
WTF
You”ve booked a special head?
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:25 pm
hello pppy….HAPPY MOTHERS DAY TO YOU
Hows things, have you had a nice day?
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:25 pm
WTF HELLO!
Happy Mothers Day
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:24 pm
Hello everyone… happy mothers day to all the mothers on the site, and to all the fathers who have been pampering the mothers in the site!
Have they been arrested yet, just popping in to check
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:23 pm
351
Marie Nicholas
Commenting on a comment - is that not what is expected on such a site? You could equally say: If you don’t want a response to a post, then don’t post
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:20 pm
339 Spongebob
If you don’t like my posts, don’t read them, and speak of what is suitable for this site.
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:19 pm
342
Gandolf
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:18 pm
344 Ian
He has not said much, but I saw him leaving Sainsburys Dry Cleaners with about 20
pink shirts over his shoulder. Maybe he’s been catching up on his own dirty washing?
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:18 pm
344
Ian
As far as we all know he has been preparing his defense
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:15 pm
346 spongebob
Didnt you know?
He dresses up as batman and scales large buildings in outrage over what he has to pay the csa
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:13 pm
322
i-dont-believe-them
I’m sure you lead a blameless life
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:12 pm
340 Ian
Lol. I know what you mean.
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:12 pm
Hey, has Clarence said anything lately?
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:12 pm
313 Ian
“Maybe she had a tough time - no money, bad parents herself?”
Of that I am quite sure, Ian, you found the right words to say it.
Had she had a happy, secure background, she wouldn’t have that failure behaviour (I don’t know the English word for it. “Conduite d’échec”), repeating her mistakes with her successive partners. She certainly hasn’t made an easy life for herself. And the social services and police haven’t said she was a bad mother. Why would we, then? She hasn’t done anything wrong.
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:11 pm
RR, as matter of fact I have, my mother died a few weeks ago, but thats my problem, no one elses, life goes on always has always will. Maybe we see things differently, to me my grief is a very private thing, not for consumption on the internet or in any other public arena.
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:10 pm
RR
Hey, its not too bad, I wake up everyday, with my health and my sons, we have a roof over our heads, and my car is paid for. We EVEN have food in the fridge (this week :lol:).
I have a saying that I used to use when I was terribly depressed in those dark old days. It was “the sun rises and the sun sets and anything that happens in between, will happen”
(I think I may have made it up myself, but it sounds quite Elton :roll:)
From what I read you have had a bit of a hard time too, I send you hugs and best wishes.