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 9:31 pm
376
jo
So, in theory, he could just have a hairy neck??????
Ah the assumptions…
July 14th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
ANN, I finally read the whole today’s thread and want to send you my best wishes for your good health
July 14th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
Hello Whoops
Sorry, have just joined… just scrolled back a bit now, the madness is here today is it?
Just watching the programme about Islam..
July 14th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
372
+ unfortunately he opens his collar at the office buahhhhh
SpongeBob
Because hairs show ….up his throat
July 14th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
Hello.
July 14th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
Sponge bob-save me!!!
July 14th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
370&371-Dear God, has everyone gone quietly, stark bleedin ravin’ mad? Excuse me while I just go and talk to the shadows in me ‘ead!!!!
July 14th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
365
jo
‘Gils….NO I dont sleep with him,thank god for that! enough to have to bear the sight of his err…you knô rather hairy chest.Terrible.Cant overcome it.Almost worse than clarrie.At least,this hairy chest is tanned not pinkish around corners agrrhh
Otherwise,he is a “nice” bloke really…as long as I shut up,we”re “friends”
Anyhow,he keeps his shirt at all times WITH a bloody tie in the freaking heat ‘
Intrigued…How do you know he has a hairy chest when he keeps his shirt on with a tie at all times? Hmmmmm
July 14th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
362
jo Says:
July 14th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
302
Cheryl
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Jo, when a PR is hired they have a job to do and that is hopefully to make a corporation, law firm, etc. or person look good, put out bad press fires, and protect their rears. I thought he was doing quite well considering what he was up against until that fiasco over who leaked about Madeleine crying for her mother. After he shot off his mouth blaming the PJ he just went downhill and things, as we all noted, got very quiet re him with little word coming from him. I don’t think any PR firm or PR person would envy him for the job he has/had. You know what job burn out is, don’t you? I bet he has it by now, the stress he has been under and exposed to has to have taken a toll on him. I know majority on here don’t like him but I admire him solely for sticking it out this long, alot of people couldn’t have with the intense pressures. He has been a one man ’show’ - no PR firm standing behind him or others helping him out.
July 14th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
356
Noseycow Says:
July 14th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
Thanks Ann
am very interested in her reply
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Noseycow, this is Christine’s reply for you, I just “cut and pasted”, hope it helps…..
It is only us humans who presume they are at peace, because we dont hear from them, or thats how we would like to feel they are because we loved them,thats what we mean by a free spirit, free to come and go bothering no one and half the time no one knowing, so we must not take it that because we presume they are at peace they are not around and just because they make no contact doesnt mean to say thay are not right next to you, and one must not forget that heavenly realms have no doors and no border lines and a spiritual heaven may still be here on earth around those they loved, so there is no up there or down here when your soul returns to spirit. Hope this helps, love C xx
July 14th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
367…And your point is…….
July 14th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
Jo
How much have you had to drink?
I read you’re post 3 times and can’t make head nor tail of it!!!
M and A
Think she’s ranting about a bloke, which would explain some incomprehension, a glass of wine could enhance the understanding.
I’ve been rumbling on all day about my husband, because he won’t heed me we ended up at the dox A&E and the dox again
July 14th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
Cool
Sorry must be too young - went straight over my head.
Nite Julie
I predict Sunshine tomorrow 
July 14th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
Noseycow 357. Keith Moon playing his drums in heaven. Though of course most of you are just too young!
July 14th, 2008 at 7:39 pm
Gils….NO I dont sleep with him,thank god for that! enough to have to bear the sight of his err…you knô rather hairy chest.Terrible.Cant overcome it.Almost worse than clarrie.At least,this hairy chest is tanned not pinkish around corners agrrhh
Otherwise,he is a “nice” bloke really…as long as I shut up,we”re “friends”
Anyhow,he keeps his shirt at all times WITH a bloody tie in the freaking heat
I will gently make him understand he could do without the tie but swiftly.He must think thats HIS idea NOT mine.Freaking childish as well
July 14th, 2008 at 7:39 pm
Righto, have to be off now … lovely evening all, and sweet dreams
July 14th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
There’s always a first for everything on Anorak ………………… JO!!! We’re a-waiting the juicy gossip …………….
July 14th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
302
Cheryl
Oh…yes he is clever and shameless….truly amazing but just in case nobody wants him
may be we should start a fund and…leg it or else my lovely boss could sort him out ?Good “friends” with M3
We dont want an other victim,so we….a victim that will “help” other…. err…..parents with “disappeared” children laying around the world
I am not too worried about him really.
Too many are certainely more than happy to “employ” him against keeping his big gobs shut because he actually is a dangerous source of info
July 14th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Julie!!
SSSHHH please!! His wife mught be lurking
Has anorak ever been cited in a divorce case?
July 14th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
Julie
The very odd electric thunderstorm - and I agree they are stunning.
In life BC (before Children) would rush to the window and draw back the curtains to watch … sigh,
then of course I used explain to the children that it was only the elephants falling out of bed… sigh
as they grew it was the clouds ‘bumping’ together… sigh
and now it is the time delay between the speed of light and the speed of sound and they try and calculate how far away the lightening was… sigh
July 14th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Jo, just don’t tell us you slept with the boss
July 14th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
Jo
Spill the beans!!! or should that be beanz
July 14th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
Ah well Nosey … the kind intention was there
As long as Pimms contains a certain percentage, I will be happy to have one … if not, could always add a touch of vodka or so
I’ll have you know, our summer is well, almost, on its way back here … by September I should be able to start wearing all the skimpies during the day again …. oh bliss … do you have electric thunderstorms over there? They’re just sooo romantic - can’t wait for those to start again
You lot should be used to the weather not quite controlling its bladder all the time
July 14th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
Thanks Ann
am very interested in her reply
July 14th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
351
Noseycow
July 14th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
337
Noseycow Says:
July 14th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
Ann
Can spirits who are ‘at peace’ come back?
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Further to this, I have just e-mailed Christine to see what she says and will let you know.
July 14th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
Thanks Ann
July 14th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
good lunch Jo?
July 14th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
July 14th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
Well my drawing got somewhat mangled…
Pimms is a very English drink served in the summer with fruits and Mint leaves - mmm delicious.
I am not at all sympathetic to you. You’ve had your summer!!
Our summer however is proving to be a total washout!!!