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 10:55 pm
398
Ian
…..or : WHY did we have tubes kids?
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:55 pm
371 Spongebob
You can think all you want of my posts! And say all you want!
I read your posts with interest, and see if I can learn something from them.
Some times I try to reply in the same tone.
We all are free to say what we think, aren’t we?
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:50 pm
339
SpongeBob
The McCanns might benefit from some wisdom from other parents, they are clearly new to the role and having lost one daughter - they need to take a bit better care of the other two kids.
Maybe start by spending quality time with htem and saving a bit of money by cutting down on nannies and creches - no I dont mean leaving them in rooms alone!
I expect the only learning they took from this was ‘wish we’d locked the door’?
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:49 pm
396m pppy
You will have to mine has all gone, all in the name of pain relief of course!
Now im really gone….. woosh clunk
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:48 pm
393 WTF
Well at least we will be together. I will bring the vodka
x night
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:48 pm
394 jo
Goodnight x
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:47 pm
Pppy
WTF
Good nite to u 2
Lets see whats in the non-news tomorrow
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:47 pm
390 pppy
God! Will mods and admin ban us?
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:46 pm
388 pppy
Mine usually ends up on the pillow!
Goodnight
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Pppy
WTF
Between us the mcFools are also classified under the same specie
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:45 pm
wtf
People will talk - we can’t go to bed together!
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:45 pm
thats me folks,off to bed now, sweet dreams everyone, and lets hope tomorrow brings us the news we have been waiting for
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:44 pm
I had better go too, I need to apply a lot of time to removing last nights eye makeup. Its been bugging me all day, especially the glittery bits, but I couldn’t be bothered to go upstairs and take it off.
Wish I could just make it disappear…..
Night all, see you tomorrow, maybe some news….
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:43 pm
Gandolf
Dont understand what your saying half the time, but so sorry to hear about your mother
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:43 pm
381
Pppy
I wouldnt have a clue.
I am in spain and could call M3 ?
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:42 pm
383 Jo
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:42 pm
383 jo
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:41 pm
374
WTF
He was already bitter but then his wife didnt know.During the course of their marriage she realised to her sheer horror she had married a bitter troll and then left him.
Specie :the losers
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:40 pm
379
WTF Says:
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:39 pm
goodnight rr
************
no doubt i’ll probably be back later……take care
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:39 pm
Jo
Are the paps/media still up in Rothley?
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:39 pm
376
pppy Says:
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:37 pm
379 rr
No, but they may be on sleasyjet this very minute…..drum roll………I am surmising, its fun.
PS. Having watched 9 CSI’s back to back, I now feel ready to offer my services to the PJs. My westie pup Dylan can sniff out a tripe twist at 100 ft so he may also be of use.
see you later PPPY im going for a walk… 
*************
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:39 pm
goodnight rr
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:38 pm
377 RR
Night babes. Sweet dreams.
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:38 pm
See you later guys……
If Ciara checks in please ask her to text me…thanks 
keep smiling everyone 
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:37 pm
379 rr
No, but they may be on sleasyjet this very minute…..drum roll………I am surmising, its fun.
PS. Having watched 9 CSI’s back to back, I now feel ready to offer my services to the PJs. My westie pup Dylan can sniff out a tripe twist at 100 ft so he may also be of use.
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:37 pm
367
Pppy
Dont think so…. also when it happens I believe the media wont know about it.
If not then rothley will be full of parasites I mean paparazzi and then we will know somethin is going to happen or is happening…..
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:36 pm
373 pppy
Has he gone? Sounds like a troll to me, not nice to post those things. His ex must have left him very bitter indeed!
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:35 pm
366 wtf
Dont know, he sounds like a right catch!
I have found co-drydamol a lot more effective than annadin, although, as I am a spongle mum, surely heroin is what I should be using for pain relief in the stereotypical world of “what not to believe or whatever he is called”
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:35 pm
368 jo
Sorry, just my dirty mind!
Now have image of rolling heads 
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:34 pm
360
Marie Nicholas
I written on on this site on numerous occasions.
Should I consider your posts beyond reproach?