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THE GUARDIAN: “Heard the same song three times today? Blame the craze for ‘testing’ tunes”
Martin Kelner is writing on his career in radio:
“The problem is that during the day most of my local radio stations are aiming at a broadly similar audience, roughly women of a certain age, from around 30 to a shade over 55. Those who claim to be in the know say this is the constituency that will help you to a good score in the quarterly Rajar figures.
The slavish adherence to this perceived wisdom was made clear to me at the BBC local station that sacked me just over a year ago (on the same day Madeleine McCann went missing actually, which is probably why you never saw much about it in the newspapers) for not being “female friendly” enough.
Irony? Given the Madeleine McCann is now a linked to the f9 button on a journalist’s keyboard, it’s hard to tell…
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May 19th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
159…brandon flours
Tried the 2nd and 3rd and 4th pages ?
There is a site which can be hired by persons embarrassed about what might
show up under Google etc…regarding them…and the programme pushes any
dodgy stuff back two or three search pages automatically.
Apparently, the logic of it is that most “searchers” give up after page 1 and
2.
May 19th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
155
Carmen Says:
May 19th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
Please everybody, no more claims that anyone is having a nervous breakdown!
(Apart from mods and admin of course!)
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Are you ordering in large supplies of little yellow pills?
May 19th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
Is anyone else having trouble with google news on madeleine?
Its just showing stuff from yonks ago and saying it was an hour ago etc….
May 19th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
156…wtf
I think that they are paying a lot of dosh for rather poor Legal Advice.IMO
May 19th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
151 Carmen
If I did say that it was obviously an error because O”Brien is the one whose child was
supposedly sick and he reportedly asked for a clean sheet which OC denied……sorry.
May 19th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Do the odious pair have to make a bloody song and dance about everything. whenever they have the chance to show the world that they are innocent they blow it every time!! Lie detector test, returning to portugal, surely with such expensive lawyers on their side they should have nothing to fear
May 19th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
MODS AND ADMIN
Thank-you for your help BF.
Now it seems to be alleged that it was JT, not ROB, and not DP, who was on the verge of a nervous breakdown!!!!
Except that The Sun page claiming that has been withdrawn.
Please everybody, no more claims that anyone is having a nervous breakdown!
(Apart from mods and admin of course!)
May 19th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Hi WTF
May 19th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
afternoon all
May 19th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
It was in the sun online one saturday afternoon…heres all thats left…….Tanner looked like she was going to have one
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I’ve just read in The Sun, which has it from the Portuguese tabloid 24 Horas, that Jane Tanner has withdrawn her statement -it would be very interesting if that turns out to be so, but so far the story seems only to be appearing in a couple of tabloids. They all were reporting, at the time she was reinterviewed, that Jane Tanner had gone into the interviews with a smile and left on the verge of a seeming nervous breakdown. Clarence Mitchell claimed yesterday that none of the Tapas witnesses had changed their statements. If this [edit:tabloid claim] is true, the abduction story has now surely to fall apart.
http: //julietpain.blogspot.com/2008/04/mccann-thoughts. html
May 19th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
MODS AND ADMIN
Val
If your ’source’ is only forum rumour then you must be careful to state that it is not a fact, but gossip that you perhaps think has some interest, if true.
I note that in an earlier posting - May 11th, you were saying that you had heard that David Payne had had a breakdown?
Now it is Russell O’Brian.
Please be careful when making comments as statements.
May 19th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
144 Carmen
I read it on SkyMessageboards just before the Tapas 7 were due to be interviewed
by Leicester Police. It was posted by “someone in the know”, not the Press. Didn”t
know about a Negligence claim, so maybe it is the same person!!
May 19th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
144 Carmen Says:
” If nobody gives me a source for the ‘breakdown claim’ in the next ten minutes, I’m going to have to pull all the posts mentioning it - so if you know a reliable source, speak up now!!!!!! ”
To ease our waiting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHwTygK05_M
May 19th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
144
Carmen
I did read somewhere somefin about it but I would copy the link if I had it.
It is the first time I hear about a member of the T9 having a pending charge for neglect????? never heard of it before
I will look up about O”brien but I must be off again now
I hope somebody will post those links
And thank you for adding the links.I just had a sudden hesitation: do I have hallucinations or wot????
jajajajaja
May 19th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
105
Cheshire Set Says - absolutely unbelievable for a so called intelligent woman - bloody unbelievable!!
May 19th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
141 Annie1
When they were at the OC, meals were included, but not sure about the villa. I would
imagine they would feed the twins at the villa so have supplies of food . What makes
us so mad is that they think we are stupid !!!!!!!
May 19th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
somebody published here that O’Brian had a breakdown.
Where did you read this?
May 19th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
MODS AND ADMIN
Thanks Matt.
If nobody gives me a source for the ‘breakdown claim’ in the next ten minutes, I’m going to have to pull all the posts mentioning it - so if you know a reliable source, speak up now!!!!!!
May 19th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
134
Matt
No,they surely dont.
The only who “do deals” are special teams of international spy etc….generally because lifes are involved.They have to deal with armement,vast amount of cash,immunity,witness and agents protection et all
Not the PJ.This is a “simple” criminal investigation
May 19th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
132 Maravilha
When JT and O”Brien were interviewed by the Police in the U.K. they were at the Station
for twelve hours……… a long time if you are merely a witness!!!!!!
Edited by Carmen
May 19th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
Val 103 - Hey they could afford to buy a FRIDGE for a rented apartment, where they didnt eat - so didnt need to use it to store food!! BUT they couldnt get a buggy to transport their kids !!
Mods and Admin
Its understood they didn’t think to bring a buggy on holiday with them.
Sorry had to edit out some of your text, as libellous
May 19th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
139…Carmen
Dunno about the “breakdown”.
But the neg claim is re he.
May 19th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
MODS AND ADMIN
Where are all these claims that O’Brian has had a breakdown coming from? Can anybody give me a source?
Also is this the same Tapas member who allegedly had a negligence claim pending against him?
May 19th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
“Mr Sousa confirmed that one of the dogs had found a scent indicating that a corpse had been in the apartment.”
……
“Mr Sousa said this week that the McCanns are regarded as witnesses and are not considered suspects. But he refused to rule out the possibility that their friends may have been involved.
Portuguese police are believed to have found some new evidence ………
Food for thoughts : the second set of DNA results have not been edited…..Has anyone heard anything about it? No
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2267836.ece
May 19th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
126…Nostradamus
Wot’s going to win the 5.50 race at Leicester tomorrow ?
May 19th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
peter Mac,
is the text of Nostradamus’ (126) well written?
May 19th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
116 jo
Thanks for the info, that”s a relief!!!!!!! Seems like CM will try to persuade one of
the Tapas 7 not to go, the Paynes seem to be innocent, the Oldfields and JT and
O”Brien suspect, but I think they will try to save their own skins rather than help the
McCanns.
May 19th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
129…val
I don’t think that the PJ “do” deals.
But unless that pair do what is needed to “clear” themselves…then they
may well be involved deeper than they care to admit.
May 19th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
128
Matt
Lest ask the PJ instead of Nostradamus
May 19th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
102 Val,
O’Brian has a breakdown?
If it is true, he knows probably more than it seems.
That’s why Jane ’saw “the abductor.
To free Russel of suspition