Madeleine McCann: Greedy Newspapers Banking On Maddy In Brussels, And Naming Rights
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann…
DAILY EXPRESS (front page): “MADELEINE: I SAW HER ON MONDAY”
“Guard tells police she was in a Brussels bank”
Can Madeleine McCann be the new Patti Hearst? What of the theory that she was kidnapped by freedom fighters, the Symbionese Liberation Army, and is being trained in covert operations and crime?
A bank worker in Brussels reported seeing Madeleine accompanied by a woman of North African appearance on Monday morning.
To Belgium, one of the low countries.
THE SUN (front page): “MADDIE: SEEN FIVE SAYS AGO.”
Maddie is the Sun’s Madeleine, of course, and is not to be confused with the Mirror’s Maddy. Everyone wants their own Madeleine McCann brand, or Maddii, as Jordan would call her.
“Sighting in Brussels bank”
Maddie’s desperate parents Kate and Gerry last night described the sighting as “invaluable”.
DAILY MIRROR (front page) “BUGGED”
“Bungling cops bid to spy on McCanns”
When the McCanns were suspects the Portuguese police wanted to keep close tabs on them. How awful is that? Was it more awful when we read about it then?
Portuguese cops tried to bug Kate and Gerry McCann’s villa and car to shore up the flimsy case against them. But the request was denied by a judge - as was a bid to see Gerry’s bank details. Family spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: “They had no evidence and were on a trawl. It was correct that it was turned down.“
DAILY MAIL: “McCann apartment was rented out to four different families before police forensic testing”
The holiday apartment from which Madeleine McCann vanished was rented out for two months before police sealed it off. Four different groups of tourists were allowed to stay in the flat before forensics officers attempted to take blood and DNA samples from the rooms. The resulting DNA analysis was inconclusive and laboratory scientists said samples were badly degraded and contaminated.
How bad is it?
Potentially crucial evidence from the two-bedroom apartment in the Ocean Club complex may have been lost forever.
Any other facts?
Mr and Mrs McCann, both doctors from Rothley, Leicestershire, rented the holiday apartment in Praia da Luz for the first week in May last year.
THE GUARDIAN: “Guardian was wrong to buy Madeleine McCann keywords on Google”
The Guardian has admitted it mistakenly bought the keywords Madeleine McCann from Google. By wrongly purchasing the keywords a link to the paper’s coverage of Madeleine’s disappearance appeared in a column of sponsored results when a search for her name was made on Google.
The newspaper has now taken down the link and has reviewed the list of keywords it owns, Marc Sands, marketing director for the Guardian, told Journalism.co.uk.
COUNTERVALUE: “How low will the Guardian sink with search engine marketing?”
Even though it repeatedly denounced the Telegraph’s perfectly legitimate search engine optimisation strategy back in May after telegraph.co.uk had risen to No.1, that distaste for what is not decent journalism doesn’t extend … apparently … to its marketing department. Or perhaps search engine marketing at GNM isn’t just the domain of the marketing department - last month GNM’s digital head, Emily Bell, was quoted on her own website explaining how the newsdesk has involvement in SEM:
‘Also in the past two months, we have started to combine search engine optimisation - talking to the news desk on the paper about SEO-friendly headlines and underlining SEO with our subs desk [on the website] - with our marketing and pay-per-click activity’
That pay-per-click activity now extends to buying the phrase “Madeleine McCann”, something that even The Sun has stopped doing after being roundly condemned for poor taste in its dash for unique users.
So says Justin Williams, assistant editor at the, er, Telegraph Media Group…
Madeleine McCann: Making money
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August 9th, 2008 at 11:13 am
Gailen
Still alive and being treated like a princess - with parents who don’t leave her crying all night…. mmm yes it would be a REAL shame if the real Maddie sighting wasn’t reported.
New thread BTW
August 9th, 2008 at 11:08 am
I don’t believe the McCanns did away with Madeleine, by accident or on purpose. And, although my name begins with G, I am not Gandolph or Garth.
And wouldn’t it be a pity if Madeliene was alive and seen but people said to themselves:- “No it can’t be her so I won’t report it”.
August 9th, 2008 at 11:04 am
chenier
stop it!! you know I need NO encouragement!
August 9th, 2008 at 10:58 am
I wonder why there’s so much fuss about the Portuguese police wanting to bug the McCanns’ phones and villa? It sounds like normal police procedure if they suspect somebody of something. As far as I am aware, neither the press nor the McCanns have criticised the police for bugging Robert Murat’s phone….
With regard to the sighting in a bank in Belgium, I hope this wasn’t the poor Berber woman with a blonde child who was investigated in Morocco last year - perhaps she is having her first holiday abroad! And has anyone else noticed that at least two people who have seen what they thought was Madeleine have said she was dancing? One witness who said the little girl danced to the music she was playing on her mobile phone, and the other who said she had to be told to stop dancing all over a tram? Would a little girl who had been abducted in the middle of the night and taken to live with other people in a different country be happy enough to dance, one wonders.
August 9th, 2008 at 10:56 am
Spokesman Clarence Mitchell fears people may not come forward with new sightings as they assume she is in Amsterdam, where she was said to be spotted by a shopworker.
Mr Mitchell added: “It would be wrong to concentrate on this one sighting. We haven’t found it more credible than any other.”
BF
Maddie’s desperate parents Kate and Gerry last night described the sighting as “invaluable”.
So which is it ? How do we reconcile those positions. Doesn’t Clarrie speak for the McCs ?
Though, thinking about it, the sighting could be incredible in terms of finding MM, but also invaluable to the McCs in keeping the fund going and keeping people from asking the difficult questions about what happened on the night in question.
August 9th, 2008 at 10:51 am
Nosey
That sounds like such wonderful fun!
Perhaps you could read the gangsta rap thread instead of getting wet…
August 9th, 2008 at 10:48 am
Chenier
It was going great till around 1am when No1 son threw up all over the tent
, so after cleaning it up i bought him home for a bath, cup of tea and quiet night in his own bed (any excuse- hey!! ).
We will return for this afternoons session which starts around 1.30pm, but it is pouring down at the moment so i might be a little late…
August 9th, 2008 at 10:38 am
Nosey
How goes the music festival?
Was there mud?
August 9th, 2008 at 10:36 am
Chenier
No they are all genuine and beautiful gems, just not the one they’re (not) ‘looking’ for
August 9th, 2008 at 10:32 am
BF
I’d guess that Amaral was being a tad sarcastic there, don’t you think?
August 9th, 2008 at 10:30 am
It’s time for the Mccanns to go to US tour: television, newspapers… It would be so nice to spot Maddie or Maddy in Hollywood or maybe… Miami, please not New York!
August 9th, 2008 at 10:29 am
Noseycow
Gosh!
You mean all those wonderful gems that the PJ didn’t follow up properly turned out to be paste?
August 9th, 2008 at 10:28 am
http://www.correiomanha.pt/noticia.aspx … E90987AAC6
The Sighting of Truth
The process of the so-called ‘Case Maddie” was released to the public on Monday. On that day, a new era in the connection between the Portuguese justice and the public started. Journalists from around the world jumped onto the thousands of pages looking for secrets as the key to unravel a mystery. Only a few hours were necessary for the brightest minds to discover what in 14 months a large team of Portuguese and British researchers and experts had not found.
There was an overflowing of leads and sightings - all credible and despised by the police, of course. It is the most basic common sense that the whole process needs to be read and read again to get a full and serene understanding. The criticism, if it is necessary, should arrive later on, to avoid the sensationalism that in the past victimized us (us, the unaware citizens). The right to inform is not the right to speculate. And that is not what we expect from our journalists, which for the sake of truth we must say, always knew how to differentiate themselves from the British journalists. No reason to lose it now. Justice thanks the citizens - and, let us not forget about the child that on May 3, 2007 disappeared.
Goncalo Amaral, Ex-coord. Criminal investigation
August 9th, 2008 at 10:26 am
Chenier
they wouldn’t want to waste all that interest earning money doing pointless things like chasing up old sightings now would they.
August 9th, 2008 at 10:22 am
OLD sightings revealed in police files should be treated with caution, the McCanns say.
But, but, but
I thought that the files were being opened so that they could follow up the leads which had been overlooked by the pesky PJ…
I thought the whole point was that buried in there was the vital clue.
Obviously not…
August 9th, 2008 at 10:17 am
Coolandcalm
You could always try the Heinlein Manover - though what good hitting him over the head with a book will do him heaven knows.
Talking of which, it seems to me that the sainted ones have amassed a number of dedicated followers, shame neither of them is called Mike
August 9th, 2008 at 10:16 am
Coco… I watch CSI and House…..
of course I can do a tracheotomy. I can even insert a chest drain and perform a Y cut and brain removal on a dead body. (or even a live one.. depending on if they upset me)
August 9th, 2008 at 10:15 am
Maddie’s desperate parents Kate and Gerry last night described the sighting as “invaluable”.
Yes indeed!
August 9th, 2008 at 10:12 am
‘Caution’ on spot
OLD sightings revealed in police files should be treated with caution, the McCanns say.
Spokesman Clarence Mitchell fears people may not come forward with new sightings as they assume she is in Amsterdam, where she was said to be spotted by a shopworker.
Mr Mitchell added: “It would be wrong to concentrate on this one sighting. We haven’t found it more credible than any other.”
and Gerry last night
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August 9th, 2008 at 10:09 am
Batman
If you are lurking today hi!
keep missing you !
August 9th, 2008 at 10:08 am
retract the claim as i know it to be correct. I will look for it when i have time though.
Delete it if you wish.
August 9th, 2008 at 10:08 am
coolandcalm. …….. Do you know how to do a trachy if he can’t cough it up?
Get one fountain pen and one towel and cover everywhere up - trust me!
August 9th, 2008 at 10:07 am
Garth Says:
August 9th, 2008 at 9:56 am
Not right now, Im mowing the lawn!
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Oh that’s fine …. anytime when you’re finished will do.
…. and then I will expect an apology from you!
August 9th, 2008 at 9:57 am
…. thanks maria. shame I can’t spell resuscitate…
August 9th, 2008 at 9:56 am
Not right now, Im mowing the lawn!
August 9th, 2008 at 9:55 am
Garth Says:
August 9th, 2008 at 9:52 am
Julie Says:
August 9th, 2008 at 9:48 am
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Let me remind you miss sincerity…….
Having ‘no sympathies for the parents’ and wishing ‘they suffer for the rest of their lives’ dont quite fall into the same pot!
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Err … I know that! Would you care to find post where I wish that they suffer for the rest of their lives?
August 9th, 2008 at 9:54 am
Coco… posh is good. I love posh. (sadly I now have to go and resusitate Mr C&C who has choked on his muesli
)
August 9th, 2008 at 9:54 am
c and c
Wish I could persuade someone I’d written all your books as well as all your posts on Anorak!!
Have a good Saturday everyone. Working today. Out this evening.
August 9th, 2008 at 9:54 am
Chenier
The you’re trusted PJ, and the 2 months before sealing off the apartment. Could you explain?
Cheers babe
August 9th, 2008 at 9:49 am
coolandcalm Says:
August 9th, 2008 at 9:34 am
Morning Garth…. I see the old chestnut of you being Gandolf and Gandolf being you has been regurgitated again!
Apparently there is only one person in the whole wide world who thinks the McCanns didn’t do away with their daughter and that person is here, typing away 24/7 using different names.
Gee it wears me out sometimes, all this talking to myself!
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Are you saying that I’ve been talking to the same person all this time?
Blimey Coco is right………. you are clever……… I always wondered how she typed so fast!
August 9th, 2008 at 9:48 am
Garth Says:
August 9th, 2008 at 9:40 am
I was merely saying question your own nature before you start to preach.
You cant do that obviously.
And quite frankly, to tell me or anybody for that matter that we dont know your business is, to my eyes, a cop out. We never asked to know.
If you cant debate openly and honestly then dont debate!
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You were NOT merely saying I must question my own nature … you implied that I have a vile nature! By saying this you indicate that you know me - well no Garth you don’t!
Just because my concerns and interests lie with Madeleine, and I repeat … I have no sympathies for her parents …. does not mean I am a vile person!
If you don’t want to debate with me, then don’t answer my posts …. I debate as best I know how in a 2nd language - if you have a problem with this, you know what my name looks like, scroll down!
And I have no idea what a cop out is ….