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 5:48 pm
‘Nite BF
xx
July 14th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
i have deleted it now
night everyone
xx
July 14th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
Goodness me BF
- we are being watched 
(Thanx a mil for trying anyway)
July 14th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
julie
oh sorry
I have to go now! it makes you wonder how many lurkers there are it had 21 hits in 10 mins
July 14th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
Aw BF, thanks for trying - but I seriously cannot get any youtube vids to play - each time I get the message “we’re sorry, but this video is no longer available!” - and I don’t know why?
July 14th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
313 Cheryl
Don’t ghosts (spirits) usually stay in the place they met an ‘untimely’ death? Wouldn’t one have to go back to that room she disappeared from and may have lost her life in to find it?
it has been suggested that maddie never went to portugal in 2007 and all the “photos” are from a previous visit - a visit that the odious wretches refuse to answer questions about
i think she may be in the garden - which, as was pointed out recently could make the sale of rothley manor a bit tricky - especially if eddie and keela get to have a sniff around
i love this sporting fun
the thrill of the chase and closing in for the kill
excellent fun
July 14th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
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Clive Says:
July 14th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Back to ghosts
Maybe if one of us could see Madeleine’s ghost, we could find out the truth
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Don’t ghosts (spirits) usually stay in the place they met an ‘untimely’ death? Wouldn’t one have to go back to that room she disappeared from and may have lost her life in to find it?
July 14th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
julie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9hzK9xbNeI
I will be deleting it in 10 minutes
July 14th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
http://www.chateaumonestierlatour.com/gb/domaine.htm
Ann, the above is the “smoothie” we’re talking about
Not quite the sort that you put in a glass and drink ….
July 14th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
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Julie Says:
July 14th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Ann, not often we come on here and read good news …. but yours is just excellent news! I wish you many, many more years of happiness and health - you deserve it xxxx
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Well it has been such a long, horrible wait and I was just over the Moon so wanted to let you know for that very reason…now I’m trying to track down this “smoothie” that Carmen knows about in order to celebrate in the appropriate and time-homoured fashion !!
July 14th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
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Noseycow Says:
July 14th, 2008 at 10:44 am
Morning Matt
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What in the hell is the Mossad, Noseycow? You be nice to me or I won’t help chase anymore mite filled foul feathered scraggly roosters away again with you!
July 14th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
chenier, big grins
July 14th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
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brandon flours Says:
July 14th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
‘He went on to say that they attract the most ghosts, and are used as portals ‘
my daughter says she’s see’s ghosts or senses presences.
July 14th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
BF, if you don’t want to post it here, you can either forward it via just_me, or ask her for my e-mail address. I’m really interested to see your photo
July 14th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
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Ann Says:
July 14th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
it’s really good news ann. am pleased for you
July 14th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
Carmen or mods and admin if I post a link here would you delete it once julies seen it?
July 14th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
BF - you can call the photo “Spook Alert”
July 14th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
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jo Says:
July 14th, 2008 at 8:47 am
I mean the mccans case is not the best reference is it?
I am worried for him: will he find an other job now or do we have to start a fund???
because
““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.”
He needs to put himself on a firm financial footing? isnt Kennedy paying his fees anymore then? even if the mccanns are charged he is not going to abandon them?awwww
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Jo, if the McCanns are not charged I have a gut feel he will be looked on as ‘the hero of the year’ and will not have a problem finding another job! Dumb as that may sound but he has stood in there (collecting money for that, I might add) and will be quite a feather in his cap to sell himself for future earnings.
July 14th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
BF - you just gotta, gotta, gotta, must, must, must, please, please, please post that photo you took - insert begging icon here - oh puleeeeez
July 14th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
Excellent news Ann, here’s to a happy healthy future…… pop…clink…
xx
Happy Birthday for tomorrow Clive xx
July 14th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Ann, not often we come on here and read good news …. but yours is just excellent news! I wish you many, many more years of happiness and health - you deserve it xxxx
And while I’m at it PAWS OFF that dude on the wine farm - he’s mine ….. I’m already checking online for the cheapest ticket - he can’t really refuse me if I rock up at his doorstep with my bags packed now can he ………………….
July 14th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
chenier
July 14th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
I thought teenage girls attracted poltergeists?
I used to assure my mother that it must have been poltergeists who had thrown everything around my room, but for some inexplicable reason she never used to believe me…
July 14th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
talking of ghosts.
I met my priest ( funnily enough he was in the same M and S as Dara) and when I told him, his first sentence back was
‘ Do you have a teenage daughter?’
He went on to say that they attract the most ghosts, and are used as portals
July 14th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
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sam Says:
July 14th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
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Ann Says:
July 14th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
that’s lovely ann, really good news.
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Thanks to you too, Sam, I feel really good now thanks to you all…..!!
July 14th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
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brandon flours Says:
July 14th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
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…ackcherley, I should have said “…thanks moi booty ” since I live in this Norfolkian neck of the woods !!
July 14th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
Ann
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Carmen Says:
July 14th, 2008 at 11:33 am
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Noseycow Says:
July 14th, 2008 at 11:29 am e
I am really an ‘ex’ royal with a booming US career and a soft spot for Hull!!!
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Aha, you too - see Fergie and I have something in common now - we were both handed the keys to a Bentley yesterday.
(Bet hers wasn’t broken down outside her back gate though, bet it went broom, broom, all on it’s own…….)
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Carmen Says:
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!
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Carmen Says:
July 14th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Nosey
Chenier
Chateleine
Julie
I’ve only got a starter Chateau - best you go straight round to him, seems to be plenty of room.
http://www.chateaumonestierlatour.com/gb/domaine.htm
July 14th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
July 14th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
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Ann Says:
July 14th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
that’s lovely ann, really good news.
July 14th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
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brandon flours Says:
July 14th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Great to hear Ann x
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Thanks my luvver !!!