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 9:54 pm
jo
not overdosed
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:54 pm
JO
No in South Africa near the Drakensburg, Lesotho area.
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:53 pm
gandolph
very nice song not heard it in a lo-ong time…
what do you mean about for whom the bell tolls?
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:52 pm
407
jo Says:
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:46 pm
Ade,gone
Pat,where are the others then?
jo, i’m here on and off for bouts of pottering etc.
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:52 pm
408
SteveT
Hi
Not in bed yet?
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:50 pm
409
bounty hunter Says:
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:49 pm
HI JO
I am here , how are you ?
Just started snowing here, last year we had snow on this date too.
*******
Snowing where?
In the UK?
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:49 pm
406
Gandolf Says:
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:43 pm
For whom the bell tolls.
http://uk.youtube.com/user/goldenhits
*******
One of my favorite
Please,would you chose a very very nice song for Madeleine?thank you
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:49 pm
HI JO
I am here , how are you ?
Just started snowing here, last year we had snow on this date too.
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:47 pm
Good evening.
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:46 pm
Ade,gone
Pat,where are the others then?
I just found an other article in french but I dont know if anyone is/will be interested.
Its about the “crimes” comitted:cars bñlown up.computers stolen etc….any takers? are you overdosed?
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:43 pm
For whom the bell tolls.
http://uk.youtube.com/user/goldenhits
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:43 pm
nite ade
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:40 pm
402
âde
Happy and lucky you,Ade
When are you coming over to spain then?
Nite nite
xxx
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:40 pm
jo
we will be trolled as well
but excellent fun
nite all
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:37 pm
397
jo
quite
off to get some sleep
big music week
have mucho fun fun fun for me
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:37 pm
398
âde
Stoned as well
Special event
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:37 pm
ade
i’ve just lit one now…
not for the mccs but for madeleine..
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:36 pm
is it really a year today?? was it not a year yesterday??
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:36 pm
396
âde Says:
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:31 pm
395
jo
we have some seriously evil bastards here, i feel
we shall nail them
excellent fun
*******
The “ll be nailed,man
The whole week,they have tried the last gasp for breath but it doesnt work anymore
Madeleine is definitively gone
Clarrie has disappeared
The fund is starving
The Leicester cops are NOT going to fail their “portugas” mates
The mccanns have over done it,big time with the new campaign inviting people to breach the law
etc….
etc…
We will be told
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:33 pm
anyone lit a candle tonite?
i’d like to stuff a lit one where the sun don’t shine
great fun
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:32 pm
Listening to the vid,it seems to be official that around the 15th,the PJ will decide the mccanns future.
It sounds like the people are rather pissed off with them and the whole story
Talking about Madeleine and saying she was a very nice child
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:31 pm
395
jo
we have some seriously evil bastards here, i feel
we shall nail them
excellent fun
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:27 pm
03/05/08
Tapas Cook Breaks Silence and talks about the McCanns
http://joana-morais.blogspot.com/2008/05/tapas-cook-breaks-silence-and-talks.html
“All the Tapas employees were sacked from the Ocean Club. The former cook from the Tapas Bar gives her story about what happened on that night. The McCanns never left the apartment after the alarm was raised, all the police, locals, and employees from the Tapas bar and Ocean Club never saw the Parents searching for their own daughter. More than 200 employees were interviewed by the PJ.”
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:24 pm
391
Gandolf Says:
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:13 pm
http://uk.youtube.com/user/fizzybubbly
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Are you sad,Gandolf? xx
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:22 pm
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:21 pm
good evening, what a very sad day. Spare a thought for Madeleine
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:14 pm
387
pat
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:13 pm
http://uk.youtube.com/user/fizzybubbly
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:09 pm
387
pat
brilliant
i met her in plymouth this afternoon
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:07 pm
amazin’ how the anglican church supports scouser/clockwork orange white trash devout catholics
excellent fun