Madeleine McCann: My Brilliant Career
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
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 11:45 pm
219
Fair Says:
May 19th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
216 Brandon
Any ideas why?
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No news would seem to be the obvious answer.
I can, however, offer some comments on the nature of professional obligations, as determined by our Courts, which impinges on why the medics in Team Mccann might be rather twitchy about fulfilling Clarries mandates:
Bolton v The Law Society [1993] EWCA Civ 32 (06 December 1993)
‘Because orders made by the Tribunal are not primarily punitive, it follows that considerations which would ordinarily weigh in mitigation of punishment have less effect on the exercise of this jurisdiction than on the ordinary run of sentences imposed in criminal cases. It often happens that a solicitor appearing before the Tribunal can adduce a wealth of glowing tributes from his professional brethren. He can often show that for him and his family the consequences of striking off or suspension would be little short of tragic. Often he will say, convincingly, that he has learned his lesson and will not offend again. On applying for restoration after striking off, all these points may be made, and the former solicitor may also be able to point to real efforts made to re-establish himself and redeem bis reputation. All these matters are relevant and should be considered. But none of them touches the essential issue, which is the need to maintain among members of the public a well-founded confidence that any solicitor whom they instruct will be a person of unquestionable integrity, probity and trustworthiness. Thus it can never be an objection to an order of suspension in an appropriate case that the solicitor may be unable to re-establish his practice when the period of suspension is past. If that proves, or appears likely to be, so the consequence for the individual and his family may be deeply unfortunate and unintended. But it does not make suspension the wrong order if it is otherwise right. The reputation of the profession is more important than the fortunes of any individual member. Membership of a profession brings many benefits, but that is a part of the price.’
The Master of the Rolls was talking about solicitors, but the same principle apply to doctors, and is frquently cited by the GMC…
May 19th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
All leads are exhausted.
May 19th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
216 Brandon
Any ideas why?
May 19th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
so accents seem to be an issue tonight
this is dedicated to totje:
http://www.dalealplay.com/informaciondecontenido.php?con=13749
May 19th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
Goodnight anorak!
May 19th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
215 posts on a weekday
Has to be the lowest ever!!
May 19th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
Christine
I have noticed on more than one occasion, Fern britton ‘this morning’ , eamon holmes ’sky morning news’, John stapleton’ gmtv news hour’ , and a few others…………..
asking probing questions, making a ‘ hmmmm I see’ face etc….. on one day, then within a month they are on there sucking up to clarence big time.
May 19th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
211 Maravilha
Um, don’t know - who dares in the media world to speak out either for or against the McCanns. The media have had their mouths zipped and actually I would say that they are so non committal because, in the end, they don’t want to be proved wrong. I would say the case is in their ‘pending’ tray waiting to go into the ‘action tray’. I also think (and only think I might add), that all those interview questions recently, had to have government approval and various reassurances delievered for them to go on on air. It stunk to the high heavens to me when I watched very carefully choreographed questions being put before them.
This country has never encountered such a scenario before - that’s why I’m intrigued by it all - and a lot more than me besides from what I read on here.
Are they suing any papers at the mo? God knows they need the money for later maybe?.
May 19th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
209
veritablequandary
I have no idea?
May 19th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
Steve T
Quote from Clarrie:
“Of course, Kate and Gerry would do anything they could if they thought it would help find their daughter.”
This case has boiled down to evidence. PJ seem to be doing ok on that score but I’m afraid Kate and Gerry are a lot lacking. I’ve never seen, heard any evidence that they have done anything (at all) they could. I’m actually waiting for them to take their first steps. Even amber alert was about other peoples’ kids, not Madeleine. And Kate admits on TV that they did not do any physical searching because they were too exhausted from the first 48 hours. I’ve read that adrenneline kicks in and you go out and search and search and you don’t get tired because your tiredness pales into insignificance when you are looking for your first born child - aged three at the time.
I really really do wonder what the bigger picture is here and who is pulling the strings. This has gone on for over a year - I reckon that the McCanns now realise that their lives are never going to be the same again, whatever happens - they’re on the losing side. And that’s even if they get off scot free (no pun intended). They are not believable anymore (or were they ever, I don’t know, certainly with the PJ who suspected that there was no evidence of an abduction from early on).
They’ve pulled a lot of people into their web and a lot of lives have been harmed and will grieve like M’s grandparents and extended members of both families. It’s the kind of thing that takes many years to heal and recover from.
May 19th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
Are the media in Britain against the McCanns now or still in their favor?
May 19th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
Herbal thoughts……..
……………………………What about getting a British film studio to rebuild the relevent bits of Pdl in Rothley and the re enactment could take place there.
Then, and this is the clever bit, they could use footage of the event for the McCann, Warner Brothers partnership production ” It was’nae us!” and the sequel
“You Rat ,Murat” saving loads of dosh and having less mortgage worries.
In an aside, football supporters travelling to Russia have all been given a photo of Maddie with there visa’s and are to report the sightings each hour to a Rothley phone number. Negotiations are being had to get Man Utd to emblazon their shirts with Maddies image. Mr. McCann had a copy of his own photo on standby just incase it took too long to find one of Madeliene and said he would be happy for it to be used.
“Russia is a place that has had very few sightings and we want the average for such a lovely country to go up” A supporter said. ” How do you think the Rusians feel when Chile has had more sightings!” Said their pink suited leader.
The McCanns were hoping to attend the match but Mr.Putin was hoping they would drop by for a visit to the Gulag where they could chat about torture techniques and money laundering. “We Russians have a lot to learn” Said Putin as news of another failed staged abduction leaked through from ‘Klyuchevskaya Sopka’.
The Russian have also ordered a number of Pink Suits from ‘Clarence Fashions’ which should bring in enough money into Britain to save Gordon Browns neck.
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May 19th, 2008 at 10:39 pm
207 Brandon
6:09 - 7:30 was a lengthy postless interlude.
Did things get zapped?
May 19th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
matt
not exactly!
Carmen
Do you sound gay?
Maravilha
No its a sublinamal message to my brain to get off for ages, unlike BBL be back later !
Lindy
Is your husband posh too? What does a posh male liverman sound like?
Coolandcalm
accents and terminology are very revealing!
Not just a class issue!
May 19th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
Bloody hell 25 mins without a post?
May 19th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
stevet
how u doing ?!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 19th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
This has probably already been posted, but just in case.
http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=132384&command=displayContent&sourceNode=232710&home=yes&more_nodeId1=132393&contentPK=20659698
May 19th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
Spanner in the works here-do you think perhaps the other Tappas might not want to return to PDL as this week away last year, seems to have dragged out a bit longer that they thought -like 53 weeks longer-and they’re rueing the day they ever agreed to go in the first place-no more sinister reason than that?
May 19th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
Evening all.
May 19th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
Apparently not, Jo.
I was just reading about a case here where the mother and half-sister of a 16-year-old heroin overdose victim have been convicted of manslaughter through gross negligence.
‘The court heard that the pair knew the teenager had taken heroin and was showing signs of an overdose, but did not call an ambulance.
Instead they put her in the recovery position in her bed at their terraced home in the Pwll area and then went to watch Emmerdale on TV.
Townsend told the court she believed her daughter would “sleep it off”….
Prosecutor Paul Thomas said they owed Carly a duty of care and their actions amounted to gross negligence.
The defence case was that the pair did not believe Carly was in danger.’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/7408660.stm
May 19th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
hellooooo….anyone in?
May 19th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
One question before I go out for diner: if the PJ has no evidence like some believe,why did they slam an other 3 months evidence?
May 19th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
195
bounty hunter
May 19th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
193
Nostradamus
They are deluded
May 19th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
195
bounty hunter Says:
May 19th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
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Sorry to hear that you are still feeling awful; it sounds like a very nasty combination.
Remember, drink plenty of non-alcoholic fluids, and sleep as much as you can.
Why be awake and miserable when you can be unconscious and oblivious?
Admittedly, the non-alcoholic fluids are far less tasty than the real thing, but you can always console yourself with the relection that once you are back on form you can acquire a crippling headache the enjoyable way…
May 19th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Good evening
bounty hunter. If you lived in rural England like I do, I might suggest you have hay-fever, but knowing nowt about SA and its pollen, I won’t.
May 19th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
Good evening all.
Just woken up knocked out by Grippn caps for about 6 hours !
Severe headache sinus, now coughing,
Makes me wonder how strong pharmaceuticals make products ? Think i will take just one tonight.
Dr Watson if you are still there ? loved your little troll drawings, and well done last night, i felt too ill to join in the fray.
May 19th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
192
Dr. Watson Says:
May 19th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
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If you shut your eyes and listen to spoken English, it is actually very ‘hissy’, having multiple ’s’s in every sentence. Compared to French or Italian, English sounds very harsh with all the ’s’ sounds we have. (if you’re not convinced, read these sentences out loud!)
May 19th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Almost exactly a year on, it continues to fascinate and horrify. To send chills down the spine of every parent. To turn us all into armchair detectives harbouring pet theories on what really happened.
Its complexities, moral and forensic, are still talked about in every home, office and factory, and in every newspaper.
None of us had heard of Madeleine McCann until she was already gone. But we feel we know her now.
While I have never sought to pass any guilt on the McCanns themselves, either for leaving their children alone while they went out to dine, or for being possibly involved in their own daughter’s disappearance, I’m fairly certain that all of us were aware from the beginning of how rare abductions of children from their own homes are: kidnapping whilst on holiday is next to unheard for. As the days, weeks and months have passed, with all the leads apparently drying up, the suspicion was always going to pass onto themselves. I genuinely hope they are innocent, mainly for their own sake. The best thing they could do now though is to completely step back from the limelight, sack Clarence Mitchell and make it clear to the press that they will be making no further comments whatsoever until any new leads turn up. They can still fund their own investigations into their daughter’s disappearance, as they seem to be doing, but their own presence in the coverage is only exacerbating the increasingly chilly public mood towards them. At the moment, as perverse as it is, they’re only encouraging the mentality which is leading the tabloids to sink even lower than they ever have before.
Matt
Try the 6.20 at Leicester on Tuesday…..Titus Andronicus is my tip.
May 19th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
May I add on the topic of accents…
English as a language is very sensitive to sound - because the meaning of the words changes if said differently. As a result, English native speakers are trained from birth to recognise nuances in sounds of speech.
“can I have a clean sheet” needs to be said with a long ee, otherwise you are in trouble. Sheep is not a ship, and “making love” should not be said as “making laf”. In some other languages it is not as significant, and the way the words are pronounced only matters as a tone of speech, or intonation. Subsequently, regional accents do not tend to develop so strongly.
In Russian, for example, you can say “sheeeeeeeep”, and it will be still a ship. Instead it would mean that you love this ship, it is cool. So native speakers of such languages are both kinder and more ignorant - they do not mind how words are said. English people are also extremely careful to pronounce someone’s name properly, and get offended if their name is pronounced oddly. In other languages it is not an issue.