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?
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 14th, 2008 at 11:09 am
just seen the advert for tomorrows ‘ Send in the Dogs’
‘They are what all criminals fear most ………’
July 14th, 2008 at 11:07 am
Karen
I though you were based at the heart of scottish politics…
July 14th, 2008 at 11:07 am
It would be interesting if we compared Shirley Bassey’s concert schedule with the annie1’s post timings
July 14th, 2008 at 11:06 am
Cheryl jet sets and I’m in a crappy office in Lanarkshire.
July 14th, 2008 at 11:05 am
Carmen
Nosey
Dont be naughty
July 14th, 2008 at 11:02 am
Jo
Some of us don’t rub shoulders with diplomats, we’re far to busy in the royal enclosure!
July 14th, 2008 at 11:00 am
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jo Says:
July 14th, 2008 at 10:58 am e
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Carmen
Why not believe her?
What she said makes sense,honestly
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Oh, I believe all the virtual people that inhabit this parallel universe…….
July 14th, 2008 at 10:58 am
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Carmen
Why not believe her?
What she said makes sense,honestly
July 14th, 2008 at 10:56 am
i wonder who gets the plum job as mcconn pr hack
has pinchy’s arrogance got to the point where he wants to do it himself?
with backup from a whining scouser?
i do hope so - just imagine the gaffes and body language
i’m beginning to wonder if we are about to enter the “cabaret phase” before the end game
lovely sport
July 14th, 2008 at 10:53 am
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coolandcalm Says:
July 14th, 2008 at 8:49 am
Oh the joys of no more hangovers after giving up the booze three years ago! I could still partake of the volume after years of training but the three day hangovers were too much.
Ciggies five year ago…. I suppose the heroin and crack cocaine habit will have to go next…..
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Yes indeed it will. Watch out for SOCA!
July 14th, 2008 at 10:51 am
Carmen
Classic wasn’t it - you couldn’t make it up…
July 14th, 2008 at 10:49 am
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Noseycow Says:
July 14th, 2008 at 10:44 am e
Morning Matt
Did you read last nights thread???
It turns out that our very own Cheryl works/worked for Mossad!
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Yep, and the agents communicate in code on the George thread, and annie1 is Barack Obama, and, and, I fell asleep at that point, you’ll just have to read it for yourself Matt.
Priceless.
July 14th, 2008 at 10:44 am
Morning Matt
Did you read last nights thread???
It turns out that our very own Cheryl works/worked for Mossad!
July 14th, 2008 at 10:28 am
Oh, and by the way, Clarrie, it is “my abandoning”, not ‘me abandoning’.
It is a gerund. Or did you not get that far in your education ?
July 14th, 2008 at 10:17 am
60…coolandcalm
That position was already taken.
General dogsbody really….filling in for Clarence sort off.
July 14th, 2008 at 10:16 am
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Scarlett
Bear with me…I am checking my crystal ball….ooops,I can only see clouds,storm coming up,tsunami like….wait….. Coco is coming
July 14th, 2008 at 10:15 am
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âde
I am disappointed actually…I thought we would have pics of the beach and all….not of any street anywhere somewhere…lallallalala
Must go now otherwise boss and all will have a go at me again….or try to
July 14th, 2008 at 10:15 am
59…jo
Very nice. Some cloud but sunny spells.
July 14th, 2008 at 10:14 am
didn’t someone on here predict that something big is going to happen at 11 am today?
July 14th, 2008 at 10:13 am
Matt 57… said… There are wholly innocent explanations regarding why I was on holiday the same
time and period as the good Dr’s.
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are you the new nanny?
July 14th, 2008 at 10:12 am
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Matt.
I trust you
Nice weather in Vancouver?
July 14th, 2008 at 10:10 am
52 jo
I”ve got them…the holidays pics in “vancouver”
Have a (bad) look at them on the mccannfiles
just looking in before my lift arrives
had a look at the snaps
love the second one with “so sad” caption
pinchy face has a smug grin on his face
and they are all wearing a watch - surprise, surprise
is this so they can be a bit more accurate on their “frequent” baby watching visits when they leave the kiddos alone to go on the piss?
we should be trolled
brilliant fun
July 14th, 2008 at 10:08 am
56…jo
There are wholly innocent explanations regarding why I was on holiday the same
time and period as the good Dr’s.
July 14th, 2008 at 10:06 am
Hi Matt
Just coming in when I am off….were you in vancouver as well or somefin?
July 14th, 2008 at 10:06 am
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Rosemarie
VERY sad indeed and THEY are the only ones responsable for it,dont you think?
Very good question: where is Madeleine? what did they do to her? Why?
Dont kid yourself: she will never be found and will never come back.
The only closure for them is justice in this world of ours.
The media is not hounding them:THEY want to be hounded by the media and this is why they have a PR
I hope they had a good, last holidays…..
Mods and Admin
Cool it right down Jo .please
July 14th, 2008 at 10:05 am
Morning all !!
July 14th, 2008 at 10:01 am
this whole affair is so sad, at the end of the day poor little Maddy is still missing. Where on earth is the little girl? I hope she is found soon so that there can be some closure for the McCanns. They are only trying to go on holiday and the press hound them.
July 14th, 2008 at 9:57 am
I”ve got them…the holidays pics in “vancouver”
Have a (bad) look at them on the mccannfiles
July 14th, 2008 at 9:52 am
We are all spinning in unisson with clarrie”s announcement etc…..but the case is far from being shelved,closed and forgotten
I would like to know what the new spin is hidding
I want to have alook at the vancouver pics,NOW
July 14th, 2008 at 9:52 am
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Karen Says:
July 14th, 2008 at 9:44 am e
Garth
Those badgers were so cute. I did see badgers didn’t I??? Not just shrooms?
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Yes, but Kaaren, did you notice that one of the badgers was digging a hole for himself at the back……
Garthbadger.