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 5:30 pm
Sam! I am one of those people who will always have to work - but apparently they need people like me!!! Unbelievable - but true! lol
September 21st, 2008 at 5:28 pm
coco, sounds brave to me, would you work there ?
September 21st, 2008 at 5:27 pm
If I don’t go now my Hubby will be putting all my old rakes and blunt shears in the scrap - so toodle oo! BUT - I will be back …. back …. back … lol X
Pam - I promise to be more pleasant - if you stop posting underhanded rubbish and stop trying to get vulnerable posters like myself to spill the beans on Anorak.
Truce? Yvonne Martin?
September 21st, 2008 at 5:23 pm
Chenier …… I forgot to say that my house will not only be half the price that it was - but I get extra discounts now that the errrrrrr …….. banks are foreclosing more quickly!
So I have a lot more to gain tee hee! But I won’t gloat about it - much!
September 21st, 2008 at 5:21 pm
CHENIER ……. I know you are right. I have not just cut this Hag a lot of slack - I have cut it on the bias for extra stretch and she is still pinching extra.
I feel I have been too kind to be honest - but I will try harder! I promise!
September 21st, 2008 at 5:18 pm
Professor Pam Full of Piss and Wind Says:
September 21st, 2008 at 5:12 pm
“I am hoping to emigrate to the US next year - and this Hag is making me scared!”
Good. Stay well away.
Why, I was just in the laundry room, where God speaks to me, and She very clearly referenced you and a little known bit in Revelations about the backside of one of the four horsemen’s mounts, and, well, yes. Just stay put.
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You are a liar and should beware of false Prophets!
God said that he has never spoken to you! Ever! In fact he said that he is going to be pushed to find a space for you in his land of many mansions!
So it looks like you may only have a gardener’s toilet to live in!
September 21st, 2008 at 5:18 pm
Coco
In fairness to our transatlantic posters we must bear in mind that they are under considerable stress at this time; if someone doesn’t gag Mr Paulson soon he will be offering to repay the $5 trillion Tsarist debt held by three eccentric billionaires in Manhatten on the grounds that it vitally affects the lives of ordinary Americans.
It must be unnerving watching you and yours being consigned to the Pennsylvanian salt mines in perpetuity to pay it all off; cut the poor things some slack…
September 21st, 2008 at 5:14 pm
sam Says:
September 21st, 2008 at 5:04 pm
coco, steph is usually a female abreviation though. i think.
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I have a male friend called Stephan and because Steph was so malefic - it just seemed to fit! You may be right though!
The reason I want to emigrate is because I think the UK is swamped in nonsensical bureaucrasy.
Even though I am in a far better position than a lot of people - I can feel the fear and hopelessness coming.
In a past life I think I was one of the hordes that sailed over to the US to escape Cromwell!
The class sysyem in the UK will never change - even though I now hear people thinking that they are middle-class because they have a mortgage and a swimming pool! lol
I want to live on the banks of a lake in a wooden cabin - if I did that here - I would live in fear of being raped and burgled!
September 21st, 2008 at 5:12 pm
“I am hoping to emigrate to the US next year - and this Hag is making me scared!”
Good. Stay well away.
Why, I was just in the laundry room, where God speaks to me, and She very clearly referenced you and a little known bit in Revelations about the backside of one of the four horsemen’s mounts, and, well, yes. Just stay put.
September 21st, 2008 at 5:10 pm
i’ve been there. i wasn’t impressed. must go shove chicken in oven now.
September 21st, 2008 at 5:08 pm
coco, are you seriously thinking of emigrating there ? why ?
September 21st, 2008 at 5:07 pm
mister muscle with bleach is pretty good too.
September 21st, 2008 at 5:06 pm
Saul Says:
September 21st, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Or coming on a screen in front of them!
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LOL! LOL! LOL! - Especially when the odd Hag is around to encourage and heat it up for them.
Will somebody inform PPPPPPPPP Pam that although she may be considered funny in her own circles - we don’t find her even vaguely amusing!
I am hoping to emigrate to the US next year - and this Hag is making me scared!
September 21st, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Yes, but Coco wishes you to think he is a woman as well. This is what I believe they call a “Freudian slip”.
September 21st, 2008 at 5:05 pm
oh aye, nothing like a bit of polish.
September 21st, 2008 at 5:04 pm
Mr and Mrs Sheen again make an appearance. They would soon clear thıs case up.
September 21st, 2008 at 5:04 pm
coco, steph is usually a female abreviation though. i think.
September 21st, 2008 at 5:02 pm
So, back to the “Polish couple” bit: there’s a Polish (maybe) couple seen photographing and then in the beachside restaurant, there’s a Polish couple with unpublished photographs (maybe) from the tapas restaurant, there’s a Polish couple seen arguing in the roadway and carrying a comatose child (maybe), there’s a Polish couple staying in the resort, there’s a Polish couple who brought a labrador (maybe) for incineration, but it was sent to Lisbon to be burned.
How many couples are we talking about? Does anyone know if any of these are the same?
September 21st, 2008 at 5:01 pm
OK, I appreciate there may be something of a gender divide on this one…
September 21st, 2008 at 5:01 pm
coco, wouldn’t know but wouldn’t suprise me either.
September 21st, 2008 at 5:00 pm
MN
I wouldn’t say I am fit, just trying to keep the tide of time in abeyance. Luckily I have inspiring and pleasant scenery to enjoy so it isn’t really a chore, though the first 5k is uphill.
September 21st, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Or coming on a screen in front of them!
September 21st, 2008 at 4:59 pm
Sam! I had already apolpogised for the fact that he may have come from East Germany! Trust me - he ain’t no German! But he has got a Doppelganger!
September 21st, 2008 at 4:59 pm
Saul,
Shouldn’t that be coming to a sun-screen near you?
September 21st, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Pam
Unbend the first C a bit and you have it - Loco.
September 21st, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Sorry–”fais”
September 21st, 2008 at 4:55 pm
And here the Cajuns say “faits do do,” but it’s usually in the context of going wild (dancing and partying)–pretty much the opposite of sleeping.
September 21st, 2008 at 4:54 pm
yes coc, just one bbq this year. the roses ruined by the rain but some are perking up, but the ones that flower just once a year wreaked of course. blackberries, too soft unfortunately and the pears failed too. mind you, i had five plums. strangly i have strawberries in a pot that are still flowering.
September 21st, 2008 at 4:54 pm
Pam Says:
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*
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JUST LIKE I FUCKING WELL SAID!!!!! There’s not a lot they can do with mine!
September 21st, 2008 at 4:52 pm
Brıtain`s got Biker Boys.
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