Find Madeleine McCann On Facebook
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
SAY the McCanns: “We strongly support and encourage this new initiative to use Facebook to increase awareness of missing children.”
Wherever you are, whatever you are doing, you will know that children go missing.
Although not if you’re watching the TV news of reading the newspapers because Madeleine McCann is no longer in the mass media.
But the campaign has not been in vain. She is on a press release.
And the better news is that no children have gone missing in the past few weeks. We look through the mainstream press every day. It’s a fact. But what of life on the internet?
The statement goes on: “Using the power of social media in this way will undoubtedly capture the attention - and hopefully the help - of a younger population who are a hugely valuable and resourceful group.
“We would urge the millions of Facebook users around the world to keep looking and to do what they can to help bring these children home.”
Missing People has set up a widget for Facebook users to download, which will mean information on current appeals will be displayed on their homepage.
Says missing People Chief Executive Paul Tuohy: “If every Facebook user downloaded our BT-powered application, millions of people internationally could see an appeal that could help us to reunite a family.”
Because BT cares…
Madeleine McCann: Fighting the PR war
Posted: 25th, May 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann, Online-PR Comments (1,240) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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May 26th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
977 Marie Nicholas Says:
‘You could watch the video. I hadn’t seen it before, and it is interesting to see their reactions. It’s me who have a problem, and can’t sort out my feelings. I have clearer views when my feelings don’t interfere too much with my reasoning. ‘
You sound like I often feel -personally guilty if institutional or personal carer(s) of vulnerable people have failed in their duty of care. To paraphrase Patti Smith
‘their sins are their own they belong to them’
Must off off and away - to cook
May 26th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
GARTH, IF YOU TEXT ME ONE MORE TIME TO SAY YOU HAVE HAD INTIMATE MOMENTS WITH GERRRY MACCANN AND BARAK OBAMA 1 MORE TIME I’LL CALL THE F.B.I AND MOSAD AND OPRAH WINFREY
May 26th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
Hello there everyone
Here’s our remedies to those horrible things that whizz around your ears at nightime, and bite the shit out of you when you least expect it (iow mozzies - we breed the gigantic ones over here) :
Citronella oil - gotta admit I’ve never tried smearing myself with citronella oil, we burn it in little burners in every room, and it keeps those mozzies at bay - although dangerous to leave them burning with little ones around and also when you’re sleeping! Citronella oil rubbed all over the animals does wonders at keeping flies at bay though!
We get a spray tin/rub on stuff over here called “Peaceful Sleep” - don’t they manufacture it over there? It works amazingly - the mozzies toddle off to the next door neighbours when I use it
When we’re out in the bush and citronella oil is finished and “Peaceful Sleep” spray tin gives up on you, I find that the strongest perfume/deodarant that I have sprayed all over exposed areas does wonders - mozzies are not into personal hygiene and they tend to leave you alone after that
May 26th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
969
citronella. see what i can sort tomorrow.
irish girl spain Says:
May 26th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
Sam
if you do , do a small skin patch first, some people may be allergic to it. homeopathic doesn’t mean safe
‘Another lad beaten to death in Dewsbury - plus a young lad stabbed in e.London, but he’s in hospital.
It’s every day, sad.’
incredibly sad, yes all this violence.
May 26th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
960 whoops
Do you think that Maria’s views/comments are endorsed by the McCanns or is she writing ‘truthfully’ as she states in her own opinion?
965 sam
I agree with your comments. Would you mind next time distinguishing my comments from Maria’s comments if possible please
May 26th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
Agenda Wide 948
You could watch the video. I hadn’t seen it before, and it is interesting to see their reactions. It’s me who have a problem, and can’t sort out my feelings. I have clearer views when my feelings don’t interfere too much with my reasoning. The interviewer is very good I think, with her open but precise questions.
They do remind me of children caught by the schoolteacher and trying to avoid punishment. That is why I can’t help feeling for them, in case they are hiding something. If they do it to be able to take care of their twins, I can understand them in a way. Maybe, all of a sudden, they have grown up, and will not leave their little children alone from now on.
Like Chenier, if it was only an accident, and they were too weak, or too afraid to lose their jobs, to admit what happened openly, I think there are far much worse crimes. There is no comparison with murder, or hurting people on purpose.
Yet, I find it of the utmost importance that we know what happened. We must know if and why the witnesses’s statements don’t fit. People can’t get away with telling big lies, and accusing other persons, and campaigning against a country, and thinking they own the truth, the truth is their private ground, they have a pact between themselves, which, meanwhile, doesn’t stop them from asking money from the gullible public (allegedly).
If they and their friends really aren’t concealing anything, let them help the PJ.
May 26th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
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whoops Says:
May 26th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
chenier-it seems you know everything about everything-and also have the final word if someone doesn’t agree with you. You’ve won-well done.
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I think Chenier argues for arguments sake.
May 26th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
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PeterMac Says:
May 26th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
492 Garth
EDIT
“We do know that the patio doors were unlocked. This may well have been apparent to the abductor/s had they observed the apartment from the ones opposite. ”
Garth, I don’t normally reply to your posts, but this is a very simple factual error.
There are no apartments ‘opposite’ the patio doors. That is in fact the whole basis for the McCs defence that they were not negligent. They said they could see the patio doors from the Tapas bar, although in fact it has been repeatedly shown that they couldn’t.
There are eventually apartments ‘opposite’ the front door and Madeleine’s bedroom window, but they are across the car park and some bushes and a wall and a road and a pavement and another wall and a garden.
If you are trying to support the McCs you should not start chopping into their only line of defence.
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I must stop misleading people.
The apartments opposite the exit point onto the side road. Okay….. adjacent then.
My point being that John Corner has shown how easily an observation of both the tapas bar and the entrance (side road) could be observed from the apartments on t’other side of the road Ducky.
May 26th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
chenier-it seems you know everything about everything-and also have the final word if someone doesn’t agree with you. You’ve won-well done.
May 26th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
968
irish girl spain
For mozzies bites?
Calendula officinalis-mother tincture
Dont apply oils and stuff which may irritate the skin further,espcially if you are a light complexion
May 26th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
970
whoops Says:
May 26th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
967-Well you seem to have got very worked up about it and seem to have some very strong views about her parents IMO, if you don’t think so.
Anyway-I didn’t realise this was a ‘whose Dad is the strongest’ competition. And I also think the pathos of Maria’s comments have been ignored by taking it apart word by word when she is merely expressing some of her own sensitive thoughts.
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I assume that you have decided against trying to substantiate your comments; wisely, in my view.
But frankly, anyone capable of using the phrase ‘whose Dad is the strongest’ in the context of the Fritzl case, and the father in X Children, Re, is in no position to talk about someone’s sensitive thoughts…
May 26th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
961
chenier
“It seems to me to symbolise Teflon Tony’s regime; never taking responsibility for your own actions and ripping off anything you can get away with.
Claiming that it’s more than that is giving them an importance that they don’t possess; what is important is finding out what happened to Madeleine”
I agree totally.
What is really important is to find out what has happened to Madeleine and this is what the PJ has done and is doing…. unlike others
May 26th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
967-Well you seem to have got very worked up about it and seem to have some very strong views about her parents IMO, if you don’t think so.
Anyway-I didn’t realise this was a ‘whose Dad is the strongest’ competition. And I also think the pathos of Maria’s comments have been ignored by taking it apart word by word when she is merely expressing some of her own sensitive thoughts.
May 26th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
Sam
citronella. see what i can sort tomorrow.
Another lad beaten to death in Dewsbury - plus a young lad stabbed in e.London, but he’s in hospital.
It’s every day, sad.
May 26th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
944
val Says:
May 26th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
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Thanks val.
I wonder what the Lemon spray is?
Ive tried the usual chemist stuff, even lemons off my tree..cut some aloe vera used that, my legs and arms are sad
I’ll have a look in the shops tomorrow for it.
Citronella perhaps.
May 26th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
964
whoops Says:
May 26th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
961-I think deceiving kids out of their pocket money,wasting huge resources that could be used for solving other crimes ying through your back teeth is an horrific crime-If and we have no firm evidence to suggest that they have done this.
I don’t think Maria said it was the most heineous crime ever-anyway at least Fritzel held his hands up!
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Well, if you really believe that is a horrific crime then you have led a remarkably sheltered life.
Try reading this judgement:
X Children, Re [2008] EWHC 242 (Fam) (13 February 2008)
http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2008/242.html
And Fritzl denied everything for as long as he could and is now pleading insanity; if that is your definition of holding your hands up for a crime then I am sorry to have to inform you that it is not our Court’s…
May 26th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
944
val Says:
May 26th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
‘Anyway, you could try it and it”s not expensive if it doesn”t work you you. I”ts a
nice smell anyway.’
i’m wondering if citronella oil would work too ?
May 26th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
957
AgendaWide Says:
May 26th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
945 Maria says
‘To be truthful, I should be glad if it turned out to have been the parents because then there would be nobody else out there who had taken advantage of the parents’ carelessness, committed a heinous crime, got away with it and was still out there ready to strike again. That would be a relief to know.
the way i see it is that stranger danger is a fact of life, it’s always there and can always happen. that’s why parents have to be viligant and also why you teach your children certain things, to not go anywhere without telling you where, to not take sweets or rides with strangers etc etc etc., and why you take certain precautions, ie do not leave them alone or in a vulnerable postitions.
‘It would also mean that the months of vilification in the press had not been an added burden for traumatised parents already suffering what must be the worst possible grief, because without closure, but had been, in a sense, deserved. That would also be a relief to know. ‘’
they called in the press and have used and flirted with it from day one, good press coverage to the theme of what suffering parents they are they don’t seem to mind, what they do seem to mind is the criticism they get and the fact that many question their actions and degree of involvement, that, it seems they would like to bury.
‘ It would not be a relief for the surviving children and other members of the family to know this. Madeleine and her family deserve justice and certainly not villification by the press. I’m surprised you think press villification could ever be deserved.’
i think what maria means if they were were guilty then the negative press would have been deserved, i ‘m not too sure about that either. i think there’s a lot of stuff in the press is of the type which i have no business of knowing and don’t wish to know. a famous case of the press getting out of control is the death of lady diana, where people get hounded practically to death for a story or picture that sells.
May 26th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
961-I think deceiving kids out of their pocket money,wasting huge resources that could be used for solving other crimes ying through your back teeth is an horrific crime-If and we have no firm evidence to suggest that they have done this.
I don’t think Maria said it was the most heineous crime ever-anyway at least Fritzel held his hands up!
May 26th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
I”m signing off for a while, dinner is cooking and I don”t want to spoil it.
Chenier, interesting Dispatches programme on tonight about the War Lords of
Somalia”s “close links with the U.K.
May 26th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
956 jo
Hi jo, needless to say, we all know how strongly you feel about the McCanns, let”s hope
your suspicions are well founded and that justice for Madeleine is seen to be done!!!!!
May 26th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
945
Maria Says:
May 26th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
‘Murdering your child or even ignoring an accident and then covering up her death, dumping her body, causing misery to your family, engaging in a worldwide hoax and financial scam and wasting HUGE amounts of police time and resources in what you know to be an absolutely fruitless search. That is a crime , or a series of crimes, of incredible magnitude.’
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No, it isn’t.
You cannot seriously claim that an accidental death followed by a cover-up is one or more crimes of incredible magnitude. I know hyperbole is always tempting, but no rational person could compare this, say, with what the Wests did, or Fritzl. Wasting vast amounts of police time around the globe is disgraceful, and immoral, but it’s not intrinsically evil.
Nor can you seriously claim that a fraud involving a lousy couple of million sterling is extraordinary; when it comes to financial fraud it’s chicken feed.
It seems to me to symbolise Teflon Tony’s regime; never taking responsibility for your own actions and ripping off anything you can get away with.
Claiming that it’s more than that is giving them an importance that they don’t possess; what is important is finding out what happened to Madeleine…
May 26th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
957-I think you know exactly what Maria means.
May 26th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
951 PeterMac
I just tried it and there are no photos of MM, or are you suggesting how the famous
“elbow” one could be altered?
May 26th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
945 Maria Says:
” I am simply not certain yet that there is evidence to that effect in this particular case. But the police may well have evidence. We need to wait and see. For example, I have absolutely no idea what the forensic tests results really are, or will be. They may be pretty conclusive for all I know. ”
We were lead to believe they were not conclusive. This fits well with all rumoured “evidence”, non of which sounds “conclusive” (a tiny drop of someone’s blood here, a dog alert there, etc.) . So “not being certain that there is evidence” is yet an understatement.
May 26th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
945 Maria says
‘To be truthful, I should be glad if it turned out to have been the parents because then there would be nobody else out there who had taken advantage of the parents’ carelessness, committed a heinous crime, got away with it and was still out there ready to strike again. That would be a relief to know. It would also mean that the months of vilification in the press had not been an added burden for traumatised parents already suffering what must be the worst possible grief, because without closure, but had been, in a sense, deserved. That would also be a relief to know. ‘
It would not be a relief for the surviving children and other members of the family to know this. Madeleine and her family deserve justice and certainly not villification by the press. I’m surprised you think press villification could ever be deserved.
May 26th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
955
val
Both are unforgivable and both are the mccanns fault
As square as that
May 26th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
945 Maria
I agree with you, better that Madeleine died accidentally than have been abducted
and suffered all kinds of torment.
If it proves to be accidental death at the hands of one of the parents, it”s unforgivable
that they couldn”t own up at the time.
May 26th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
945
Maria
The PJ is trying to find out was happened,dont they?
WHO refuses by any means to cooperate? how do you want normal people to react to what looks like obstruction to justice???
May 26th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
949-If that is the case do you think we can sue the McCanns for the hours we’ve all wasted on here trying to guess whodunnit-or at least those of us who think that there may have been an abductor-Is there a crime of ‘wasting non-police’time?