Madeleine McCann: Clarence Mitchell For Hire, Richard Desmond And The Guardian Repeats
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DAILY TELEGRAPH: “McCann’s spokesman Clarence Mitchell ponders PR move
As Kate and Gerry McCann return from their first family holiday since their daughter Madeleine disappeared 14 months ago, their spokesman Clarence Mitchell is in talks to join a PR agency where he plans to help other parents who have lost children to deal with the media.
Such is the news of the McCann case that the internet traffic-hungry Telegraph is looking at Clarence Mitchell’s career options. An interviwer might ask him what good has come of all the PR and media handling, and point out that not every missing child is the the blonde, photgenic progency of middle-class doctors and thus not deemed to be as newsworthy.
Says Mitchell, the McCanns’ spokesman:
“I’m happy to help anyone in the eye of a media storm, but I need to put myself on a firm financial footing. I should stress, however, that there’s absolutely no question of me abandoning Kate and Gerry McCann.”
Working for the McCanns is a job, and it pays. But when will it end?
THE GUARDIAN: “Fakery fallout hits TV sector”
Deception rows caused several top television figures to slide down the top 100. It’s the MediaGuardian 100, an arbitrary league table of TV shows and staff.
The newspaper sector accounts for three of the top 10 fallers - two editors and a proprietor. Richard Desmond is the second biggest faller, down 20 places to 55, after his newspapers had to make unprecedented front-page apologies and pay £550,000 in damages to the family of Madeleine McCann.
And the Guardian loves to write about Desmond:
55. Richard Desmond
In March, Richard Desmond’s Express Newspapers titles ran unprecedented apologies and paid £550,000 in damages over stories they had run about the family of Madeleine McCann….
It was another blow to the credibility of the papers, credibility that has suffered ever since Desmond bought them in 2000…
Under-resourced and undermined by the McCann apology, Desmond’s newspaper group also saw the first 24-hour national newspaper strike for 18 years in a dispute about pay and outsourcing.
Desmond is Fleet Street’s least-loved proprietor, but as the Observer’s Peter Preston memorably put it: “No one likes him, though (in common with Millwall FC) he doesn’t seem to care.”
No.78 is Peter Wright, editor of the Mail on Sunday.
If Wright is occasionally a controversial figure, then he gained extra credibility this year when he joined the Press Complaints Commission after the Daily Express editor, Peter Hill, stepped down in the wake of Express Newspapers’ £550,000 damages payout to the family of Madeleine McCann.
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Richard Desmond, the owner of Express Newspapers, has also had a mixed year, paying out £550,000 in damages to Gerry and Kate McCann for a string of inaccurate articles about their daughter Madeleine’s disappearance, and taking the unprecedented step of publishing front-page apologies in all four Express and Star national titles.
Is the Guardian obsessed with Richard Desmond?
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July 14th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
large pint for you and a good rub!!! xxxxxxxx
July 14th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Lone
I can empathise. A woman with a sign saying ‘Jesus died for your sins, stop killing for Satan’ is lurking outside my window. My day stinks too.
July 14th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
my bike got nicked from the front of my house last night/this morning (my own fault cos I didn’t lock it) but i’m set right back off the road, doesnt’ give someone the right to teef if tho plus when I got to kings cross this morning my season ticket wasnt in my wallet and I had to stump out an extra 40 quid for another ticket on top of the bloody extortinate amount of 4k a year just for the privilege of getting to work. Rip off bastards. I’m now just waiting for the next thing to happen so that will be the three bad things all out of the way. I’m planning on a complete change to all this running about to work f all. I must be crazy leaving at 7 getting home at 8 all for 30k a year just ain’t worth it. Ahhhhh that’s better - get it off me chest….
July 14th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
lone
wassup come ere …….??!!!!!
July 14th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
i’ve had a bad start today
July 14th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
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Noseycow
He is so UGLY…..why doesnt he ask HIS stoopid wife to go with him?Do I have to cut his freaking meat at well or wot?I must say he is nice and let me off a lot of the normal working hours….to work from home,hence my anchoring on anorak jajajaja
Gone to cut his meat and talk about anything NOT realated to the mccfools…I hope
Bye……be good xxxxx
July 14th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
steve t
you is wicked….
July 14th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Morning/afternoon all.
10 Million for twins, got confused with who they were talking about to start with.
July 14th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
Jo
as long as its only ‘lunch’
July 14th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
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Scarlett
It’s gone 11 o’clock by my watch, anything happened?
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YES….my boss is forcing me to lunch with him
July 14th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
Later Matt
July 14th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
Time to go out.
Good sleuthing !!!!
July 14th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
126…Julie
Never have any problemos with my maths…it’s my spilling which causes me grief.
July 14th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
July 14th, 2008 at 11:56 am
124…Julie
Big Ben goes “Dong, Dong, Dong, Dong, Dong, Dong, Dong, Dong, Dong, Dong, Dong”.
July 14th, 2008 at 11:53 am
Ok so wot woz supposed to happen at 11 today?
July 14th, 2008 at 11:48 am
Noseycow
I have a friend who works for the U.N. in Geneva and he’s worse than me - he’s sleeping his way through the delegates and it’s all on Gaydar.
July 14th, 2008 at 11:46 am
Clarence ” I should stress, however, that there’s absolutely no question of me abandoning Kate and Gerry McCann”.
Dr G P McCann….”We can only speculate about Clarence’s situation”.
Or was that someone esle he was referring to…sometime…?
July 14th, 2008 at 11:45 am
Carmen
Bentley, Chateau, vinyard… (good looking and single would be relevent without the first three) …. did you get his phone number?
July 14th, 2008 at 11:45 am
C&C I’m the one with the dogs…speaking of which I’d never get Henry anywhere near the pier…
But I do think Cheryl is permanently plumbed into Anorak, and not known as a blushing violet either
July 14th, 2008 at 11:44 am
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Carmen Says:
July 14th, 2008 at 11:39 am
And lucky me, the owner was so grateful for my help, that he opened the boot and shelled out a couple of cases of his own Chateau’s wine…….and yes, he was good looking, and divorced, and coming back next week.
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Errr Carmen in that case, would you mind giving me your address (seeing that we’re on the subject of dishing out little titbits of info) ….. I shall pop over there just in time to put on my nicest smile for above mentioned gentleman
July 14th, 2008 at 11:44 am
Julie 116
Okay… done my time for now so have to disconnect completely or I’ll keep flicking back and forth!!
July 14th, 2008 at 11:43 am
July 14th, 2008 at 11:41 am
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coolandcalm Says:
July 14th, 2008 at 11:36 am
Jo… I did notice you were being fair!
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Fair will be NOT be amused at that - she dislikes people trying to impersonate her
July 14th, 2008 at 11:39 am
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Noseycow Says:
July 14th, 2008 at 11:36 am e
Carmen
A broken down bentley is better than no bentley at all.
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And lucky me, the owner was so grateful for my help, that he opened the boot and shelled out a couple of cases of his own Chateau’s wine…….and yes, he was good looking, and divorced, and coming back next week.
I’m ashamed to admit that I had only two glasses of this excellent plonk and I have a hangover to die for today - that’s why I rarely drink, and probably why the cheapskate Mr G married me….I must be the cheapest woman in the world to get drunk!
July 14th, 2008 at 11:39 am
JJ 107…. is it a bright pink hat with white feathers around the brim? I can’t see you though………..
July 14th, 2008 at 11:36 am
Carmen
A broken down bentley is better than no bentley at all.
am currently selling my Bugatti
July 14th, 2008 at 11:36 am
Jo… I did notice you were being fair! well said.
July 14th, 2008 at 11:35 am
Jo
You are being nice and it has been noted!! Thanks
No one is slagging cheryl off as far as I’m concerned just discussing some of her posts (in a satirical manner).
Cheryl knows that we love her.. and her sense of humour is coming along in leaps and bounds, she’ll soon be an ‘honourary brit’ if she continues…
July 14th, 2008 at 11:35 am
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jo Says:
July 14th, 2008 at 10:16 am
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Scarlett
Bear with me…I am checking my crystal ball….ooops,I can only see clouds,storm coming up,tsunami like….wait….. Coco is coming
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It’s gone 11 o’clock by my watch, anything happened?