Madeleine McCann: Let Us Pray, Light The Way, It’s A Year Today
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
THE SUN (front page): “MADDIE: 1 YEAR ON”
A year of headlines, sensation and speculation. A year of Watching The Parents.
DAILY MIRROR (front page): “LIGHT A CANDLE FOPR OUR MADDIE”
And leave a chair empty at the dinner table, too? And when should the candle be lit?
“9:15 tonight… A YEAR ON”
Did you light a candle a year after 7/11, the end of the Falklands War, the Hillsborough disaster?
Did the Mirror forget to tell you to?
It is “A DAY TO PRAY”.
FIONA PHILLIPS: “A year ago today Madeleine McCann’s mummy and daddy, Kate and Gerry, became victims of the most colossal crime.”
Mummy and daddy… Are Mirror readers being asked to empathise with Madeleine? The fact is, it could. It could happen to any of us.
Grip hands tighter. Avoid Portugal. Spread the anxiety. The rare crime of a chid abduction, as Phillips supposes, might find a victim in your child.
I fill my car up with petrol and sometimes leave the children in the back when I go and pay for it. It could happen to me.
I’ve seen mums chatting to friends in supermarkets and on busy pavements while their children wander off. It could happen to them.
It happened to the McCanns in a child-friendly, family holiday village. It could happen to you.
YORKSHIRE POST: “The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, has written a special prayer to mark the first anniversary of Madeleine’s disappearance.”
Church of England PR?
Father God, we pray for Madeleine McCann Keep her safe and take away her fear and anxiety May your holy angels guard and protect her We pray that she may be reunited with those who love her Give hope to all her loved ones And hear our cry for her safe return We offer our prayer in the name of the Good Shepherd Jesus Christ, your Son and our Lord. Amen.
DAILY TELEGRPAH: “McCann haters - the lowest of the low”
SIMON HEFFER:
Just when one thinks one’s capacity for shock is exhausted, one reads some of the charming, expletive-rich comments sent to Kate and Gerry McCann in the last year since their daughter Madeleine evaporated in Portugal. I know some nutters are convinced they killed her, which I am equally convinced is balderdash: but what shocks me is that even those who accept that someone else abducted her cannot resist delving into the still-open wound the McCanns have, and attacking them for their supposed negligence on that evening last May.
I try to envisage the sense of smug satisfaction these people have when the letter is posted or the send button pressed on the email: but, despite a long study of human degeneracy, I simply can’t.
THE SCOTSMAN: “In the shadow of the bogeyman”
There is no such comfort for my children’s generation. They know the worst can happen because it did. The bogeyman came and took Madeleine from her bed. And for weeks on end they could not turn their heads nor take a breath without being reminded that he had. The press picked up our fear and shone it back at us.
THE GUARDIAN: “Services to mark year since Madeleine vanished”
His wife added: “It’s funny in some ways, because you kind of think it’s just another day, really, almost like a media landmark than anything else. But I think we’ve maybe underestimated it, and it’s probably more significant than we felt. I don’t think we’ll know until the morning really what feels right.”
NEWSWEEK: “TABLOID FODDER - One year after Madeleine McCann disappeared in Portugal, lurid reporting continues to cash in on her disappearance.
She’s so famous that she only needs one name: Maddie.
Or Maddy?
Her image—those trusting eyes, that innocent grin, the shiny blond hair—haunts Britons, who may think that by now, they’ve heard everything about Madeleine McCann, the young British girl who vanished from a holiday resort in Portugal’s Algarve one year ago Saturday. Her disappearance is probably the most intensely followed mystery in modern British history. Tabloid sales skyrocket with coverage of even the most minor details, which could be why Kelvin MacKenzie, the former editor of The Sun, has called it “the most significant story of my lifetime.”
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May 3rd, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Garth how do you know that your wife carries a sleepy/ dead child the same as Matt?
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:02 pm
173…Garth
I might carry a deceased child like that…but never a sleeping
child.
Odd you didn’t state the other possibility….Drugged ???
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:01 pm
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Matt. Says:
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:59 pm
The “Tormented” Parents/Couple just after the end of the BBC TV
Interview……(Link posted earlier).
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Good grief.
How can they be so stupid?
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:00 pm
143 Matt
They want people to keep their eyes open when they go on holiday this year. I like their sense of urgency!
Do you think they (BBC?) deliberately left the camera rolling to capture their laughter? I do.
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:00 pm
171…Garth
Only after you answer the outstanding questions.
Otherwise….have a good day.
Extra smiles just for you…and Dun.
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:59 pm
………….. nothing in between
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:59 pm
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Matt. Says:
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:54 pm
168…Garth
You should give them some Calopl…helps to induce deeper sleep.
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She was either asleep or dead imo.
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:59 pm
The “Tormented” Parents/Couple just after the end of the BBC TV
Interview……(Link posted earlier).
http://i26.tinypic.com/2mxmzno.jpg
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:58 pm
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Matt. Says:
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:54 pm
168…Garth
You should give them some Calopl…helps to induce deeper sleep.
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Tis a saturday and a well earned day off. Would you like to move on….. ?
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:54 pm
168…Garth
You should give them some Calopl…helps to induce deeper sleep.
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:52 pm
166…Garth
I insist, first requests first….don’t tell me you put first requesters
back in the playlist when DJ’ing….if later requesters bribe you ?
So….you think the chid was asleep ?
Or are you just going to swerve the question, again ?
:)
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:52 pm
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Matt. Says:
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:50 pm
164…Garth
We must have different parenting skills.
…our children have not been
disturbed by being properly supported.
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Mine are light sleepers.
You area light weight!
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:50 pm
164…Garth
We must have different parenting skills.
…our children have not been
disturbed by being properly supported.
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:49 pm
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Matt. Says:
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:48 pm
161…Garth
First requests first, please.
So…you think the child was asleep ? :
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Not quite. We were discussing the way to carry your child. Lets do that one first eh?
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:48 pm
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Puzzled Says:
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:35 pm
Sod the candle.
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I don’t think you can sod a candle…
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Matt
The truth is, my wife carries the child like yourself. But more often than not the childs sleep is disturbed.
But then in fairness she finds it awkward because she hasnt got the strength in the back to carry her the way i do.
I take it you have the same problem?
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:48 pm
161…Garth
First requests first, please.
So…you think the child was asleep ? :
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Matt.
It’s not the normal position to carry a child.
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:45 pm
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Matt. Says:
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:44 pm
154…Garth
I do not agree that such a carrying position is “normal”…certainly
not safe for a child under 4.
Er….. why?
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:44 pm
154…Garth
I do not agree that such a carrying position is “normal”…certainly
not safe for a child under 4.
So…you think the child was asleep ?
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Some magic medicine from Dr Costa (the MotoGP GP)!
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:42 pm
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pat Says:
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:38 pm
hi garthy
enjoyed your djing last night
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEGeqO3JUF8&feature=related
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Very good. However, i feel that type of DJ might be a bit more apt for some of the posters on this forum. No names mentioned of course!
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:41 pm
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Puzzled Says:
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:35 pm
Sod the candle.
If its lights they want, we should invest in a rocket and locate it somewhere appropriate.
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Bugger you!
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:40 pm
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Gloria Smudd Says:
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:36 pm
Garth
Lorenzo’s riding with a chipped ankle bone after a massive high-side in Shanghai.
Do you think he’s almost tough enough to be a footballer?
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ooh …………… now thats a tough one!
Some highside as well, how it kept it together?
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:38 pm
hi garthy
enjoyed your djing last night
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEGeqO3JUF8&feature=related
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:38 pm
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Matt. Says:
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:31 pm
150…Garth
One each….just like your’s should have.
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Thankyou. Thats very reasurring!
Anyway, with regard to the way the child was carried. Quite normal in my eyes if you dont want to disturb the child sleep.
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:36 pm
Garth
Lorenzo’s riding with a chipped ankle bone after a massive high-side in Shanghai.
Do you think he’s almost tough enough to be a footballer?
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:35 pm
Sod the candle.
If its lights they want, we should invest in a rocket and locate it somewhere appropriate.
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:31 pm
150…Garth
One each….just like your’s should have.
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:29 pm
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Matt. Says:
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:08 pm
134…lyn
Personally, I have never dared to carry my sleeping children
in that position. I was always conscious of the need to support
their heads.
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My gawd ……………… how many heads did your children have?