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 1:14 pm
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Dr Watson
“Who else has comfort overeaten yesterday?…”
It was like an endurance test. After approx 5000kcal in 20mins, had to stop watching because couldn’t eat any more!
May 1st, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Anyhow….
‘Why Didn’t We Take The Kids That Night?’
….it shows they thought about it for half a second and forgot all about it in the other half.
Good parenting,I would say
Have I missing somethin” about the “Campaign for Changes”?
Which “campaign”? Fund raising?
Which “changes” ?
May 1st, 2008 at 1:10 pm
157…Noseycow
Don’t worry about me.
I was her long-haired lover from Ullapool…but soon regained my senses.
May 1st, 2008 at 1:10 pm
I can’t wait until that book comes out that tells about the forces involved and the players in the game.
May 1st, 2008 at 1:07 pm
brandon flours,
How modest…
May 1st, 2008 at 1:07 pm
well it’s a lovely May day here in the UK at present
May 1st, 2008 at 1:07 pm
I just had a long cream and jam willy donut
May 1st, 2008 at 1:06 pm
http://chocolateandzucchini.com/archives/2005/05/1er_mai_fete_du_muguet.php
Lovely little plant
May 1st, 2008 at 1:06 pm
I’m trying to follow the yesterrday’s interview on You Tube but its sound is very bad.
It sounds that the couple an interviewer are talking with their mouths under a very thick pillow’
Or like an old illegal video, coming from the Third World.
May 1st, 2008 at 1:05 pm
Who else has comfort overeaten yesterday? Or only me?
May 1st, 2008 at 1:04 pm
192
if only…
may as well…
red balloons is all the rise we’ll ever have
May 1st, 2008 at 1:04 pm
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1314650,00.html
The parents of missing Madeleine McCann have been interviewed live on Sky News as the first anniversary of their daughter’s disappearance approaches.
Kate and Gerry McCannKate and Gerry, who remain formal suspects in the case, spoke to Dermot Murnaghan. Click here to refresh the page and read their latest comments:
Gerry - We have had tremendous support but something like this could destroy you. It has wreaked havoc.
Kate - Our other children have a normal life, they’re fantastic.
Gerry - The worse thing about going over and over and over this is we can’t change this.
Gerry - No reason to think there was any danger. Would never have left her if there was.
Kate - Answered this so many times but I felt it was incredibly safe (to leave her alone). Love Madeleine, would never have taken a risk.
Gerry - You remain arguido (suspect), which is similar to being interviewed under caution in UK, until someone is charged or file no longer under judicial secrecy. Normal situation in Portugal. We want to know what’s been done, what hasn’t, who has been eliminated from investigation and why. We need to know.
Gerry - Reconstruction in Portugal under discussion. What additional information to help the search for Madeleine would be gained by it?
Gerry - We want responsible reporting. There’s too much rumour, myth and innuendo.
Kate - No text book on what to do when child gets taken. Would have liked to stay out of media but we have to do this. You don’t see the bad side of what can come and all the horrible press.
Gerry: She could easily have been moved out of Portugal. Amber Alert system saves lives.
Gerry: Number of children have been recovered when people have given up. Can’t give up until know who took her and why.
Kate - Nothing to say Madeleine not out there. Many children found years down the line - we cannot give up, Madeleine deserves that. Madeleine needs us to find her.
Gerry - For us to rest we need to know, to make sure everything’s being done. Want to ask people to call in on new hotline number with any information. Desperate for leads, we cannot give up.
Kate - Only one reason why we’re in the media and that’s to appeal for information. A year on but she’s still missing”
A few things to pick up
May 1st, 2008 at 1:03 pm
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just_me Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 12:59 pm
hi IGS one is very well thank-you, hope one is also well
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Absolutely dahhhhhhling, one is in feckin great nick innit
Albeit, one has been soooooo chuckling as of last night and this morning, on the telly darling……. has two been to RADA sweetie darling, one wonders, and the OSCAR goes to………………………………..
May 1st, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Today is the Solidarity of Working People day! “Workers of all countries, unite!” Shall we celebrate with red balloons?
May 1st, 2008 at 1:00 pm
and drop him in the Bermuda Triangle?
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I think that only happens if you are trying to raise funds for a lorry drivers rest stop…
And Pope 1 is in flight at the time…
May 1st, 2008 at 1:00 pm
I think hes been nicked
May 1st, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Pink balloons would be lovely! I will personally send Clarrie some busty Barbies!
May 1st, 2008 at 12:59 pm
hi IGS
one is very well thank-you, hope one is also well
May 1st, 2008 at 12:58 pm
Maravilha
Cos shes fucking crazy !!!
May 1st, 2008 at 12:58 pm
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just_me Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 12:55 pm
groomers and gypsies omg
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tis the feckin way forward tho innit.
now we need tramps and thieves
(hi just me - hope one is well and happy)
May 1st, 2008 at 12:58 pm
Was MADDIE crying,they say she was not crying when being checked,but then say’s “If maddie had not been abucted ,we would never have thought of it again,but with hindsight “So was she crying or not? Why tell the police ,after all they have said she was not crying. Really every interview is the same ,just differant studio.I noticed at the beging Kate voice sounded alittle wobberly IMO
May 1st, 2008 at 12:57 pm
I ask myself what kind of clues or even evidence the PJ have that they are thinking that the accident was caused by Kate and not by Gerry or by both parents together.
They seem to concentrate on her.Why?
May 1st, 2008 at 12:55 pm
groomers and gypsies omg
May 1st, 2008 at 12:55 pm
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JuneJohnson Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Does anyone think they’ll setup a Clarence Fund, and pink bracelets and balloons……
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I’m all in favour.
Provided we can attach him to the balloons and launch him from Brazil…
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and drop him in the Bermuda Triangle?
May 1st, 2008 at 12:54 pm
Irish - I think a nice pair of firm thighs might just swing it…
laters all
x
May 1st, 2008 at 12:54 pm
hahahahahahah lol
May 1st, 2008 at 12:54 pm
178 or feathers for justice!
May 1st, 2008 at 12:53 pm
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Noseycow Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Irish ROTFL
Watch oout ade - i feel some grooming coming on…
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I noooooooo, it’s gotta be done tho innit dahhhhling (spoken in me best norf london accent tho) IMO etc…
must get me bullworker out for him
May 1st, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Brandon - will watch out for it.
Going to get those over ripe tomatoes from the fridge ready..
May 1st, 2008 at 12:52 pm
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JuneJohnson Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Does anyone think they’ll setup a Clarence Fund, and pink bracelets and balloons……
If they do then that will be the final straw for me. I will personally protest in the house of commons - fathers for justice styleee