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 3:29 pm
354
Lone Pigeon Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 3:26 pm
351
irish girl spain Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Right lads, im in a ripping mood (toxic Mcfeckers overload) - anyone
fancy a bikini and bum wax, or an ear and chest wax need to get them out of my system
(ooo can i say bum)
i’ll have a back crack and sack if you don’t mind
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no probs - just but the bit between your teeth, deep breaths and ……….
whoooooosh clunk, smooth as a babys bum
May 1st, 2008 at 3:26 pm
351
irish girl spain Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Right lads, im in a ripping mood (toxic Mcfeckers overload) - anyone
fancy a bikini and bum wax, or an ear and chest wax need to get them out of my system
(ooo can i say bum)
i’ll have a back crack and sack if you don’t mind
May 1st, 2008 at 3:26 pm
343
Saul Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 3:07 pm
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It’s Mayday; old donkeys are usually congratulating themselves on surviving another year…
May 1st, 2008 at 3:24 pm
348
Lone Pigeon Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 3:22 pm
328
chenier Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Seems like the advice is either not getting through or they are just so narrow mindedly naive that they just cannot see what they are coming over as…
Failing that they are just very very ignorant.
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Or some of all three
May 1st, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Right lads, im in a ripping mood (toxic Mcfeckers overload) - anyone
need to get them out of my system 
fancy a bikini and bum wax, or an ear and chest wax
(ooo can i say bum)
May 1st, 2008 at 3:24 pm
348…Lone Pigeon
I think…driven…is apt.
May 1st, 2008 at 3:23 pm
347…brandon flours
The rumblings are becoming louder and more persistent.
May 1st, 2008 at 3:22 pm
328
chenier Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Seems like the advice is either not getting through or they are just so narrow mindedly naive that they just cannot see what they are coming over as…
Failing that they are just very very ignorant.
May 1st, 2008 at 3:12 pm
Val
Is it me or are they trying to show them up?
It seems they are up to something.
Is there a nod and a wink from over there?
May 1st, 2008 at 3:11 pm
Bye Matty
May 1st, 2008 at 3:08 pm
267 Matt
Just saw your post, thanks. That”s a long way from Chaplin”s to their Apartment, probably true then that the OC phoned Chaplins to report crying from 5A and Gerry
had to go back. How can they say publicly on Sky that there was only one time that
Madeleine cried at night.!!!!!!! Sky are repeating parts of the interview every five minutes, even roped in Martin Brunt, who while having to be impartial is definitely
questioning the McCanns refusal to return to Portugal.
May 1st, 2008 at 3:07 pm
Got to go cook and clean so Mr Matty boss man stays happy!!!
Have fun all, TTFN
May 1st, 2008 at 3:07 pm
Eeyore, the old grey Donkey, stood by the side of the stream, and looked at himself in the water.
“Pathetic,” he said. “That’s what it is. Pathetic.”
He turned and walked slowly down the stream for twenty yards, splashed across it, and walked slowly back on the other side. Then he looked at himself in the water again.
“As I thought,” he said. “No better from this side. But nobody minds. Nobody cares. Pathetic, that’s what it is.”
May 1st, 2008 at 3:05 pm
340…brandon flours
He isn’t Mr Big…..I know of the “adoptions”….he may be the agent for
Mr Big…though.
May 1st, 2008 at 3:04 pm
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brandon flours Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Did you see Kates face gurn when she talked about what Maddie said?
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certainly did!!
like a bad TASTE in their feckin mouths when they have to talk about their daughter.
The vibes i get from them is why are we here, a blankness, total lack of any feeling, as if they are above their own self-importance and in denial.
They are fidgety, she says something and looks at him, he looks at her with daggers, sniffin a dreadful smell (something getting up his nose)……
pulling at his ear (doesn’t like what he has just heard (her) saying…)
swallowing a lot (when people lie, their mouths go dry)…..
grinding teeth and jaws together (anger, can’t chew on their (lying) words)…..
sweating on upper lip (anxiety, guilt, lack of sociability, anger, not in control, more anger).
she rubbing his thigh (looking for re-assurance, insecure, same as playing with their wedding ring: not happy in the real world).
putting fingers through hair (brushing something away/aside, under the carpet).
hand constantly on cheek (saying something half-seriously, make belief, non truths, diversions)……all IMO
oh and interrupting each other (bullshit)
for everything else, you need Clarrie (Priceless)
May 1st, 2008 at 3:03 pm
He adopted his kids in america
May 1st, 2008 at 3:02 pm
337…brandon flours
Not presently….am researching re Mr Big.
May 1st, 2008 at 3:01 pm
matty
I have a lot of living to do!
May 1st, 2008 at 3:01 pm
Matt are you watching?
May 1st, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Brandon 333- that would be a foursome, unless of course you’re just goin to watch the boys get it on!!!!
Threesome , foursome, whatever, you go girl!!!!
May 1st, 2008 at 2:59 pm
334…brandon flours
Pacing anxiously ??
May 1st, 2008 at 2:58 pm
just saw clarence walking in sky corridoors
May 1st, 2008 at 2:57 pm
Matty
I am not having a 3 some honest !!!
May 1st, 2008 at 2:55 pm
Brandon- Or all three!!!!
You lucky girl
May 1st, 2008 at 2:55 pm
322…Grande Finale
From the amount of smirking that Dr G P has done on last night’s PR
Failure…and today’s Media Rounds…he seems to think that he has
got every angle covered. I think he is being arrogant having such
a belief and the future will prove it.
Dr K does not seem to be quite so sure of anything.
May 1st, 2008 at 2:55 pm
319
brandon flours Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Oh no, I have been asked to go away for the weekend!
I will miss all the fun!
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OOooooohh! sounds promising
PS don’t forget to lock the doors and windows when going out on the razzle you don’t want to lose any valuables !……………….
Going now catch you all later WOOOoooshhh…….Karate chop!
May 1st, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Tease
Give me a clue!!!!
Hairy!!!
Smooth!!!
Or feathered!!!
May 1st, 2008 at 2:54 pm
307
Lone Pigeon Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 2:32 pm
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I just find it odd that, notwithstanding the vast amounts of PR and legal advice available to the McCanns, they keep saying things which make it obvious that they actually have no genuine interest in child welfare at all.
The stuff with Gerry spouting off about ‘child pornography’ is a very obvious example.
Anyone with the slightest familiarity with the issue is aware that “child pornography” and “child porn” are not acceptable terms.
As the latest report from Internet Watch points out:
‘The use of such language acts to legitimise images which are not pornography, rather, they are permanent records of children being sexually abused and, as such, should be referred to as child sexual abuse images.’
And yet the McCanns go happily on legitimising child sexual abuse images…
May 1st, 2008 at 2:53 pm
When I SAW… sorry
May 1st, 2008 at 2:51 pm
Matty
I shall not reveal!! Client confidentiality