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 2:08 pm
204
Gloria Smudd Says:
May 3rd, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Blue jacket, beige trousers …
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Green pork pie hat?
Sorry, wrong thread…
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they say that mark warner are opening a child friendly resort in Austria
-meercat
May 3rd, 2008 at 2:07 pm
199 Christine
I watched the BBC news. Ann Bevan of PACT speaking of “enormous help” of Mcs in trying to ensure that a coordinated response to missing children is adopted. She was stressing the vital importance of the speed of the response and widespread, massive and continuous publicity. Said more children are returned thanks to such a strategy than as a result of anything else. She underlined importance of up-to-date photos of children for speedy dissemination in such cases. There was also Nicky Durbin, mother of missing 19 year-old (2006, I think.) She said she would have done exactly the same as Mcs, publicity-wise, if she could have done. She said that other parents of missing children had been able to gain a lot of extra publicity “on the back” of “their tragedy” (the Mcs’ tragedy).
I also saw Jane Hill on Sky. I thought Murat’s lawyer was superb, totally professional, dignified etc. Very impressive. Jane Hill said the P da L service was being called a “service of hope”, didn’t she? I suppose that’s appropriate enough since K and G have made it clear they will never give up the search while even a glimmer of hope remains. They can’t really make it funeral-like, can they, since nobody knows what happened to Madeleine? That seems to include the police who, according to Sky (online) don’t know whether they will press charges or exonerate the Mcs.
May 3rd, 2008 at 2:06 pm
you moderating
wasn’t meant to be poetry but
thanks for the appraisal from a mere cat
meow
May 3rd, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Not being unkind Pat perish the thought
It’s hard enough moderating bad prose but bad poetry -
May 3rd, 2008 at 2:03 pm
where is everone
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your poetry scared them off
May 3rd, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Blue jacket, beige trousers …
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:57 pm
meercat
am trying too
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:56 pm
198
Pat
keep your day job
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:55 pm
funny
if they say it often enough it can catch on
abduction abduction abduction
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:54 pm
that is if she was abducted of course imo
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:51 pm
On News 24 now. Robert Murat’s lawyer speaking in support of Robert Murat.
Straplines at the bottom - “McCanns still official suspects” and “Police are still gathering evidence”.
Jane Hill is so contradictory - earlier she was telling us that the McCanns are devout catholics and now the mood changes.
They’re trying to make a comparison with a boy of 19 who went missing two years ago. They are a very mixed up bunch of reporters.
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:51 pm
why oh why do they find it funny
not just to mummy by the way
she moved on
she moved on
so far you can’t find her
how can they talk about her
just to protect themself
without crying
fucking bastards shut up
if madeleine hadn’t ben abducted…
they wouldn’t think any more about it
they would have carried on going out leaving them at home every night
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:47 pm
192
pat Says:
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:41 pm
matt…
i was thinking the same thing about the tight trousers…
he was certainly enjoying his display…
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Perhaps he hopes to replace David Beckham as the ‘face’ of Armani underpants…
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:47 pm
not sure what the accusations are
so they say
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:45 pm
the mccs
we need to find her
get on with it then…
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:44 pm
he probably wants to be a pin up
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:43 pm
From the Press Association:
Police continue Madeleine probe
1 hour ago
Portugal’s most senior detective says police are still gathering evidence in their investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
Alipio Ribeiro has told the Portuguese news agency Lusa that officials have not yet decided whether to bring charges or drop the investigation.
Madeleine vanished from the resort town of Praia da Luz in southern Portugal one year ago today.
Police have named her parents and a local man as formal suspects in the case.
“At this stage nothing has been determined regarding possible charges or closing the case,” Ribeiro said.
“The PJ continues to gather and analyse all available evidence,” Ribeiro was quoted as saying.
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:41 pm
matt…
i was thinking the same thing about the tight trousers…
he was certainly enjoying his display…
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:36 pm
I think he’s doing an impression of Terry Wogan on Points of View with his ill fitting trousers.
Gerry said “there was a small window of opportunity, the abducter had a high risk strategy and almost got caught”. I think he’s referring to himself or the person who carried M away IMO. There’s always an element of truth in a pack of lies.
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:28 pm
off to enjoy the sun
see yas
have lots of mcfun for me
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:27 pm
188 Matt.
Are Dr G P’s trouser’s too tight…or is something hidden in there ?
i thought jaffas had a bit of string and a couple of grapes
no pips - we’re brits
great motto when you’re stoical
hahaha
great fun - these people are just shites extraordinaire rodders
such fun fun fun
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:23 pm
185…âde
Are Dr G P’s trouser’s too tight…or is something hidden in there ?
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:22 pm
i thought “it” happened a year ago on the second of may
so it’s one year and one day celebrations today
any news of john the pilgrim in portugal?
we should be trolled
brilliant fun
off to enjoy the south hams sun
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:21 pm
There is something seriously ammis with the McCann’s…much more than
even I had suspected previously.
These people are exhibiting very odd behaviour.
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:19 pm
brilliant video 143
every time the shites go on camera they reinforce their guilt
excellent sporting fun fun fun
they want their “own investigation”
excellent fun
i wonder how many bottles of cheap plonk they get through today
31 hats for sale anyone ???
what fun we have
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:17 pm
183…chenier
Yes….but the McDocs weren’t aware that the cam was still running…then
after the sudden easing of the “Torment”…replaced by glee and laughter…
the pic cleared to the two empty chairs.
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:12 pm
182
Matt. Says:
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:06 pm
177…chenier
The vid link posted on 143…shows the con behaviour even more starkly
…though I think you don’t or can’t view YouTube.
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Actually, I gave it a shot but I really couldn’t face the mawkishness.
Did the BBC actually transmit the end bit where they were laughing?
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:06 pm
177…chenier
The vid link posted on 143…shows the con behaviour even more starkly
…though I think you don’t or can’t view YouTube.
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:06 pm
According to the BBC, they turned up for the church service in the end - last minute decision?
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:03 pm
176…Christine
I think so too.