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 10:52 am
87…yampster
Not to me actually….and I’ve been reading the threads for months.
Oh….Voldemort……you mean Stevo don’t you….why don’t you just
say it ?
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:51 am
Interested? Portuguese media asking questions
“Somebody saw an opportunity,says G”
http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=MV4Ck61Favg
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:49 am
76
Matt
My views on this are well known. To paraphrase the great Voldemort himself
” I’m not here to spoon feed the Johnny-come-lately’s like you. It’s all out there in the public domain.”
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:49 am
84
Matt. Says:
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:45 am
82…chenier
So far….
Remember that Tigress.
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Oh, I do:
There was a young lady from Riga,
Who smiled as she rode on a tiger
They came back from the ride
With the lady inside,
And the smile on the face of the tiger.
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:47 am
chenier
thank you for that. Yesterday, the Smuddlets burst into a spontaneous rendition of the opening of Sunshine of Your Love - my motherly bosom swelled with pride!
(and Ginger Baker is still the best drummer on the planet)
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:45 am
82…chenier
So far….
Remember that Tigress.
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:45 am
81 Chloe
Sorry, I mean Fr. Pacheco. Not my day today.
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:45 am
80
Matt. Says:
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:42 am
77…chenier
Hmmmm…..that would be good for a “Lay” bet.
Thank Heavens for Betfair, I say.
God is a gender ??
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Well, it works for me…
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:44 am
78 Nemesis
Well, one might think that it’s because of cv state of Fr. Hubbard. But I’m still not sure what it means.
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:42 am
77…chenier
Hmmmm…..that would be good for a “Lay” bet.
Thank Heavens for Betfair, I say.
God is a gender ??
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:42 am
74
Gloria Smudd Says:
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:35 am
yampster!
That’s dating you a bit!
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And me:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=qYS732zyYfU
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:41 am
71 Chloe Why is Rev Hubbard (Anglican) leading the service in PdL and not Father Pacheco ? when the McCs are supposedly devout Catholics?
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:39 am
72
Matt. Says:
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:33 am
69…chenier
The crafty Creator.
I need a name though….(to help with my next bet).
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Have you thought of something along the lines of:
Dear Goddess,
Please guide me as to which of these pestilential nags is least likely to drop dead before it reaches the winning post?
+++++++++++++++++++
and pass a drug test when it does
-meercat
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:37 am
73…yampster
A mere mortal….not too bad a musician though.
BTW…What is your personal view as regards to what may have
happened to MMcCann ?
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:35 am
67…Nemesis
“Trainer’s from Gerry”.
I am almost sure they would try to Brand that Trademark.
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:35 am
yampster!
That’s dating you a bit!
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:34 am
72
Matt
I thought it was still Clapton
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:33 am
69…chenier
The crafty Creator.
I need a name though….(to help with my next bet).
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:31 am
63 Nemesis
I’ve always felt that to be significant but I’m not sure how to interpret it. It may be that he knows them to be guilty or innocent but cannot say so. I believe he had problems with the bishop about having given them the key to the church. This would suggest that he and the bishop have differing opinions, so it could be a clash with the Church as an institution that worries him.
What I find clear is that, if he simply provided pastoral help (irrespective of the rights and wrongs of the matter), there would be no reason for him to be a broken man.
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:31 am
Nemesis
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:30 am
62
Matt. Says:
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:24 am
58…chenier
30 horses in a race….30 punters back each one to win.
All pray for their horse to win.
One might win…..which “God” would the winning punter have been
praying to ?
I need to know.
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The God who’d got a very large bet on the winner…
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:30 am
66 Gloria does cat crap smell like rotten nappies!
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:28 am
64 Matt -Write to G and ask for some new trainers!!
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:28 am
65
Nemesis Says:
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:26 am
What really went on in the crypt of the church???
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The cat crept into the crypt, cr*pped and crept out again…
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:26 am
What really went on in the crypt of the church???
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:26 am
61…Noseycow
I have worn out tons of shoe-leather, pounding the pavements seeking Justice
for the sinned against.
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:24 am
51 Chloe- Awhile ago Father Pacheco was just about on the verge of a nervous breakdown, abroken man, a shadow of his former self..
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:24 am
58…chenier
30 horses in a race….30 punters back each one to win.
All pray for their horse to win.
One might win…..which “God” would the winning punter have been
praying to ?
I need to know.
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:24 am
57 Matt - says the FBI agent who’s never worked a ‘proper’ shift in his life.
x
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:24 am
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I pray every day that I won’t be eaten by a tiger. Obviously it works because I have not been eaten by a tiger…
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“I like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy”
WC Fields