Madeleine McCann: Clarence Mitchell For Hire, Richard Desmond And The Guardian Repeats
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
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?
Posted: 14th, July 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Madeleine McCann Comments (620) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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July 15th, 2008 at 9:48 am
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S Davis
I am REVIEWING some stuff…whats wrong with it?
July 15th, 2008 at 9:47 am
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S Davis
So ask yourselves, why was he employed by the McCanns for so long?
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….coz he didnt have anything else to do?
….coz he is a professional liar?
July 15th, 2008 at 9:47 am
I think this is a private chat-room, and not a forum for comments on Anorak articles
July 15th, 2008 at 9:44 am
M&A
How comes the MccannTeam”s video of january 29th made by anorak is not available any more?
Naughty knotty Anorak
I am reviewing some stuff and I had filed it and now….???
July 15th, 2008 at 9:39 am
Mr Mitchell did not help to find the poor missing child. He helped the parents to keep on looking innocent. He is quite good at that, and he received a hefty salary for keeping the truth at bay. He deserves no money for “finding” Madeleine. So ask yourselves, why was he employed by the McCanns for so long?
July 15th, 2008 at 9:38 am
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just_me
I had a she dog called Georgina……..
July 15th, 2008 at 9:36 am
457
wtf
YES YES YES
….and send a note to Gerry to tell him,he will be very pissed off
July 15th, 2008 at 9:32 am
by just_me
July 15th, 2008 at 9:31 am
back later x
July 15th, 2008 at 9:29 am
Just_me
How to win friends and influence people
July 15th, 2008 at 9:29 am
452
Ann
You are welcome and even I believe we would appreciate any of your insights over the case of the century because beside the facts there are so many incriminating evidence,the media have decided it would be shelved…whoosh..clunk
To keep you up with the last news,we are setting up a business:Dolls Kits which come with miniature geetar,wigs and scented car keys,shelves and all.Interested in the new venture?
By the way,anyone seen Coco?
July 15th, 2008 at 9:27 am
wtf - we had new neighbours move in, I let Bailey in the garden for a wee and he started to dig the grass, I shouted at him ” Bailey stop that now!!”, all of a sudden next doors kid started crying, I had no idea he was called Bailey too … oops
July 15th, 2008 at 9:26 am
jo
Or perhaps the only name in this investigation i smile when i think of, Eddie?
July 15th, 2008 at 9:25 am
just_me
thats a lovely name, i like syd, but daughter hates it! Funnily enough, bailey was a name mentioned, but we have friends who have a son by that name, so decided against!
July 15th, 2008 at 9:25 am
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Cheryl Says:
July 15th, 2008 at 1:02 am
Ann, have you heard or believe the spirits come back when someone is dying and helps them pass over? A person is at the end and someone who has died before them, say a mother, father, brother, spouse,etc. is standing there waiting for them and they see them waiting ?
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I had heard that and the only “experience” of that I have is that when my ex Mother-in-Law was sitting by her husband’s bed when he was dying, she said he suddenly opened his eyes, smiled and said “Mother !! ” so make of that what you will but I like to think there would be someone there at the end.
July 15th, 2008 at 9:24 am
451
wtf
Gerry?
Amaral?
Clarrie?
Brian?
July 15th, 2008 at 9:23 am
Morning All
wtf - I was going to call my puppy Beau, but then decided on Bailey. But if I get another one its going to be named Beau, I love that name.
July 15th, 2008 at 9:21 am
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jo Says:
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
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Ciara Says:
July 14th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
#If you’re still around I am pleased and your health really is your wealth, it is all that matters. Best wishes..x
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Amen to all of that and thanks so much
July 15th, 2008 at 9:20 am
morning all
totally off topic, but we are getting puppy at the weekend, can anyone think of a good name for male collie dog? We cant agree atall
July 15th, 2008 at 9:20 am
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Noseycow Says:
July 14th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Ann you’re a star!
Thanks for that - will you thank Christine for me
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Yes certainly, she is always happy to help if she can
July 15th, 2008 at 9:19 am
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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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Thanks so much, feels like I just started completely over again !!
July 15th, 2008 at 9:18 am
Morning Maria
Do you have a job for clarrie? Its worrying poor man
July 15th, 2008 at 9:16 am
To work in half an hour.
Will try to look in later, especially if any news.
July 15th, 2008 at 9:14 am
Yes off on school run now maria thanks be back in an hour or so
July 15th, 2008 at 9:11 am
Morning jo!
July 15th, 2008 at 9:10 am
BF
Nope! I kept waiting….well….not really!
Are you OK?
July 15th, 2008 at 9:06 am
12/07/08
The deadline
Pinto Monteiro, Attorney General of the Republic, requested that the judges’ in the Maddie ‘case “to decide at the end of the month whether it is necessary to make further inquiries or whether the process is ready for final clearance.”
The request comes at a time when the report of the PJ has already been completed and handed over to the Attorney General.”
Esplendor de La Forma
BIG silence even in the media
At long last a bit of respect for Madeleine.It would be time
July 15th, 2008 at 8:58 am
July 15th, 2008 at 8:58 am
The PJ has started their official holidays although they still are working at it or at least the prosecutors.
Somefin cooking…..Justice to Madeleine???
July 15th, 2008 at 8:56 am
Morning Brandon
Noon yesterday? yessss…I was forced to go to lunch with my hary bioss and was sick in the evening
Otherwise:nada …..and nothing from portugal NOR the UK