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 11:08 pm
Hi there, any news?
July 14th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
I do hope M&A will pardon my little “intervention” …
M and A
Thats fine Chatelaine, I just left it as marginally less boring than ‘the PJ are shelving the case’ which is what we usually get
July 14th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
So I would suggest you do what you do best & give us irrelevant music clips again
July 14th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
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Gandolf Says:
July 14th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
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I fail to see the relevance in this [or any other] thread. Apart from that it’s not a very good one & far too long
July 14th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
Nosey , Chenier
It was Bob at dox A&E and dox again, he’s pulled a tendon, needs approx 4 weeks off and physio. Toing and froing to Clerkenwell was NOT a good idea. But a Pimms later on worked wonders
July 14th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
401
SpongeBob
I’m sure a ‘Prince Albert’ would be noticed in tight trousers. IMO of course.
July 14th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
On a farm out in the country lived a man and a woman and their three sons. Early one morning, the woman awoke, and while looking out of the window ontoto the pasture, she saw that the family’s only cow was lying dead in thefield. The situation looked hopeless to her-how could she possibly continueto feed her family now? In a depressed state of mind, she hung herself.
When the man awoke to find his wife dead, as well as the cow, he too beganto see the hopelessness of the situation, and he shot himself in the head.
Now the oldest son woke up to discover his parents dead (and the cow!), andhe decided to go down to the river and drown himself. When he got to theriver, he discovered a mermaid sitting on the bank.She said, ”I’ve seen all and know the reason for your despair. But if youwill have sex with me five times in a row, then I will restore your parentsand the cow to you.”
The son agreed to try, but after four times, he was simply unable to get itup again. So the mermaid drowned him in the river.
Next the second oldest son woke up. After discovering what had happened, hetoo decided to throw himself into the river.
The mermaid said to him, “If you will have sex with me ten times in a row,then I will make everything right.”And while the son tried his best (seven times!), it was not enough to satisfy the mermaid, so she drowned him in the river.
The youngest son woke up and saw his parents dead, the dead cow in thefield, and his brothers gone. He decided that life was a hopeless prospect,and he went down to the river to throw himself in. And there he also met the mermaid. “I have seen all that has happened, and Ican make everything right if you will only have sex with me fifteen times ina row.”
The young son replied, “Is that all? Why not twenty times in a row?”
The mermaid was somewhat taken aback by this request. Then he said, “Hell, why not twenty-five times in a row?” And even as she was reluctantly agreeing to his request, he said, “Why notTHIRTY times in a row?” Finally, she said, “Enough!! Okay, if you will have sex with me thirty timesin a row, then I will bring everybody back to perfect health.”
Then the young son asked, “Wait! How do I know that thirty times in a rowwon’t kill you like it did the cow?”
July 14th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
Willow
LMAO
pray continue…
July 14th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
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Ciara
‘Well, he wouldn’t need to remove his shirt and tie ..em..to notice that’
- Perhaps a Prince Albert - might spot that with his strides intact
July 14th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
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Noseycow Says:
‘Lowering the tone again I see ‘
Yes, had to… all the ghostbusting stuff was getting a bit high brow
July 14th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
Shit ‘The Mole” is still here.
I thought key words on the previous thread would have been picked up by the American Spook System (A.S.S.), alerted some dark agency and after a quick discussion involving the British/Section Heads in Tilbury (B/S.H.I.T.) an elimination squad would have been dispatched A.S.A.P. (as soon as possible) to quieten this major leak.
But maybe ‘The Mole’ has read and incorporated the now famous book on the art of evasiveness ‘G0t A Reason To Hide” (G.A.R.T.H.) . If so this maybe a long drawn out search. Particularly as the suspect can walk through airports without a passport!
On second thoughts do you need a passport when flying from California to Washington? Hmmmm. Maybe you do.
July 14th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
Spongebob
Lowering the tone again I see
July 14th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
396
SpongeBob
Or a Cock Ring!!
Well, he wouldn’t need to remove his shirt and tie ..em..to notice that.
July 14th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
395
whoops
Or a Cock Ring!!
July 14th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
393-Does he have a medallion and a sovereign hairless ring.
July 14th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
389-Book1, page 1.
July 14th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
381 jo Says:
‘chest,neck,throat,back’
- Jo, you do know a lot about a man who keeps his shirt on. Sack and crack too?
July 14th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
ANN
I had time to read back and saw your post: GREAT news
Keep it up
Take care
July 14th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
Well, whichever Mod it is, dox, A&E and dox again is not a fun way to spend a day; I hope whatever it is gets better soon …
July 14th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
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Noseycow
Hi Julia
Nosey I CANT drink and I never liked it,so I do not miss much …sometime I appreciate a glass of very cold beer or very cold champagne….it makes me sleep whatever time of the day it is.See me falling asleep at a biz lunch when I am supposed to make mental notes and write things down ???
Its like meat:I am not vegetarian but I just do not like meat therefore I do not eat it
July 14th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
Whoops
Is this book 1,2,3,4,5,6 or 7?
July 14th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
382
jo Says:
July 14th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
368
Noseycow
No,Nosey …no drink at all ,honest,just tired
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Yep Jo and I’m Julia Roberts!!
July 14th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
377-Yep-all gone loop the friggin’ loop!
382-jo, go and have a drink-we understand you better then!!!!
Anyway-back to my novel….
One fine day(check the forecast-GMT 13;47 hrs-Worcester-10/6 in the 2008 year of our Good Lord)-Chernier left for work as usual-a little late, but then she works family friendly hours, term-time only with allowance for her seasonal affective disorder-see Appendix 1, annexA-Courtenay versus TSB. The train was 1 minute and 23 seconds late-see Jones versus British Rail 2003-failure to adhere to terms of contract/Lost earnings/Post Traumatic Stress Disorder-…………..it’s a bedtime story should have you out for the count in no time……….
July 14th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
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Châtelaine Says:
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
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Just gone back and read myself. That is good news for a change.
Ann
If you’re still around I am pleased and your health really is your wealth, it is all that matters. Best wishes..x
July 14th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
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
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M&A
Is that June? Are you/hubby OK?
July 14th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Ann you’re a star!
Thanks for that - will you thank Christine for me
July 14th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
“The former journalist is supposed to have helped other couples besides the McCann couple on a pro bono basis, but today, in spite of a significant salary, he is looking at other options: “I am happy to help whoever has to face the media, but I have to place myself on a secure financial footing,” Clarence Mitchell stated.”
Whoever HAS to face the media? what for? to prove their innocence for example?
Aye! clarrie,clarrie…..
http://frommybigdesk.blogspot.com/
July 14th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
368
Noseycow
No,Nosey …no drink at all ,honest,just tired
July 14th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
379
SpongeBob
chest,neck,throat,back…Spongy! do you want a pic?
July 14th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
371
Cheryl
Yes…a burnt out one man show
I wont say I admire him personally but I admit he is an outstanding liar