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 5:51 pm
oh my god Garth
Didn’t you see it???????
May 1st, 2008 at 5:50 pm
Could you believe he was talking about the fate of his daughter????
May 1st, 2008 at 5:50 pm
they spazzed right out pmsl
May 1st, 2008 at 5:49 pm
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brandon flours Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 5:48 pm
just_me
did you see them in the carpark???
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May 1st, 2008 at 5:49 pm
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Garth Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 5:46 pm
So what have the super sleuths been wingeing over today?
The fact that you haven’t been here…
May 1st, 2008 at 5:49 pm
iIdid yes, I had to rewind sky news after you mentioned it
May 1st, 2008 at 5:48 pm
just_me
did you see them in the carpark???
May 1st, 2008 at 5:46 pm
pmsl - lol spazzing out
May 1st, 2008 at 5:46 pm
So what have the super sleuths been wingeing over today?
May 1st, 2008 at 5:45 pm
484
chenier Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 5:36 pm
477
mary Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 5:29 pm
I am sick of their moaning faces this week-are they ever going to stop blaming every bugger but themselves?
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No.
But I’m cool with that; sooner or later the perpetual whining will alienate the vast majority of the population here.
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Do you mean here on anorak? Ah right!
May 1st, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Is spazzing out a sign of lying?
May 1st, 2008 at 5:44 pm
It was on the news …. will be repeated I am sure!
May 1st, 2008 at 5:42 pm
Shes either alive and out there…. and we need to find her… or she’s not alive…I think thats less likely, but either way we need to find her!!!!
Massive shrug and weird facial expression!!! UNBELIEVABLE !!!
May 1st, 2008 at 5:41 pm
My learned friend LP, if you right click put your cursor on page info, a translate page into English option should appear, it will give you an understandable translation, not 100% perfect but ok.
May 1st, 2008 at 5:39 pm
The moving brigade seems a bit drunk, after boozing for two hours. The TV remote seems to be missing.
syl
lol
May 1st, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Do they get paid for all these tv specials.
) from lastnight.
apart from the 10grand (
Isn’t there any interviewer who can grill them good and proper.
…..
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brandon flours Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 4:45 pm
IGS
How long will it take till the red goes down ????
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a large ‘57 T Bird with Hawaiian plates + crushed ice = guaranteed no redness
May 1st, 2008 at 5:38 pm
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brandon flours Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Did you just see the interview outside in the carpark!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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got a link, brandon?
May 1st, 2008 at 5:38 pm
486
brandon flours Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Did you just see the interview outside in the carpark!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
no - can I get it online?
May 1st, 2008 at 5:37 pm
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Matt. Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 5:33 pm
479…Muddler She Wrote
I’ll lead them by the hand towards the Light…right across to Portugal,
where they should be, if they are honest about trying to “find” Madeleine.
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gosh you’re good! guide them back towards The Light that is Praia da Luz
May 1st, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Did you just see the interview outside in the carpark!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 1st, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Time for eats.
Good sleuthing !!!!
May 1st, 2008 at 5:36 pm
477
mary Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 5:29 pm
I am sick of their moaning faces this week-are they ever going to stop blaming every bugger but themselves?
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No.
But I’m cool with that; sooner or later the perpetual whining will alienate the vast majority of the population here.
Let’s face it, the guy from Colwyn Bay must be pretty pissed off with them already…
May 1st, 2008 at 5:34 pm
on the reconstruction and why they left her
May 1st, 2008 at 5:33 pm
479…Muddler She Wrote
I’ll lead them by the hand towards the Light…right across to Portugal,
where they should be, if they are honest about trying to “find” Madeleine.
May 1st, 2008 at 5:32 pm
477
mary Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 5:29 pm
I am sick of their moaning faces this week-are they ever going to stop blaming every bugger but themselves?
The media are fawning over them as usual but Alison Pearson, for once, was less sympathetic so maybe the tide is turning-about time too.
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mary,
you know you’ve run out of options when you start to blame the buggy, of all things!
May 1st, 2008 at 5:31 pm
Mary
Dermot on sky made them look bad whilst not appearing to be against them
May 1st, 2008 at 5:30 pm
472 brandon flours
475 Matt,
someone needs to light a candle for this poor deluded couple. to show them the way, you know………
May 1st, 2008 at 5:30 pm
474…chenier
The PR attempt is falling apart at the seams….the more they expose
themselves to sensible questioning…they implode.
May 1st, 2008 at 5:29 pm
I am sick of their moaning faces this week-are they ever going to stop blaming every bugger but themselves?
The media are fawning over them as usual but Alison Pearson, for once, was less sympathetic so maybe the tide is turning-about time too.
May 1st, 2008 at 5:29 pm
467
Gandolf Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 5:15 pm
http://dn.sapo.pt/sociedade/ Does not make good reading.
You’re not wrong Gandolf. I couldn’t understand a bloody word of it either..