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
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April 28th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
There has been talk of 70 percent or 80 percent matches. The FSS doesn’t do that. It’s either a match or its not, it’s either significant or it’s not. In this case, it’s significant.”
thats encouraging.
April 28th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
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brandon flours Says:
April 28th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Father Hubbard said: “This was an act of violence and an act of evil but we will continue praying for her.”
What does he mean by that
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Haven’t seen the context (no time) but I assume the “her” was definitely Madeleine (???)
April 28th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
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Pilimary
Yes.I read this in “El Mundo”
For him,”it” is obvious
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brandon flours Says:
April 28th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
The only evidence of violence points to the mc canns doesnt it?
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….and/or others?
April 28th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
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brandon flours Says:
April 28th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Father Hubbard said: “This was an act of violence and an act of evil but we will continue praying for her.”
What does he mean by that????? :shock;
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Did he mention resuscitation as well?
April 28th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
Have you read my post in the other thread? Amaral knew that twins were dopped from the very moment he saw them, sound slept in the middle of the never ending noise of neignbours, friends, policemen, people screaming, etc. Even when somebody took them to another room, they were asleep
April 28th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
The only evidence of violence points to the mc canns doesnt it?
M and A
He just may have meant the disappearance itself was violent?
The only evidence of violence points to the mc canns doesnt it? Not really, as accidental damage can be violent too
April 28th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
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firestar
awwwww…lovey dovey
April 28th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Father Hubbard said: “This was an act of violence and an act of evil but we will continue praying for her.”
What does he mean by that????? :shock;
April 28th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
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Marie Nicholas
A real entrepreneur
I am slowly going mad
April 28th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
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firestar Says:
April 28th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
By 8pm Kate and Gerry were enjoying a bottle of white wine he had bought from the local supermarket. It was a Kiwi Sauvignon Blanc, a favourite from their days in New Zealand.
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how romantic.
shame the kids were alone bawling their heads off while they drank it.
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That isn’t fair.
You know perfectly well that toddlers are unlikely to have developed a palate sufficiently refined to enjoy a Sauvignon Blanc.
They just wouldn’t have appreciated it…
April 28th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
“It’s bound to go for a decent amount and I think you’re talking of at least £500,000. It could go for a million”.
I like the word “decent”, with the figure £500,000 for the memoirs. What could be called “indecent” , let me think.
April 28th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
I knew they knew Bin Laden!
I think M3 said they would bring Madeleine bachk home for Xams but it was Ramadan in fact
April 28th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
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veritablequandary Says:
April 28th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
It would have as much appeal to me as OJ’s “If I Did It”
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Another triumph of the media’s ability to predict the public’s responses…
April 28th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
By 8pm Kate and Gerry were enjoying a bottle of white wine he had bought from the local supermarket. It was a Kiwi Sauvignon Blanc, a favourite from their days in New Zealand.
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how romantic.
shame the kids were alone bawling their heads off while they drank it.
April 28th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
the girl could be under a spell are people making money out of this poor child
April 28th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
17 jo
“It has the potential to be of enormous interest with buyers across the market - from the little middle-class audience who think, ‘This could have been us’ to the mass market who buy books in supermarkets and have been devouring this story for a year.”
Does that idiot assume that all the parents are as bad as the mccanns?
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It would have as much appeal to me as OJ’s “If I Did It”
April 28th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Muslims? Gypsies? Moroccan? Creepymen?
Long live to the WASP (white, anglosaxon, protestant) the only brilliant and dedent people in the world… I m oging to donate for the McCann’s bodygards, the poor things
April 28th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Mummy,” she said, “Why didn’t you come when we were crying last night?” Kate said later: “Gerry and I spoke for a couple of minutes and agreed to keep a closer watch over the children” — which meant more frequent returns from the tapas bar to check on them.
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so the checks were so regular that the twins were crying, stopped crying and all 3 went to sleep between checks and M waited till next morning to tell kate?
hmmm.
April 28th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
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Jo
Reichsmeister Clearance is practically admitting he NEEDS the unwashed masses to make money.
April 28th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
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Firestar
Let’s not forget their perfect mariage
Their perfect “hysterical” kids.
Their perfect finances(and the need to pay their mortgage out of the fund)
edited jj
April 28th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Found this official attributable quote from the head of the PJ.
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jDHfc_HeftshwArv98slDUo35Mxw
April 28th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
“It has the potential to be of enormous interest with buyers across the market - from the little middle-class audience who think, ‘This could have been us’ to the mass market who buy books in supermarkets and have been devouring this story for a year.”
Does that idiot assume that all the parents are as bad as the mccanns?
April 28th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
For the rest of their stay they established a practice of giving the kids tea, playing with them for an hour and then putting them to bed in their apartments before going out to the nearby tapas bar for dinner.
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more fiction
April 28th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
For some reason Gerry looks sombre. “Cheer up Gerry,” a friend jokes, to much laughter. “We’re on holiday.”
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‘fuck off’ said gerry, as i remember
April 28th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
then having casually, selfishly left them at the mercy of a predator.
they got that one right though.
April 28th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
From Daily Mail
CLARENCE ADMITS:
Prime suspects Kate’n Gerry are writing a bestseller for the unwashed masses!
The missing child’s parents,who have participated in an ITV documentary to be broadcast on Wednesday, are officially suspects in the Portuguese investigation but deny any wrongdoing. Mr Mitchell said the couple may write a book about their daughter and their year.
He said: “The idea of writing an official book at some point is appealing. It’s a legitimate way of raising money for the fund but would also give them a chance to put across their side of the story, and to talk about some of the wider issues.”
Scott Pack, a former head of buying for Waterstone’s, said the McCanns’ book would fall into the category of “misery memoir”.
He said: “It’s bound to go for a decent amount and I think you’re talking of at least £500,000. It could go for a million.
“It has the potential to be of enormous interest with buyers across the market - from the little middle-class audience who think, ‘This could have been us’ to the mass market who buy books in supermarkets and have been devouring this story for a year.”
April 28th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
Forensic results? Where from the samples?
Who said that? Where did you read it?
If the PJ gets the bank accounts, they will not tell us yet.
April 28th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
They were seen as having led a privileged life, having effortlessly produced three perfect children
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well, to say the sun article is going to ’sort out the fact from the fiction’,
they have, in just one line of the article, made 2 fictional statements.
unless there was no ivf of course, and M’s eye was perfect.
April 28th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
I’m reading, dear author, I’m reading…
April 28th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Terrorists?
Great!
Christians, Muslims, Jews, Budhists, atheists,
this is becoming interesting.
Where is Clarence by now? He is talking very little, is not he?