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 11:38 am
sure it’s not lone pidgeon
May 1st, 2008 at 11:36 am
Is this the new wooster?
http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/8297/poorolroosterqm5.jpg
Pikey? Surely Beaky!
May 1st, 2008 at 11:36 am
Gaunty wants them charged for neglect
May 1st, 2008 at 11:35 am
bulger detective — go to portugal !!!!
May 1st, 2008 at 11:35 am
Hiya Karen
May 1st, 2008 at 11:35 am
Morning Just_me & Brandon
May 1st, 2008 at 11:34 am
Gauntys getting mad since he found out they left them all week and left them crying!
May 1st, 2008 at 11:34 am
3 free lines… go on brandon lol
May 1st, 2008 at 11:33 am
she realised she was missing when she looked in the cupboard
May 1st, 2008 at 11:33 am
hes written something explosive tomorrow
May 1st, 2008 at 11:31 am
what are the questions how rediculous
who’s getting the proceeds of the usual dumb quiz
May 1st, 2008 at 11:28 am
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matty Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 11:19 am
Yeh Pikey, we all know money doesn’t grow in C -a bush!!
But it does grow in a missing child fund!!!
i thought C should have been “rothley manor”
May 1st, 2008 at 11:26 am
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matt
May 1st, 2008 at 11:26 am
Nosey,
Talksport. You can also listen worldwide online.
May 1st, 2008 at 11:24 am
steve t - who’s gaunty - where is he on??
May 1st, 2008 at 11:21 am
Can someone tell me whats going on - am not watching the telly or listening to the radio. 2 hours last night was more than enough for me..
Re: the nasty christmas card. Staged IMO - noone would call maddie a brat and noone would wish bad things on his ‘family’.
Should we all send the press a real version?
May 1st, 2008 at 11:21 am
Brunties on with Gauntie!
May 1st, 2008 at 11:21 am
Will Kate and Gerry come on to sample Phils desert, that’s what’s guests normally do on a chatshow!!!!
May 1st, 2008 at 11:21 am
for Kate to say that we should be looking for the person who took M from her bed is a diversion from what could be the truth. Say your child said “why didnt you come when we cried?” what would you say back to the child? something like ” aww dont worry love, we were only in the Tapas, we were’nt far away”…. therefore it could easily be that M decided to go and find them as they were’nt far away, and had an accident. The door was already unlocked/open.
why cant the just accept it was all their fault, and stop trying to make excuses and blame other people.
they are live on sky at midday too,
They dont want people to keep going on about the neglect… well, obvioulsy we do need to keep on about it, as so many people seem to think its ok to leave kids alone!
May 1st, 2008 at 11:21 am
Surely if any of us had any information we’d have remembered by now?
They need to cultivate good relationships with Interpol and child protection agencies. If Madeleine is alive it’s more likely to be an official that will find her.
May 1st, 2008 at 11:20 am
Matt 62- ROTFL
May 1st, 2008 at 11:19 am
Yeh Pikey, we all know money doesn’t grow in C -a bush!!
But it does grow in a missing child fund!!!
May 1st, 2008 at 11:18 am
58…matty
It was the little note that the Phantom had pinned to Cuddlecat…
thanking the McCann’s for their help.
May 1st, 2008 at 11:16 am
did you see the competition question?? do you think they were taking the piss out of the mc’s??
May 1st, 2008 at 11:16 am
When did it become received wisdom that most kidnapped children are alive?
I hardly remember any cases of recovered children (outside of America).
May 1st, 2008 at 11:16 am
Ferns face at the end!!!
May 1st, 2008 at 11:15 am
What do you think it is Kate saw when she went into the apartment that made her sure Madeleine had been taken? The thing that she couldn’t mention in the interview.
Was it cuddlecat on theshelf which has already been mentioned????
The answer to This Morning comp is C
May 1st, 2008 at 11:15 am
Re: the story
Actually once I did light a candle - it was for the children and families of Dunblain.
I still get upset when thinking about it.
Those parents fought with dignity for a change in the gun laws. They were not constantly bleating about how unfair life was, they certainly did not have a Spinning agent.
This is not about finding maddie - its about supporting the McC’s and getting more money into the fund.
Another emotive ( but well advised) publicity stunt IMO.
May 1st, 2008 at 11:13 am
I don’t know why the press keep saying it’s Kate everyone blames (only the PJ blame her and they might have good reason) - mostly, I think it’s Gerry we all loath. (but then they love the why, oh, why are mothers always blamed angle… it appeals to female readers).
May 1st, 2008 at 11:13 am
Ferns face looks accusing, but her voice sounds sympathetic is she just doing her job?