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 6:05 pm
Pleasure Lone - a gent everytime
May 1st, 2008 at 6:04 pm
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irish girl spain Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 6:03 pm
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Lone Pigeon Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 6:01 pm
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Lone Pigeon Says:
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On seconds thoughts don’t tell me. I don’t wanna know….
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we doooo we doooo
Night irish
Thanks for the service
May 1st, 2008 at 6:03 pm
See you Lone !!!
xxx
May 1st, 2008 at 6:03 pm
527
Lone Pigeon Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 6:01 pm
525
Lone Pigeon Says:
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On seconds thoughts don’t tell me. I don’t wanna know….
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we doooo we doooo
May 1st, 2008 at 6:03 pm
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Jez Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Shameful that Fern allowed GM to get away with the “50 yards” Tapas distance on ‘This Morning’. Countered, however, by GMs admission that they had indeed been away dining elsewhere (Chaplins) on another evening. This had never been confirmed before.
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Jez
Go and put that fez back on ………….. just like that!
May 1st, 2008 at 6:02 pm
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brandon flours Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 6:01 pm
Out at the comedy club tonight, night everyone!
Gotta get a few beers down first!
seeeeee ya
I’m orf too - train to catch
May 1st, 2008 at 6:01 pm
Out at the comedy club tonight, night everyone!
Gotta get a few beers down first!
May 1st, 2008 at 6:01 pm
520
Garth Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 5:57 pm
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brandon flours Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 5:53 pm
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Is that it? Cheers anyway but i thought you going to say RR had been caught humping Ian in the back seat of a car of summat!
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I thought it couldn’t go downhill after the wax.
I was wrong…
May 1st, 2008 at 6:01 pm
525
Lone Pigeon Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 6:00 pm
520
Garth Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 5:57 pm
511
brandon flours Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 5:53 pm
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Is that it? Cheers anyway but i thought you going to say RR had been caught humping Ian in the back seat of a car of summat!
Only in your mind Garth could you think of something soooooo revolting. Do you whack off to Gerry on sky too?
On seconds thoughts don’t tell me. I don’t wanna know.
May 1st, 2008 at 6:00 pm
Thanks!!!
Now I would like to thank my parents and friends, the producer, the team…
razz:
May 1st, 2008 at 6:00 pm
520
Garth Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 5:57 pm
511
brandon flours Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 5:53 pm
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Is that it? Cheers anyway but i thought you going to say RR had been caught humping Ian in the back seat of a car of summat!
Only in your mind Garth could you think of something soooooo revolting. Do you whack off to Gerry on sky too?
May 1st, 2008 at 6:00 pm
Garth
perv!
Jez
Did you see ferns face though? and dermots?
May 1st, 2008 at 6:00 pm
Anything else of interest?
Or is it another case of saddos just whinging as usual? ……….and i dont mean the McCanns.
…….. just in case the odd one or two got a little confused.
May 1st, 2008 at 5:59 pm
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chenier Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 5:57 pm
May 1st, 2008 at 5:58 pm
Pilimary
((((((((((((((((((( “♫- Clap Clap clap “♫- ))))))))))))))))))))))))))
May 1st, 2008 at 5:57 pm
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brandon flours Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 5:53 pm
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Is that it? Cheers anyway but i thought you going to say RR had been caught humping Ian in the back seat of a car of summat!
May 1st, 2008 at 5:57 pm
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Gandolf Says:
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.
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That’s kind of you, but
http://youtube.com/watch?v=_SOh6mSEZss
May 1st, 2008 at 5:55 pm
He said: “Everyone knows the fear — fear for your daughter, fear for yourself, fear for your family, fear for everything and that horrible kind of adrenaline: fight, flight.” (fight, flight….. ehhhh?)
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“On being made suspects Mrs McCann said her reaction was fury that the focus had moved away from Madeleine. “As soon as I realised the theory that Madeleine was dead and that we’d been involved, it just hit home: they haven’t been looking for Madeleine”
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http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/mccanns-recall-their-lastminute-decision-that-cost-us-madeleine-1362658.html
May 1st, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Shameful that Fern allowed GM to get away with the “50 yards” Tapas distance on ‘This Morning’. Countered, however, by GMs admission that they had indeed been away dining elsewhere (Chaplins) on another evening. This had never been confirmed before.
May 1st, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Brandon Flowers
Thank tou and God bless you (and me)
One quick coment about the case:
Madeleine dissapearance is not only all that titles (more mediatic case, and bla, bla, pls fullfill) but has become a powerfull FLAG against injustice, corruption, manipulation, abuse, and bla, bla… (pls fullfill). The Mcc haven’t been much lucky with their “case”. It has ended up being our case (the ingenous but reivindicative people’s, the antisystem, the antiglobalization, the common sensed people, the brave revolutionary, the brave decent housewives’, the fair, noble, rightminded, honest, common people’s…
It’s impossible to destroy a myth, or a flag. Madeleine is much a solid myth for us (antis), than a symbol for them (pros). For them its just (or they think it is) one more case of: Take it easy folks, we, the elite, are always above Joe public).
But for us its a real crussade. That’s why we will never forget and we shall over come, with or without Rebelo, and his splendid patience and discretion.
May 1st, 2008 at 5:55 pm
see, i cant even type
May 1st, 2008 at 5:54 pm
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brandon flours Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 5:54 pm
I will try tomorrow
May 1st, 2008 at 5:54 pm
sorry brandon, I cant stop giggling here… it the thought og K & G having a spazzy fit, its just got me lol
May 1st, 2008 at 5:54 pm
I will try tomorrow
May 1st, 2008 at 5:53 pm
Garth
They did a quick interview with an outside journo, and Gerry shrugged for england and gurned for scotland when saying see…….
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brandon flours Says:
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 5:53 pm
Lone - I really wouldnt know how to get it from the tv to you tube, or I would
May 1st, 2008 at 5:53 pm
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just_me Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 5:52 pm
no Lone, you just want to see them spazzing dont you
I do - how can I see it
May 1st, 2008 at 5:52 pm
no Lone, you just want to see them spazzing dont you
May 1st, 2008 at 5:51 pm
brandon - no, they are so matter of fact about it all, its so not natural
May 1st, 2008 at 5:51 pm
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just_me Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 5:50 pm
they spazzed right out pmsl
Can you put it on you tube?