Madeleine McCann: The News Of The World’s Sorry Apology For Tabloid Reporting
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
HAVING read “the heartbreaking TRUTH that destroys the lies of Portuguese police”, the oh-so-caring News of The World tells its readers:
“We today offer Kate our immediate and sincere apologies.”
No need, surely..?
The News of the World only published extracts from Kate McCann’s private diary because it cares. It wants to help. It has investigated the case of her daughter’s vanishing and found that the Portuguese police are bungling and to blame.
Yeah, those sicko coppers like Goncalo Amaral who seek to profit from the McCanns agony by publishing books. Not sure how much Amaral’s book costs, but the NOTW is under a pound.
Says the paper:
“We published the extracts in the belief held in good faith that we had Kate’s permission to do so.”
Did the caring NOTW ask Kate McCann to publish extracts from her diary, or just think she would agree to it?
The extracts also appeared in The Sun, the NOTW’s sister paper. How did the paper come by them? A police leak? How the papers hate those:
THE SUN: “McCann cops deny ‘smears’”
The Sun: “Leaks, smears … now plane lies”
How the caring tabloids hate those leaks from the Portuguese police:
Madeleine McCann: Liz Hunt Wonders, The Leaked File And The End
As the NOTW explains:
“It is now clear that our belief was misplaced, and that, in fact, Kate neither approved of nor knew the extracts were to be published.”
“Belief”. Yeah, not fact, just an educated hunch…
That apology in full:
Last week we published extracts from Kate McCann’s diaries and explained in the article that we were doing so to “nail the lies” about Kate created by selective leaking from the diaries by Portuguese police.
No, not to make easy headlines, to keep the story alive and sell more newspapers (surely to keep Our Maddie in the public eye? - Ed).
We published the extracts in the belief held in good faith that we had Kate’s permission to do so. It is now clear that our belief was misplaced, and that in fact Kate neither approved of nor knew that the extracts were to be published.
Misplaced. Not wrong…
Upon learning of our error we immediately removed the extracts from our website and we today offer Kate our immediate and sincere apologies. We have agreed to make a donation to be used in the search for Madeleine. The News of the World remains wholly supportive of the McCanns and their continuing campaign to find their daughter.
Make a donation, or be sued, perhaps…
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September 21st, 2008 at 4:52 pm
Saint MN! Says: ‘He wants to sound like a prophet in the middle of a trance.
A lot of false prophets around.’
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He did admit to taking pills lol!
You are right about false prophets!!! He sounds like Clearance! lol
September 21st, 2008 at 4:51 pm
the real stig, 10 km ?, rather you than me
September 21st, 2008 at 4:49 pm
coco, im no expert in german i just speak the language and i did away with caps a long time ago. i’ve no idea if steph was or is genuine or not. but i think its odd one phrase was used, cant remember which now, but it wouldve caused a hulabullo normally. unless she was east german of course, totally differnt they are.
September 21st, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Sam! I have been so upset this year. If a rose lasted five days I was lucky - befor the rain came and bounced all the petals off. I have had four Conference pears - uneatable. My blackberries are like footballs and tasteless. The lawns have gone from bowling greens to meadows.
Really depressing! Have rarely eaten outside this Summer.
September 21st, 2008 at 4:48 pm
The Real Stig,
I never have a little “dodo” (we say “faire dodo” instead of “dormir” to children) after lunch. A 10 km’s walk is excellent. You must be very fit!
September 21st, 2008 at 4:47 pm
“Mine’s errrrrr ……. occo oocc ccoo cooc - so not a lot they can do with mine! lol”
It’s much like that sign we see often on churches here: “What’s missing in CH__CH?
U R!”
cUcoo*cUcoo*cUcoo*cUcoo*cUcoo*cUcoo*cUcoo*cUcoo*cUcoo*cUcoo*
September 21st, 2008 at 4:44 pm
marie n, good, have fun, it looks a neat peice of software.
September 21st, 2008 at 4:43 pm
SAM! I know - I still speak German here and there. You would have to have been here! lol - No self-respecting German would have used the cases and order that Steph used!!!
It was like somebody trying to pretend not to be Spanish!!! Hysterical.
September 21st, 2008 at 4:43 pm
coco, have fun, i am just lazing today, must prepare dinner shortly but it cooks by itself once in the oven. thankfully. i would go in the garden but it is depressing, all the tomatoes have failed due to the mildew, a month of rain we had. still one shouldnt complain considering the problems the farmers have in australia.
September 21st, 2008 at 4:43 pm
Coco, Steph is not more German than you or me. He thinks that speaking like a moron will give some weigh to his vague assertions. He wants to sound like a prophet in the middle of a trance.
A lot of false prophets around.
September 21st, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Hi Sam
September 21st, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Marie Nicholas Says:
“Don’t forget le petit dodo (the little nap) after lunch!”
I went for a fast 10k walk after lunch, no time for a nap.
September 21st, 2008 at 4:40 pm
The Real Stink Says:
September 21st, 2008 at 4:31 pm
MN
French Sunday lunch 11:50 - 15:40
Bon appétit indeed!
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It’s Big Brother time again!!!!!
There are more fucking watchers and referees on here than a World Cup match!
Fuck off Stinky Pants!
September 21st, 2008 at 4:38 pm
sam,
I also looked thanks to your link. There is something about “calories” (French Sunday lunch as the Real Stig points out). They give the results in several languages, amazing.
September 21st, 2008 at 4:36 pm
A Pastis Pastiche?
September 21st, 2008 at 4:35 pm
BBL Guys!
I wonder where LP are up to regarding looking after the British subject Madeleine?
Any other parent that we know would be battering the LP’s doors down and begging for them to just make sure that everything that can be done has been done. Would they not?
Surely, they cannot just let the AG leave it at this?
Surely LP don’t want to leave it at this themselves!!!!!!!!
Especially after a thoroughly decent social worker who was there at the time was so poorly treated by the Clannies!?
I am becoming more and more suspicious as my tablets are kicking in. As I become more and more well every day - I see great gaping holes and confusion. I feel like I am right in the middle of that book Jabberwocky! When all around are losing their heads …….. lol
September 21st, 2008 at 4:34 pm
The Real Stig
Don’t forget le petit dodo (the little nap) after lunch!
September 21st, 2008 at 4:33 pm
hi the real stig.
September 21st, 2008 at 4:32 pm
coco, word order is differnt in german, though that’s not my excuse.
September 21st, 2008 at 4:31 pm
MN
French Sunday lunch 11:50 - 15:40
Bon appétit indeed!
September 21st, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Saint MN! Where’s the German Steph with the really really bad word order???? lol
September 21st, 2008 at 4:25 pm
Grande Finale LOL! Exactly! The only trouble is - he’s not come out yet! Some kind of mother problems going on - I would warrant! lol
What kind of poster with the whole World at his fingertips would come along here day after day - and last night at about 3 30am - when he knows he doesn’t think like us and that we don’t like him????
He only has the Biker Botty Boys and the Hags for company - so what on Earth is he wasting time here for????
He should consider himself fingered! lol
September 21st, 2008 at 4:24 pm
marie n, i looked for your name but there are loads of possibilites
September 21st, 2008 at 4:19 pm
sam,
Thank you for the link.
September 21st, 2008 at 4:14 pm
coco Says:
September 21st, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Anagram generator shows his real name to be ” Anus Trip”
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The first time I saw this a while back - I had already felt his queeny ways. Having great friends who are homosexual - *I have to put him in a drawer of his own* though.
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I thought when Raspie came out……… it was from a closet ?
September 21st, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Yampster,
What do you find for me?
September 21st, 2008 at 4:10 pm
http://www.mbhs.edu/~bconnell/cgi-bin/anagram.cgi?cpw=1&phrase=
September 21st, 2008 at 4:09 pm
Got to go and sort my garage out now. It’s so full of junk I can no longer get the cars in. Last night I had to move a wardrobe to get the lawnmower back in.
I must tell everybody in the UK about Freecycle.com. All you do is put your item on and the area where you live - and within minutes - people are emailing you to come and collect!
One woman had a jar of sauerkraut on a while back! And a chap was giving away a brand new set off Laura Ashley sofas and curtains because they reminded him of his ex-wife. So get recycling. It’s completely free and you end up having your junk collected!
September 21st, 2008 at 4:08 pm
Well Coco, in Russian, “Rasputin” means what we call “débauché” (or crossroads too, to be honest). Why would someone chose the name of a dirty, gross, preacher monk, and see himself as bringing light to the world is difficult to make out…. Maybe because Rasputin, the real one, though he was so ugly, stinking and dirty, hypnotised his listeners, at least the stupid ones. Unfortunately for you, Rasputin number 2, we aren’t as stupid as you think. You should know, underestimating you ar adversary is a mistake, which only the not very bright ones make.
I like the anagram you found for him, Grand Finale!
September 21st, 2008 at 4:05 pm
no coco, not really.