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 2:24 pm
jo 282- thanks for that!
Interesting interview with M3 bloke on 30/04/08
Amongst other things he mentions all the media attention is down to Kate and Madeleines looks and if they had been ugly they wouldn’t have got so much attention
May 1st, 2008 at 2:23 pm
293
brandon flours Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 2:22 pm
lone
Can I stroke you gently?
yeah ….oh go on just there again…….ahhhh ….lovely
May 1st, 2008 at 2:22 pm
lone
Can I stroke you gently?
May 1st, 2008 at 2:21 pm
276
Gandolf Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 2:09 pm
In the real world the FSS don’t take forever to analise results, or produce their findings.
Huntley was charged two days after being arrested.
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Gandolf, in the real world the FSS did precisely that, as it states on its own website:
‘After thousands of hours of painstaking work over a 14-month period and working to very tight deadlines’.
So we have a choice; do we believe the FSS itself, or do we believe Gandolf…
http://www.forensic.gov.uk/forensic_t/inside/news/list_casefiles.php?case=21
May 1st, 2008 at 2:21 pm
248 PeterMac
Martin Brunt has just been commenting to Kay Burley.
The PJ want the reconstruction to be private but the McCanns want a Crimewatch
type one. Bound to be speculation by the public as to why they refuse to go back
to assist the PJ whom they say are doing nothing.
Also, arguido status could last several years, a person applied after 5 years to have
the stated lifted, but was refused.!!!!!!!!
Also a reference to the McCanns hiring Extradition Lawyers immediately on their
return to the U.K., ” why would they feel the need to do this”.
Seems as though this latest ploy will sink like a lead balloon.!!!!!!!
May 1st, 2008 at 2:21 pm
sounds like a looker outerer to me!!
Remember the CCTV of 3 men and one smoking a fag.
May 1st, 2008 at 2:19 pm
286
Lone Pigeon
Absolutely right
They are taking the piss
I am more and more enclined to believe they are seriously deranged
May 1st, 2008 at 2:18 pm
271…matty
I would have thought that the noise from his Jet-Pack would have been
a bit of a giveaway. IMO
May 1st, 2008 at 2:17 pm
272
just_me
You too much
May 1st, 2008 at 2:17 pm
276
Gandolf Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 2:09 pm
In the real world the FSS don’t take forever to analise results, or produce their findings.
Huntley was charged two days after being arrested
This ain’t the Huntley case tho is it. It’s the mccanns case and regardless of whether they get charged or not THEM and THEM only are directly responsible for the fact that their little girl went missing.
They claim that there was no information available to tell them that it wouldn’t be safe to leave their children alone. These are Gerrys words at Midday.
SINCE FUCKIN WHEN DO YOU NEED TO BE TOLD THAT IT AIN’T SAFE TO LEAVE THREE BABIES ALONE WHILE YOU GO DOWN THE BOOZER??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
May 1st, 2008 at 2:15 pm
271 matty
I wonder if she meant hoovering rather than hovering.
May 1st, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Matty,Brandon
Spin for sure and easy for the PJ to check directly because of their OWN network and “informers”
May 1st, 2008 at 2:12 pm
just-me 272- you are sooooo funny!!!! LOL
May 1st, 2008 at 2:12 pm
Did you read this? “The mystery begins at 18:30h, 01 May 2008″
When is it going to end?
http://www.mccannfiles.com/id79.html
May 1st, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Jo
Dont forget the friendly family liason officer!!!
May 1st, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Jo 273- could this be the young girl who popped out for a sly ciggie and saw something, can’t remember what, think her name was given out at the time?
Seem to have a lot of people to give the PJ info
May 1st, 2008 at 2:10 pm
just_me
May 1st, 2008 at 2:10 pm
265
val
There are many more “important witnesses”,we know nothing about.Well kept apart.
This is a SMALL place,portuguese know each others and their families.There are related more or less to each other.They know
May 1st, 2008 at 2:09 pm
cool and calm
only if you fill it in on your profile I think
M and A
Thats for the initial email, after that it does show
May 1st, 2008 at 2:09 pm
In the real world the FSS don’t take forever to analise results, or produce their findings.
Huntley was charged two days after being arrested.
May 1st, 2008 at 2:08 pm
272 - me - now we know who gave them the christmas card!
May 1st, 2008 at 2:07 pm
I havn’t got Sky news at home. Does anyone know if you can watch the Mcs interview on the Sky news site? Just had a look in videos and it’s not there, is there a time delay before it is listed? Cheers!!!
May 1st, 2008 at 2:07 pm
271
matty
“She was quizzed by police in the UK and her new statements passed to Portuguese detectives.”
Her NEW statements?
Identity NOT revealed …
May 1st, 2008 at 2:06 pm
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj15/just_meme5/cardcopy.jpg
May 1st, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Sorry if this has already been posted
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1314686,00.html
May 1st, 2008 at 2:03 pm
BF… I understood that you can mail from 3a’s site and stay anonymous but if you reply then you’re sending from your own email addy and can’t hide it.
Anyone else know if this correct?
M and A
That is usual with the format 3A’s use, the other thing is set up a googlemail addy
May 1st, 2008 at 2:02 pm
has my heroes been back lately? Wondering whether they got through to Clarence or not ??
Mand A
Not planning on letting My heroes back…do you think she will find Clarence anyway?
May 1st, 2008 at 2:01 pm
They are throwing in the bull shit to make the grass grow to cover the tracks. They forget that grass mowers wear anoraks
May 1st, 2008 at 1:59 pm
265…val
Chaplin’s, approx 600-700 yds.
May 1st, 2008 at 1:58 pm
Firestar… no BTYahoo via IE (I think!)
Have gone into docs and they come up when I click favourites but still not in bookmarks. But at tleast they are there……. can I send them over to bookmarks?
(apologies to Anorak for off topic!)