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 7:08 pm
557 baby jane
I noticed first on the documentary…hmmmm. The vanity….I bet my £50 donation paid towards those.
May 1st, 2008 at 7:07 pm
Has Clarrie been dumpted? I’d have thought he would have been ferrying them around the TV stations today but no sign of him. And GM said this morning something like, from now on we’ll be handling the media differently. Hmmm…..
May 1st, 2008 at 7:06 pm
549
clouseau
“The cases of Elisabeth Fritzl and Natasha Kampusch in Austria have also given them hope that Madeleine could be alive - and they can even imagine her growing up in a different place, surrounded by different people, and simply adjusting to her new situation”
*******
Would you be kind to enlighten me over any possible relationship between the 3 cases?
May 1st, 2008 at 7:05 pm
554
Chenier
Yes.
The beauty of McLogic is it’s selectiveness!
May 1st, 2008 at 7:04 pm
evening all
someone tell me some good news. Are they to be arrested?
May 1st, 2008 at 7:04 pm
Jo,
I cant help feeling that the PJ are nearly ready to make arrests.
May 1st, 2008 at 7:03 pm
I love this quote from Gerry during their sky interview….
“It led to a lot of rumour, myth and innuendo,” Mr McCann said. “What we want is responsible reporting.”
Don’t we all Gerry, don’t we all!
May 1st, 2008 at 7:02 pm
555
SteveT Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 6:56 pm
Evening all.
Any arrests?
*****
Heads rolling?
May 1st, 2008 at 7:01 pm
556
suzi
The lower lip really seemed jumbo to me on Sky, but maybe it was just the lip gloss.
May 1st, 2008 at 6:59 pm
Has kate had her lips done?
May 1st, 2008 at 6:56 pm
Evening all.
Any arrests?
May 1st, 2008 at 6:45 pm
550
Justlooking Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 6:32 pm
543 / 545
Nosey / Chenier
Oh yeah!
…the media, nasty bloggers, nutters, father Christmas and everyone who does not light a candle on vigil night…
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And, of course, the other Tapas members.
After all, they all left their children alone, so it must have been right, mustn’t it?
May 1st, 2008 at 6:44 pm
545
chenier
*giggle*
May 1st, 2008 at 6:41 pm
551
clouseau Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 6:33 pm
“one of the nights Maddie came through”……………..what is that supposed to mean
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puzzling isn’t it, clouseau? sounds a bit like a seance to me.
May 1st, 2008 at 6:33 pm
“one of the nights Maddie came through”……………..what is that supposed to mean
May 1st, 2008 at 6:32 pm
543 / 545
Nosey / Chenier
Oh yeah!
…the media, nasty bloggers, nutters, father Christmas and everyone who does not light a candle on vigil night…
May 1st, 2008 at 6:29 pm
evening all just been running through the news items…sorry if its already been posted
Dermont on the verge of a historic interview then he bottled it and let them of the hook
starts of nice enoungh well worth a look if you have not seen it
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1314663,00.html
May 1st, 2008 at 6:25 pm
Well I am going to go drink my hot strong and sweet coffee, over a good chicklit book, while Mr Noseycow (who has just returned from a hard day at the office) cooks my tea.
Ah Bliss
night all
x
May 1st, 2008 at 6:21 pm
544 Irish - Hot strong and SWEET please
May 1st, 2008 at 6:20 pm
I taped sky interview today and thought this strange!!!!!! Dermot asked from a viewer’s email.Why don’t you go back t PDL??Gerry”The reconstruction is under review,we are very concerned that this has been made public. How can you do a reconstruction that would be a media event.What additional info will be gained” !!!!!!!!!!!IMO The same additional info that you would get from people would give when phoning your new hotline !!!!!!! But what we must not forget when you ring the hotline money wil go in to the fund.
May 1st, 2008 at 6:20 pm
542
Justlooking Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 6:15 pm
The McPloy blame-storming has been pretty productive to date. In no particular order, the nominees are:
1)The ‘Abductor’ - all his fault
2)The PJ -for not finding Maddie
3)MW - for not having a baby listening service so they had to DIY
4)Europe - for not having Amber Alert
5)The buggy
Is that everyone?
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No.
The obvious one is the media.
If the media had given it more coverage then Madeleine would have been found.
May 1st, 2008 at 6:20 pm
541 nosey
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sure do. hot and strong, the way you like it
May 1st, 2008 at 6:19 pm
Justlooking
You forgot the bloggers, and the nasty nasty nasty vile press…
May 1st, 2008 at 6:15 pm
The McPloy blame-storming has been pretty productive to date. In no particular order, the nominees are:
1)The ‘Abductor’ - all his fault
2)The PJ -for not finding Maddie
3)MW - for not having a baby listening service so they had to DIY
4)Europe - for not having Amber Alert
5)The buggy
Is that everyone?
May 1st, 2008 at 6:15 pm
Irish - I really fancy a coffee - do you serve lattes?
May 1st, 2008 at 6:14 pm
Bad PR/memory i’d say…
every time the idiots Mcc’s open their mouths, no fly would live with that odour
… right then, bar open, who wants what
May 1st, 2008 at 6:10 pm
I survived the BARN
How could it possibly be a last minute decision to dine at the tapas? The children were fed around 5 / 5.30pm. Was weight conscious K (who did not serve potatoes with their roast dinner on last nights doc) going to give the kids two evening meals?
May 1st, 2008 at 6:08 pm
528
chenier Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 6:01 pm
The wax? Tell me more…………..
May 1st, 2008 at 6:07 pm
bye
g’wknd
May 1st, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Looks like the idiots are dropping like flies…….