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 9:20 pm
theres a big difference between falling asleep and going out on the piss i think.
May 1st, 2008 at 9:20 pm
646 Mary
Did you see Brandon Flours rewrite of ‘blame it on the buggy’ lol
May 1st, 2008 at 9:19 pm
630-I have no evidence of what happened to Madeleine-but I’m certainly not going to stick a fiver either way-as it seems the final insult to a child-Anyway don’t think Anorak has a gambling licence.
The parents should never have left her and are ultimately responsible for her fate-But let’s look at another scenario. you take your child to a park-lovely sunny day-been really busy and before you know it you’ve fallen asleep-Child in water drowned-Your fault, yes your fault entirely-But would you then want everyone to say…BTW-I think she held it’s head under water-I’d heard her telling child off earlier-Furthermore would you then say you did-Would you like to be hung for a sheep as well as alamb?
May 1st, 2008 at 9:18 pm
someone posted it earlier, i remember the ‘hoovering’
May 1st, 2008 at 9:18 pm
641
AgendaWide Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 9:07 pm
Uta Hagen
Nice to see you
SteveT
I watched but ITV will be pleased to know I scrolled the adds
Interesting to hear Gerry mention no contact with pj investigation, what about the invitation to attend the reconstruction?
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Gosh, must have got lost in the post…
May 1st, 2008 at 9:18 pm
642 Darby
Have you been reading Private Eye’s skit on bloggers in the forums with names like ‘rot in hell_Myra’?
May 1st, 2008 at 9:17 pm
in fact, its still on skys website.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1314686,00.html
May 1st, 2008 at 9:16 pm
641
They wont go to Portugal again, they can’t risk being charged for the crime of abandonment.
May 1st, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Gonna watch “House” catch you later.
May 1st, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Blame it on the boogie!
May 1st, 2008 at 9:15 pm
she was having a fag outside, but didn’t think anything of it until she heard m was missing later on.
May 1st, 2008 at 9:14 pm
604
val Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 8:16 pm
599 whoops
The report was not about JT, it was a supposed new witness, probably another
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the story is about a witness who saw two blokes acting suspiciously outside the apartment the morning before M disappeared.
it was on sky teletext earlier, maybe still is.
and the witness has been RE interviewed by the police.
May 1st, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Chenier
Did any newpapers publish one of the many buggy photos with the -no buggy story?
May 1st, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Who is maddy McCann?
Should I have heard of her?
There’s been nothing in the news about her.
Nothing on telly or radio or internet.
Not even a word on the street
May 1st, 2008 at 9:10 pm
638 clouseau
the minute they call it what it is NEGLIGENCE they are stymied.
May 1st, 2008 at 9:07 pm
Uta Hagen
but ITV will be pleased to know I scrolled the adds 
Nice to see you
SteveT
I watched
Interesting to hear Gerry mention no contact with pj investigation, what about the invitation to attend the reconstruction?
May 1st, 2008 at 9:05 pm
631
Absolutely correct in what you say.
May 1st, 2008 at 9:05 pm
634Jo
I think Garth was extracting the Michael……..weren”t you Garth!!!!
I watched the mccanfiles video of the Documentary, quite boring really. All the talk
of Madeleine but that”s all it is, TALK. Why concentrate on a U.K. T.V. bombardment, their child went missing in Portugal.
May 1st, 2008 at 9:03 pm
clunk snarl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFpmLwS2FEE
May 1st, 2008 at 8:59 pm
M&A
Delete one message,please
Thank you
May 1st, 2008 at 8:58 pm
632
Gloria Smudd Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 8:56 pm
OK : just alive then?
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Almost certainly not.
Wish I could give a different answer…
May 1st, 2008 at 8:57 pm
631
Garth
You”ve got it!!
yiu”re the best!!
xxxxx
May 1st, 2008 at 8:57 pm
Anyway, I’m going now. Maybe catch y’all termorrer.
May 1st, 2008 at 8:56 pm
OK : just alive then?
May 1st, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Did you see what she said?
Did you see his facial expression
They were holding hands - what next?
Did they mention Maddy - no
All they want is money - the thieving swines!
Bastards, murderers.
Coffee anyone?
May 1st, 2008 at 8:56 pm
625
whoops Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 8:44 pm
Chenier-there are no signs of new-found wealth-as yet-and with the whole world’s eyes on them-and this is their own doing with the media-what chance is there of spending it lavishly-Anyway they were pretty well off anyway-2 Doctors. Doesn’t add up to me as a motive for all of this.
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No, obviously not.
On the other hand, I would be prepared to wager folding money that you have no professional expertise when it comes to money.
Perhaps Anorak would be our stake-holder?
If you would like to take the bet, that is…
May 1st, 2008 at 8:51 pm
623
Gloria Smudd Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 8:43 pm
621 chenier
Thanks again for your reply. But they seem so certain and so devoid of emotion (again today on GMTV, Kate said something along the lines of their [family] life wasn’t as happy as it could be (I’m only paraphrasing, not quoting) when she was asked what life was like without M. No use of the words “devastated”, “unbearable”, “gut-liquidising” (OK, that’s more my phrase). It just doesn’t add up. Do you think they could possibly know where she is, alive and well?
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No.
If you stop and think about it, how could Madeleine have been transferred, to use a neutral term, without considerable anguish for her?
Little children love their parents, even when those parents treat them abominably.
Little children love their siblings, even when they take up their parents’ time.
You can’t simply take all of that away and describe the child as ‘alive and well’.
May 1st, 2008 at 8:51 pm
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627
Irene Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 8:50 pm
625
Its just greed, no ifs or buts just plain G R E E D.
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May 1st, 2008 at 8:50 pm
625
Its just greed, no ifs or buts just plain G R E E D.
May 1st, 2008 at 8:47 pm
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625
whoops Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 8:44 pm
Chenier-there are no signs of new-found wealth-as yet-and with the whole world’s eyes on them-and this is their own doing with the media-what chance is there of spending it lavishly-Anyway they were pretty well off anyway-2 Doctors. Doesn’t add up to me as a motive for all of this.
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And do you know why it doesnt add up to you whoops? Because you have got a bit of the old common sense. Im afraid you’re wasting your time on some of these bigots!