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 5:27 pm
471…Muddler She Wrote
They just fall apart…literally…when asked searching questions.
Dr K…re Madeleine remonstrating…”Not just to me by the way”.
May 1st, 2008 at 5:25 pm
461
Matt. Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 5:12 pm
457…chenier
Obviously thinks it’s the “thing to do”.
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I wish you hadn’t typed that.
I’ve now got ‘I’m in with the In Crowd’ refusing to be deleted from my mind.
One thing which has struck me is that, however much fun the McCanns are having on the wall to wall media fest, they are never going to get what they really, really want.
Instead of ‘Madeleine the Movie’ they’ve got a famous director’s daughter’s appallingly bad attempt at a documentary.
No famous director.
Do you remember Clarrie talking about how much fun it would be casting people for the parts?
Apparently oblivious to the fact that the mere idea of having fun casting a movie about a real little girl vanishing was stomach turning.
There will never be a movie.
The McCanns will never have dinner with Brangelina.
And I suspect that will eat K&G from the inside out…
May 1st, 2008 at 5:25 pm
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coolandcalm Says:
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?
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yes you can, you need to edit the registry.
either get my hotmail from m&a then email me and i’ll go through it on msn with you,
or if you can’t i’ll make you a file that will do it for you.
you’ll need to be careful though if you use the file, and do exactly as i tell you or you’ll end up having to do another system restore.
i’ll be about later this evening.
May 1st, 2008 at 5:24 pm
muddler
They give it all away.
May 1st, 2008 at 5:23 pm
‘Look into my eyes (sic) you will find / there’s nothing there to hide…’
a rewrite of Bryan Adams’ “Everything I Do (I Do It For You)” just for the occasion
look at this. i hope it makes sense to you http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFpmLwS2FEE
well done Kate!
May 1st, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Maybe better . http://dn.sapo.pt/2008/05/01/sociedade/judiciaria_perde_operacionalidade.html
May 1st, 2008 at 5:19 pm
The most senior officer responsible for tracing missing children in England and Wales effectively ruled out introducing an “amber alert” system.
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Deputy Assistant Commissioner Richard Bryan said there is no need for UK forces to adopt the American system of immediate information broadcasts.
The officer, who is the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) lead on missing people, said forces already operate an effective “child rescue alert”.
Mr Bryan said police would rather use other investigative techniques to trace children before going public and potentially alerting abductors.
But he admitted that guidelines may be too strict as only three alerts have been issued in the past five years.
Mr Bryan added that introducing such a system on mainland Europe would have its merits, but there are substantial legislative hurdles.
His comments will come as a blow to Kate and Gerry McCann as they campaign for a Europe-wide quick response system to help find abducted children. Their daughter Madeleine disappeared a year ago from a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal.
France is the only country to have introduced alerts along American lines, with a similar but less well-established scheme in Belgium.
Mr Bryan said the McCanns are doing a “sterling job” in raising the issue of how police deal with child abductions.
He said: “I welcome the McCann’s pressing for an amber alert. People need to realise we have got a version of amber alert in the UK - child rescue alert. That has been in place since 2003 in Sussex and it was rolled out nationally by 2006. We have only had to use it on three occasions.”
May 1st, 2008 at 5:17 pm
Bye Nosey
May 1st, 2008 at 5:15 pm
http://dn.sapo.pt/sociedade/ Does not make good reading.
May 1st, 2008 at 5:14 pm
bye nosey
May 1st, 2008 at 5:14 pm
Chenier
It’s a far far braver thing that I do now…
laters all
x
May 1st, 2008 at 5:13 pm
Chenier and Nosey
May 1st, 2008 at 5:12 pm
brandon not the wothley neglectors?
May 1st, 2008 at 5:12 pm
457…chenier
Obviously thinks it’s the “thing to do”.
M and A
Your Derek Bentley link had gone into spam, cleared now
May 1st, 2008 at 5:11 pm
456
Noseycow Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 5:10 pm
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I am going outside and I may be some time…
May 1st, 2008 at 5:11 pm
be careful nosey
May 1st, 2008 at 5:10 pm
453
Matt. Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 5:09 pm
Emma Loach admitted to Gaunty that she left her 3 and 5 year olds
alone in her Hotel Room….to go and eat/socialise in the Hotel
Restaurant.
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Now that takes real stupidity.
First for doing it, and second for admitting it…
May 1st, 2008 at 5:10 pm
They’re on Johnathon Ross on Friday
May 1st, 2008 at 5:10 pm
Going to brave the barn and see if its possible to get more than 3 feet inside the door.
There are loads of the kids old toys in there - perfect for the playgroup May fayre…
If I don’t reappear then it was lovely meeting you all…
May 1st, 2008 at 5:09 pm
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Noseycow Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 5:08 pm
WAX
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O, buggy!
May 1st, 2008 at 5:09 pm
ummmmm nosey!!!!
May 1st, 2008 at 5:09 pm
Emma Loach admitted to Gaunty that she left her 3 and 5 year olds
alone in her Hotel Room….to go and eat/socialise in the Hotel
Restaurant.
May 1st, 2008 at 5:08 pm
WAX
May 1st, 2008 at 5:08 pm
what about massage oil? can we talk about that then?
May 1st, 2008 at 5:08 pm
Matt
Yes
http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aV10C_US
May 1st, 2008 at 5:07 pm
444
val Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 5:03 pm
This thread is starting to sound like a love-in!!!!!!
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As long as no-one mentions wax again we should be ok…
May 1st, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Gerry Haliwell just made Kate look like a terrible mother
May 1st, 2008 at 5:05 pm
♫ ♫ ♫ ♫–GOOD LUCK ON YOUR MOVE PILIMARY ♫ ♫ ♫ ♫ ♫ ♫
May 1st, 2008 at 5:04 pm
442…brandon flours
Was that the screwed up suffering type face ?
May 1st, 2008 at 5:04 pm
Pilimary - good luck