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?
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July 15th, 2008 at 11:27 am
555
Karen Says:
July 15th, 2008 at 11:24 am
Hi Brandon & Lone & everyone.
My day is better than yesterday. At 1.00am I escape the office and go with x’s assistant to Glasgow East to ‘wear my crucifix and causally mention the party to passers-by’.
I’ll get a Starbucks on the way and float about gossipping for hours - hurrah
Hello karen! Glad your day is better!!
July 15th, 2008 at 11:27 am
Lone
Congratulations.
July 15th, 2008 at 11:27 am
At 1.00 a.m. Karen? Sounds like the guy is a slave-driver - you work in the early morning hours as well
Any banner bearing ladies lurking outside today?
July 15th, 2008 at 11:25 am
554
Julie Says:
July 15th, 2008 at 11:23 am
BIRDIE!! You’re pregnant - CONGRATULATIONS
be a bloody miracle if I was Julie but I am gonna be a dad again!
July 15th, 2008 at 11:24 am
Hi Brandon & Lone & everyone.
My day is better than yesterday. At 1.00am I escape the office and go with x’s assistant to Glasgow East to ‘wear my crucifix and causally mention the party to passers-by’.
I’ll get a Starbucks on the way and float about gossipping for hours - hurrah!
July 15th, 2008 at 11:23 am
BIRDIE!! You’re pregnant - CONGRATULATIONS
July 15th, 2008 at 11:22 am
531
Matt. Says:
July 15th, 2008 at 10:59 am
528…Lone Pigeon
He must have been one cool dude.
Didn’t he show any degree of surprise at all that he was faced up by a
talking Pigeon ???
None whatsoever Matt none whatsoever
!!
July 15th, 2008 at 11:21 am
Abraham, the history of health care in GB has always been a regional lottery. Nothing new.
July 15th, 2008 at 11:21 am
538
coolandcalm Says:
July 15th, 2008 at 11:04 am
LP. Make the decision and ‘drop out’. You probably won’t be any worse off. (none of my business I know!) Mr C&C took the decision a couple of years ago to take early retirement and hasn’t looked back. Though as I work at home I do sometimes wonder where to buy a kalashnikov!
No - your’e absolutely right coolandcalm. I intend to get out of this business by xmas. It’s just not worth it as I dont’ get paid enough. My season ticket costs 4k. I only get paid 30k so effectively i’m on 26k. I have to pay mortgage, child maintenance bills etc. After everything is paid for I’m left with about £5 in my arse pocket a day and all for the privilege of leaving at 7am and getting home at 8pm. I want a career change and to be nearer to home as my son lives an hour away from home also and he starts school in September so I dont’ want to be in London. I haven’t got a clue what I want to do and how to bring in 30k at home though!!! AND TO TOP IT ALL OFF IVE GOT ANOTHER CHILD ON THE WAY DUE DECEMBER !!!!!!!! You gotta laugh eh!
July 15th, 2008 at 11:18 am
C&C, “so quick so early” is not my idea of being on form
July 15th, 2008 at 11:17 am
Julie/Jo
The NHS is no longer a “national” service, it is split into a number of regional NHS trusts. From what I have read in the papers, we have in this country a “post code lottery” for NHS treatment, that is the level of treatment you get depends on the resources of your local NHS trust. On the BBC this morning it was said that in some areas a couple get one free IVF cycle, in other areas they can get three. Also the eligibility criteria can vary depending on where you live.
Maybe when Nosey is next on she can enlighten us, doesn’t she work for the NHS?
PS. E M Forster wrote a good book about test tube babies, “A Womb With a View.”
July 15th, 2008 at 11:16 am
Ooohhhh melanie, 545, you’re on form today. So quick so early!
July 15th, 2008 at 11:16 am
534
just_me Says:
July 15th, 2008 at 11:00 am
Lone, theres only one thing for it if you have’nt got a ticket…
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/71/170474590_4de79f8204.jpg?v=0
hahahahahah excellent just_me
I’ve done enough pony to last me a lifetime!
July 15th, 2008 at 11:15 am
brandon flours Says:
July 15th, 2008 at 10:59 am
((((((((((((((((((((((((((((( big squeeze ))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
So did you call in sick oor pay another £40
No - Another £120 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They said it could take at least 10 days to get it back too -
July 15th, 2008 at 11:15 am
Julie, you could get a few shots out of that bottle!
July 15th, 2008 at 11:13 am
Julie, I love it! thanks.
July 15th, 2008 at 11:12 am
Melanie 541.
Matt, I gave up the vodka!
July 15th, 2008 at 11:12 am
Especially when it’s “bottled” like this
http://www.vodkakalashnikov.com/home.htm
(C&C don’t ever say I don’t help you out
)
July 15th, 2008 at 11:09 am
kalashnikov make vodka too as well as rifles? That must be confusing when somebody says ‘your round’
July 15th, 2008 at 11:09 am
537
Julie
Coz he knows too much?
******
Yes
536
Melanie
*****
Yes BUT HE wants the truth for Madeleine.Out of the 3 arguidos he is the only one who said it even though he knows his status cant be lifted before the definitive court ruling.Wise man…. .wink:
July 15th, 2008 at 11:08 am
538…coolandcalm
I take it that you mean the Vodka and not the Rifle.
July 15th, 2008 at 11:04 am
LP. Make the decision and ‘drop out’. You probably won’t be any worse off. (none of my business I know!) Mr C&C took the decision a couple of years ago to take early retirement and hasn’t looked back. Though as I work at home I do sometimes wonder where to buy a kalashnikov!
July 15th, 2008 at 11:03 am
527
jo Says:
July 15th, 2008 at 10:56 am
Any idea why Murat has been made arguido?
____________________
Coz he knows too much?
July 15th, 2008 at 11:01 am
Jo, I just thought that Murat actually wants to be cleared, whereas the other arguidos just want it to go away.
July 15th, 2008 at 11:00 am
Lone …. you stand to lose your job, your home, your clothes …. every bloody thing because that nerd Clive stole your season ticket ……. WAIT until he gets here
Otherwise, I’m great thank-you
July 15th, 2008 at 11:00 am
Lone, theres only one thing for it if you have’nt got a ticket…
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/71/170474590_4de79f8204.jpg?v=0
July 15th, 2008 at 11:00 am
Lone, I sympathise. I had an argument two weeks ago about a replacement oyster card.
July 15th, 2008 at 10:59 am
((((((((((((((((((((((((((((( big squeeze ))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
So did you call in sick oor pay another £40
July 15th, 2008 at 10:59 am
528…Lone Pigeon
He must have been one cool dude.
Didn’t he show any degree of surprise at all that he was faced up by a
talking Pigeon ???
July 15th, 2008 at 10:59 am
525
Melanie
I had forgotten the whole IVF stuff and had a pssing tought about R.Murat…why was he made an arguido? and why doesnt he want the case to be closed/shelved and all?doesnt he want his staus being lifted?
I will ponder some answers over breakfast methinks
Bbl