Madeleine McCann: No Change, A Tourist Site And Entertainment
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
THE GUARDIAN: “Last night’s TV: Madeleine, One Year On: Campaign for Change”
It’s difficult to keep the visuals stimulating, too. We saw the McCanns at home in Leicestershire; Kate and Jerry talking on the sofa. But you can’t have two hours of sofa, so we joined them in a lot of taxis - in Portugal, London, Washington. And there were plenty of lingering tree shots - leafless, winter trees (this is a sad story, after all). And a flying heron … eh, what’s that about? Maybe the heron is an aguido, too. Does Sir Trevor know?
DAILY MAIL: “Madeleine holiday apartment becomes ’sick tourist attraction’ one year on from her disappearance”
Coachloads of journalists arrive every day. It’s sick.
DAILY MIRROR: “Tourists posing for pictures at McCann tragedy spots”
Pensioner Pamela Fenn, who lives above the McCanns’ holiday apartment, said: “It’s sick.
“They stand outside and then have photographs taken with their children.”
A source close to the McCanns said yesterday: “It’s disgraceful.”
It’s not as if the disappearance of a missing child is entertaining.
The floodlights at Premiership club Everton will be switched on this Saturday to mark the anniversary in a campaign called Light The Way Home.
LIVERPOOL ECHO: “Madeleine McCann: Family prepare for first anniversary of her disappearance”
People around the world are being urged to light a candle, shine a torch or turn on a porch lamp on Saturday night as a gesture of support for Madeleine’s family and friends.
A lighter held in the air?
Robert Murat, the third arguido in the case, is intending to maintain a low profile and will probably stay away from Praia da Luz on Saturday.
He said: “The anniversary is for a little girl who went missing - Madeleine.
“The anniversary is not about us, the McCanns, the PJ (Portuguese detectives) or anything else but a little girl going missing.”
THE TIMES: “Madeleine, One Year On: Campaign for Change; Escape from Alcatraz: The True Story”
Stefanie Marsh: Why must television do compassion? Why, when faced with a captive audience, a prime-time slot and a story that could, if they’d let it, tell itself, must television turn to mush and mutate into a series of treacly Hallmark bereavement cards?…
At one point Gerry McCann admits that his “wife is carrying on in a quasi-real existence”. What she is really doing is falling apart, but too much gloop from the director turned the McCanns’ terrible situation into a guilt trip that made me want to watch The Apprentice instead.
THE INDEPENDENT: “Last Night’s TV: Madeleine, One Year On: Campaign for Change ITV1″
“You can’t always blame the parents,” says Thomas Stucliffe:
They still get a lot of letters, the McCanns, sorting them out into boxes marked “well-wishers”, “ideas”, “psychics” and “nutty”. Incredibly, they also need a box marked “nasty” for messages such as the one that Gerry read out at the beginning of the film. “How can you use money given by poor people in good faith to pay your mortgage on your mansion? You fucking thieving bastards. Your brat is dead because of your drunken arrogance. Shame on you. I curse you and your family to suffer forever. Cursed Christmas. If you had any shame, you would accept full responsibility for your daughter’s disappearance and give all the money back. You are scum.” This heart-warming expression of support had been written inside a Christmas card. The Daily Express, by contrast, chose to print its hate mail on its own front page, confident that there were enough readers out there who would prefer infanticide to unresolved mystery – or to no McCann story at all. And all the time, the McCanns themselves live a life horribly suspended between what might have been and what could happen next, between “if only” and “maybe”.
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May 1st, 2008 at 12:41 pm
Hi Lone xxxxx mwahxxxxxxx
May 1st, 2008 at 12:41 pm
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Noseycow Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 12:36 pm
Pikey
I am a nosey cow but sometimes I suffer from CBA syndrome.
Particularly about posters identities
well you CBA to answer me couldnt you? i dont really care anyway it wasnt me that was questioning who i am was it ??? i still dont see the need for chenier to jump on me like that… miserable sod, i wasnt even talking to her
and i thought we were friends nosey…suit yourself
May 1st, 2008 at 12:40 pm
gerry won’t answer the question - he’s bullshitting
May 1st, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Brandon - i don’t have sky… what they saying??
May 1st, 2008 at 12:40 pm
go on dermot!
May 1st, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Matt - curioser and curioser…
Does she own a divan??
we should be trolled…
(thanks ade)
May 1st, 2008 at 12:39 pm
the sky fellas asking good questions
May 1st, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Time to give my calorie count an update.
Good sleuthing !!!!
May 1st, 2008 at 12:37 pm
126…Noseycow
I always get in trouble with anything to do with Mother-in-Laws.
Meant Mrs Healey….Dr G P’s Mum has been exceptionally quiet, I agree.
May 1st, 2008 at 12:37 pm
Irish - have had mine for years
but there is always a sale at DFS 
As for K’s outfits - i thought you had more taste.
May 1st, 2008 at 12:36 pm
Pikey
I am a nosey cow but sometimes I suffer from CBA syndrome.
Particularly about posters identities.
May 1st, 2008 at 12:36 pm
just voted for the gay fella
May 1st, 2008 at 12:35 pm
hi Nosey
122
Noseycow Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Irish - they are lovely - and the covers come off and fit in two loads in your washing machine. Mine came with a free extra set of covers - so we go from teracotta to yellow depending on my mood. Saves decorating costs!
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;-) 
;-)
Is the sale still on
…and i want those earrings (all 6 pairs of them), and that beige top, and that white jacket, and the pink top, and the name of the product to make your hair look manky. oh and whatever she was on IMO etc etc… oh and the music soundtrack, great for any wakes and funerals
May 1st, 2008 at 12:35 pm
109…val
I think that it was two different scenarios which have become “merged”.
J Gaunt was livid this morning regarding their leaving the children more
often than he had previously thought.
Then he had an ex-policeman on his show this morning…who said that
the Mccann’s should get of the sofa and got to Portugal and help in
a proper manner.
The two scenarios seem to have got “muxed tip” together.
May 1st, 2008 at 12:35 pm
118
Noseycow Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Chenier 116 - agreed
i was only answering lp question and any way your a nosey cow so how can you say that ???
May 1st, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Val - the ex copper was the one who put away Jamie Bulgers killers.
He said that the children had been repprted as crying on more than one occasion ( we know of 2 - Mrs Fenn and K reports).
He also said that the McC’s should not be doing the rounds of the tv studios, instead they should get on a plane and return to portugal to help the pj with the reconstruction.
If only i could do one of glorias cartwheels. sigh..
May 1st, 2008 at 12:33 pm
116
chenier Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 12:25 pm
114
pikey Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 12:18 pm
… who am i well thats the question none of you sleuths seem to be able to answer… all will be revealed in the goodness of time…
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Point of information:
Most of us sleuths don’t give a toss…
its off again…you really should just ignore me then Chenier
why do get so angry about it mate ???
May 1st, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Matt
sorry
Who’s been unquiet lately?? I still haven’t heard anything from G’s mum…
May 1st, 2008 at 12:30 pm
116 Matt
Hi there, how are you?
I answered Steve T on post 109 and asked about the ex-copper, he hasn”t answered,
presume he is posting from work and that”s why he disappears!!!!!!!!
Can you help? Just starting, questiontime on SkyNews.
May 1st, 2008 at 12:30 pm
on sky now
May 1st, 2008 at 12:30 pm
121…Noseycow
I meant the term ….loosely….as in Mother-in-Law et al.
But point taken….
She has unquietened herself recently though….and very critical of net
posters…although she has previously said that she never uses the Internet.
May 1st, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Irish - they are lovely - and the covers come off and fit in two loads in your washing machine. Mine came with a free extra set of covers - so we go from teracotta to yellow depending on my mood. Saves decorating costs!
May 1st, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Matt - lovey ! Ms Healy is not Kates mother - in - law.
Actually K’s mother in law has been particularly quiet on the whole affair. Has someone searched in her divan?
May 1st, 2008 at 12:27 pm
The only interesting thing last night (IMO, alledgely etc etc) were the constant shots of the red sofa….DFS no doubt sponsored it……
I WANT ONE….!!!!
so i can relax on it, watch more McShite stuff and give my Lily White Irish ‘ARSE’ the comfort it deserves….
and as for G’s hairy stubbly ears and chest…. :huge puke: gross
May 1st, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Did any one else pick this up from last night”Ididn’t cook a meal,I just couldn’t.How can I hang washing up,when my daughter is missing”!!!!!Strange it did not bother her on the panorama programe hanging washing out then? But maybe it could throw light on eddie & keela smelling somthing on Kate’s clothe’sIMO
May 1st, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Chenier 116 - agreed
May 1st, 2008 at 12:25 pm
94…Lurker
What does you expect ?
A Mother-in Law who calls posters “cretins” when they question her daughter’s
excuses and allegations ???
Is about time she actually questioned her daughter herself….with seriously
probing questions…after all it’s about her missing Grandchild who she boasts
of loving so much.
Not to do so is an insult to Madeleine.
May 1st, 2008 at 12:25 pm
114
pikey Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 12:18 pm
… who am i well thats the question none of you sleuths seem to be able to answer… all will be revealed in the goodness of time…
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Point of information:
Most of us sleuths don’t give a toss…
May 1st, 2008 at 12:20 pm
“Nasty for the sake of being nasty…full of venom…” -
funny when I heard this description, I suddenly thought of all my old acquaintances on anorak.
May 1st, 2008 at 12:19 pm
114
pikey
Rock and Roll pikey!