Madeleine McCann: Sometimes We Feel Like Giving Up
“SOMETIMES WE JUST FEL LIKE GIVING UP” declares the Mirror “…but Maddie just keeps us going”.
The headline is not, as you might think, an anguished crie de coeur from the paper’s editors. It is, of course, a quote from Kate McCann. The legend at the top of the page reads: “McCANNS 1 YEAR ON”.
Other papers follow suit, with the Sun featuring a 12-page special and pin-up size pictures of “The face we will never forget”.
The Star eschews such tacky emotionalism and goes for a hard news story for its cover: “MUSLIM SICKOS’ MADDIE KIDNAP SHOCK.”
The paper says police are set to investigate a “vile attack on Madeleine McCann’s parents” by Muslim extremists.
What kind of attack? A suicide bomb, perhaps?
No. In a “hysterical rant” on the internet, “fanatics blame the couple for her disappearance”.
All very interesting. But what of the Star’s stablemate, the Maddy Express? What extravaganza are they offering for Day 365? A 28-page special?
Curiously, the front page is bereft of the face we will never forget. Perhaps Express Newspapers have issued a completely separate edition of the paper devoted entirely to all things McCann?
Nope. The newsagents’ shelves are bereft.
We jest, of course. The paper has, as you know, steered clear of the subject since being hammered in court for its scurrilous and exploitative coverage of the case. Coverage that included far from subtle insinuations that the Kate and Gerry McCann were implicated in their daughter’s disappearance. (Not to be confused, we hasten to add, with “hysterical rants” by “fanatics”.)
With no Maddy and no Diana, what is “THE WORLD’S GREATEST PAPER” to do?
Read on, dear reader, read on…
Posted: 28th, April 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann, Tabloids Comments (459) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
Comments
April 28th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
185…just_me
Many thanks, just_me.
Otherwise, no news.
Just waffle and spin.
April 28th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Gandolf, will you be renewing your Amaral Fan Club subscription?
April 28th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
Afternoon All
any news?
Happy Birthday Matt x
April 28th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
183…coolandcalm
I never read books written by Ghostly Figures.
April 28th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
BF I go to 3A’s sometimes! You get a mention, as does Garth, and Chateleine, and Julie…. and of course ME!
Fame at last.
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Benn thinking about offering my services as a ghost writer… several vacancies right now it seems both here and in Portugal.
April 28th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
Why would I be wrong, I have quoted the relevant medical paper you have quoted dickheadpedia, but it does make a matching pair, dickheadpedia and your reverberating arse.
April 28th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
Ouch sounds awful!
April 28th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
179
Lone Pigeon
And know Ive got writers cramp!
April 28th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
177
SteveT Says:
April 28th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Finished the first page of my book!
one down - 999 to go!
April 28th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
174
Ferdinand Says:
April 28th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
135 Salomon ES Says:
” the one thing I’m still not sure about is what is the result that the announcement of Amaral publishing a book will have in POrtugal. ”
Maybe you can explain to me how can this be possible anyway.
Imagine your child gets missing. The police considers the possibility that your are somehow involved, but let’s assume for a moment the prosecutor finally decides not to charge you.
And then comes a former police officer who was removed from the investigation of the case, and cashes in on what he regards as his truth, thereby publishing confidential details of your private life he has got knowledge of as a civil servant.
For me this is beyond comprehension.
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Well, it’s beyond comprehension to me that someone with no information about what would actually be in a book should feel confident enough to announce that the book contains confidential material….
April 28th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Finished the first page of my book!
April 28th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
174…Ferdinand
Perhaps Mr Amaral is thinking ahead, and considering the
future prospects much more than you are presently.
April 28th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
148
Gandolf Says:
April 28th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
I noticed you omitted to mention that the cadaver blood was blood taken from cadavers before the onset of rigour, if you want the full thesis read the medical paper, not wikidikipedia, tosser. grande finale your arse.
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“QUOTE ps……….you don’t get blood from cadavers.”
I know it is hard to admit you are wrong Gandy but practise makes perfect eh!!!!!!!
April 28th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
135 Salomon ES Says:
” the one thing I’m still not sure about is what is the result that the announcement of Amaral publishing a book will have in POrtugal. ”
Maybe you can explain to me how can this be possible anyway.
Imagine your child gets missing. The police considers the possibility that your are somehow involved, but let’s assume for a moment the prosecutor finally decides not to charge you.
And then comes a former police officer who was removed from the investigation of the case, and cashes in on what he regards as his truth, thereby publishing confidential details of your private life he has got knowledge of as a civil servant.
For me this is beyond comprehension.
April 28th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
167
Gandolf Says:
April 28th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Absolutely shocking PMSL, what a way to run a railway, I always enjoyed the pint in the Laurie Arms in Sheperds Bush road.
I enjoy a pint in there sometimes
April 28th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
168
SteveT Says:
April 28th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
163
brandon flours
Yes, but not a moderator!
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Surely moderation in all things…
April 28th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
brandon flours Says:
Why do you want to know ?
April 28th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
166…brandon flours
On 3 A’s ?
No….not as a member….but I do read the posts.
April 28th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
April 28th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
163
brandon flours
Yes, but not a moderator!
April 28th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Absolutely shocking PMSL, what a way to run a railway, I always enjoyed the pint in the Laurie Arms in Sheperds Bush road.
http://www.thesargeants.net/dblog/articolo.asp?articolo=111
April 28th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Matt are you on there?
April 28th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
164 matt
April 28th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
161…wtf
Calm down, calm down…it’s only Commercialism.
April 28th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
stevet
Are you on the 3 As ??
April 28th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Stevet
You are here !!!
April 28th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
159 steve t
It is getting beyond ridiculous!!! They go quiet for a while, then we are bombarded by the bloody lot of them!! Now a book!! They must be stopped, where are the bloody pj? This is going to send me round the twist!
April 28th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Brandon,
I’ve got a Nationwide account.
April 28th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
158
wtf
I cant take much more!
April 28th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
afternoon
So if maddie wandered off, im guessing this is the new spin, what of cuddlecat been put on a shelf, or did she achieve this by herself? What about the fact kate said she knew immediately she had been taken as the bed was hardly disturbed except for a little imprint of maddies foot. How much more crap are we expected to swallow?