Madeleine McCann: Fact Checking The Truth About Maddie McCann And Ben Affleck’s Fiction As Fact
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
Ben Affleck has a new panic film – Gone Baby Gone - in which the lead child is blonde enough to remind all reviewers of Madeleine McCann. The film – a work of fiction - cannot be mentioned without also making mention of missing Madeleine.
It is the 12th Rule of Journalism.
THE OBSERVER: “The cruellest crime of all -Delayed by the McCann case, Ben Affleck’s intense and gripping thriller is well worth the wait”
Crimes involving children touch on our deepest emotions and though we’ve seen numerous films about infant abduction over the past 50 years, ranging in tone from Seance on a Wet Afternoon to Murder on the Orient Express, the subject is peculiarly affecting at the moment in the light of the publicity given to the cases of Shannon Matthews in Dewsbury and Madeleine McCann in Portugal… To add to the anxiety, there is an uncanny physical resemblance between Madeleine McCann and the film’s four-year-old Amanda McCready.
It’s tabloid bingo, in the broadsheet Observer! Can anyone mention Fritzl and get the prize?
IRISH INDEPENDENT: “It’s a film that examines the media hysteria and prurience that happens when children are abducted — especially pertinent themes in our post-Madeleine post-Austrian crazies times.”
Double points for the Irish Indy which manages to work in a reference to Josef Fritzl, whose crimes came to light more than year after Affleck finished his film.
Bingo!
SUNDAY INDEPENDENT: “A child is gone, but a reputation is reborn: Ben Affleck’s directorial debut was withdrawn last year because of the McCann case. It still makes disturbing viewing”
A missing child, but an actor reprieved. There’s a film in this.
Anyone likely to feel pained by the topic should know that Gone Baby Gone is no more comfortable to watch in 2008 than it would have been when Madeleine McCann stared out from every front page.
SUNDAY TIMES: “Gone Baby Gone - the Sunday Times review”
The UK release of the film was delayed because of the similarity between the name of the abducted child in the script – four-year-old Amanda McCready – and that of Madeleine McCann.
Mc… Mc… Is John McEnroe commentating on Wimbledon this year? Just wondering…
DAILY TELEGRAPH (Aus): “Extract: Truth about Maddie McCann”
IN this extract from Vanished, a book by Danny Collins, the Madeleine McCann mystery is again under the spotlight.
Facts as fiction. Facts as entertainment. Selling Madeleine McCann:
As a bilingual expat, Murat often worked for local police as a translator in cases involving English-speaking tourists.
In fact, it would later be revealed that he had acted in the role of interpreter for the Portuguese police during their questioning of two of the McCanns’ dinner companions, now dubbed the “Tapas Seven” by the ever-epigraphic UK press.
Surely the Tapas Nine?
Back to the facts checker, Mr Collins…
THE SUN - The UK release of Gone Baby Gone was delayed by seven months because of the strong similarities with the Madeleine McCann case.
TIME OUT - Due to superficial resemblances to the Madeleine McCann kidnapping case, ‘Gone Baby Gone’ was withdrawn from the London Film Festival last year…
Fact as fiction…
Posted: 8th, June 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Josef Fritzl, Madeleine McCann, Tabloids Comments (164) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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June 9th, 2008 at 9:19 am
125 brandon
Has clive been back on? Been busy this weekend at wedding, havnt even peeked at anorak, must be a record!
June 9th, 2008 at 9:19 am
130…jo
Good morning all !!
“”"Kate and Gerry McCann have vowed to vigorously contest neglect charges
after court documents revealed that they have not yetbeen put in the clear over
their missing daughter Madeleine.”"”
Are they being optimistic…or just ignoring the other possibilities re
any Charges ??
Considering…
“”"Papers released last week show that police in Portugal have failed to rule out homicide, abandonment, concealment of a corpse and abduction.”"”"
Ah yes….spin about the Neglect…something which they seem to have
been emphasizing for months.
Lesser of several evils I suppose.
June 9th, 2008 at 8:55 am
http://www.mccannfiles.com/id79.html
Not official news just tabloid news
Hello magazine has forgotten to mentio the famous Strasbourg sausages
June 9th, 2008 at 8:53 am
McCanns could be off to Strasbourg in two weeks time, 03 June 2008
Hello! magazine No. 1024, 10 June 2008 (issue date: 03 June 2008) (No online link)
McCanns to fight neglect charges
Kate and Gerry McCann have vowed to vigorously contest neglect charges after court documents revealed that they have not yetbeen put in the clear over their missing daughter Madeleine.
Papers released last week show that police in Portugal have failed to rule out homicide, abandonment, concealment of a corpse and abduction. The couple’s spokesman Clarence Mitchell told HELLO! “Kate and Gerry have received legal advice both in Portugal and England that they did everything within the bounds of reasonable parenting. They vigorously deny the neglect charges.” Kate and Gerry are both still arguidos, official suspects in the investigation.
It was also reported last week that their friends, dubbed the “The Tapas Seven”, will not return to Portugal to take part in a reconstruction of Madeleine’s disappearance a year ago, days before her fourth birthday. They fear that they too will become suspects and that the exercise will not achieve anything.
Meanwhile, the McCanns are considering heading to Strasbourg in two weeks to bolster support for the campaign, backed by HELLO!, to introduce a European-wide child abduction scheme, based on the AMBER Alert system in the US.
June 9th, 2008 at 8:52 am
Morning, Everybody
And, it’s goodbye from me (got to start work - grrrrr!)
June 9th, 2008 at 8:49 am
126
DuncanR
Morning “all”
June 9th, 2008 at 8:49 am
Duncan
I am just about to kill mine!! scratched a hole in my parquet flooring
June 9th, 2008 at 8:46 am
If it’s news you’re after ?
I gave my two dogs a bath yesterday
June 9th, 2008 at 8:46 am
WTF
Oh well, we can piss clive and cheryl off then,
and talk bollocks
June 9th, 2008 at 8:42 am
hi and bye brandon
No news, AGAIN!!!
June 9th, 2008 at 8:42 am
hi
No news ????
BBL
June 9th, 2008 at 8:37 am
morning dr watson, as its just us 2 would you like a cup of tea?
June 9th, 2008 at 8:24 am
And I am not the first…
June 9th, 2008 at 8:11 am
does this mean im first?
June 9th, 2008 at 8:11 am
good morning, is everyone having a lie in?
June 9th, 2008 at 12:48 am
Goodnight all, really gone now. xx
June 9th, 2008 at 12:34 am
Jo
repost tomorrow!
I cant digest it now!
June 9th, 2008 at 12:34 am
If your’e still around c—–r, sorry about earlier today, but it’s every man for himself.
Hope you enjoyed your Birthday, despite your cold.
June 9th, 2008 at 12:20 am
112
patch
Okay. I will do. Haven’t had time today to read back . Glad she’s returned.
June 9th, 2008 at 12:17 am
Oh, well…Goodnight M&A.
It’s been a long day.
June 9th, 2008 at 12:16 am
111
Ciara
I think you will find that Gloria has returned. If you do a search on her name, you will find her posts from earlier today.
June 8th, 2008 at 11:56 pm
No sign of Gloria’s return yet?
June 8th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
Oh, oops … with all birthdays going on, think I forget a personal
“Happy Birthday” to you, C…..r
Hope you’ll get over your, what did you call it, “British common summer cold” soon. Vitamin C!
June 8th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
108
Châtelaine
Goodnight Chatelaine. Take care..hope Maman is well.
June 8th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
107
Ciara Says:
June 8th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
Everyone gone?
****
Not really, but nothing much to say … So I’ll call it a day now too.
Good night, Ciara.
June 8th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
Everyone gone?
June 8th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
not = nor
June 8th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
M & A: what’s happening? I replied Anaheim twice and the posts don’t show, not do I get a Spam or Moderation warning…
M and A
Have freed it, was in spam. It doesn’t tell you when that happens
June 8th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
Anaheim, My post went into oblivion. Will try again. I wrote something like:
I thought you were USA because I found this:
http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showuser=4435
No offense meant, just curious
June 8th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
Hello, back again.
Some friends called in there for a short visit.