Madeleine McCann: Without A Trace Newspapers Fight For Maddie
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
FIREFOX NEWS: “Review — Without a Trace : Rise And Fall”
But no sooner have the team started looking for her than a little girl disappears from a shopping mall in New York. Her name is Maddie and right away, I thought “they’re not comparing this to the Madeline McCann kidnapping case in Portugal are they?”
Maybe. Or maybe it’s really her?
As someone on TV.com said, it was if the Without A Trace producers were implying that if the FBI were involved in the McCann case, then Madeline would have been found. So I hope that the name thing was just a coincidence.
Without A Trace is a fly-on-the-wall TV show, with which someone goes missing and one hour later – with breaks for adverts – is found alive and well. If only these coppers had been scrambled earlier…
THE GUARDIAN: “What it means for the press”
Peter Wilby wonders… if newspapers are heading for the dustbin…
Anorak says (on November 13th the new Anorak is coming to get them…)
In America, Gannett, the largest newspaper publisher (and owner of the British Newsquest), proposed to lay off 10% of its workforce; Time Inc proposed to cut 600 jobs; the Christian Science Monitor dropped daily print publication. Here, the Wolverhampton Express and Star, the highest-selling regional paper, announced 10% cuts while Express Newspapers tried to persuade more than half its subeditors to volunteer or redundancy.
Grim news. If any of these hacks and hackettes want to work for Anorak, do get in touch… But what is the point of newspapers?
He then does the doable by linking the big news story of the day - Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross’s prank call - with Madeleine McCann.
The Mail is hypocrisy on stilts. It claimed to find the broadcast offensive and hurtful to a 78-year-old man, but it ran the YouTube video of it on its website. It denounces cruelty and sadism while highlighting the tiniest physical flaws of anyone in the public eye, particularly women.
Here it comes…
It demands BBC heads should roll, but no Daily Mail executive was sacked when it was among 11 papers forced to apologise and pay damages to Robert Murat and two others over the Madeleine McCann case.
Ah, yes , the enlightened and not at all opportunistic Guardian.
Madeleine McCann: A child is missing - but not from the news…
Russell Brand And Child Star In Live Sex Broadcasting Storm
Russell Brand Is The Vegetarian’s Starter Kit
Jonathan Ross Telethon: BBC Talent Donates Salary To Good Causes
Taxi For Piers Morgan: Washing Jonathan Ross’s Dirty Letters In Private
Russell Brand Was Once With The BNP
Hamsters for Brand
Madeleine McCann: Jonathan Ross, A Chorus Of Disapproval And Gerry McCann’s Phone Calls
The Madeleine McCann Location Device And Finding Brand And Ross
Madeleine McCann, Peter Mandelson And Russell Brand
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November 4th, 2008 at 9:27 am
New thread.
November 4th, 2008 at 8:56 am
Good morning all !!
Yes, brandon.
Murkier and murkier by the day.
LC’s Lawyer is as changable in his “stories” as is Ms Tanner.
November 4th, 2008 at 8:49 am
Its just so bizzare!
November 4th, 2008 at 8:42 am
2008-11-04
“Gonçalo Amaral is the target” - Correio da Manhã
Joana Case: Carlos Anjos, president of ASFIC/PJ, denounces
by Henrique Machado
Five Polícia Judiciária inspectors are on trial over torture on Leonor Cipriano, but the plaintiff’s lawyer, who got involved in this case under orders of the McCanns’ detectives, has already tried a deal. “He proposed to our lawyer that we let Gonçalo Amaral ‘fall’ and in exchange he would redraw the torture accusations against the other four inspectors”, denounces Carlos Anjos, the president of the PJ’s union. And Aragão Correia also confirms: “If the other four want to confess that it was him who gave the order to assault…”
First, “the strange lawyer swap” of Leonor at the beginning of the trial. Then, “the new lawyer, who even admits to having already been paid by the McCann couple’s detectives, attacks exclusively Gonçalo Amaral. When what is the issue is the supposed torture of the plaintiff by other PJ inspectors”. And finally, Carlos Anjos lost his doubts with the “dishonest attempt at a deal”.
Aragão Correia, according to the president of ASFIC, “allows for the conclusion that Gonçalo Amaral is the target. He is only worried about trying the inspector who participated in the investigation into the McCann couple, within the Maddie case, instead of trying the supposed assault on his present client…”
Carlos Anjos advances that ASFIC’s reply was ‘no’. “The five are innocent, and we are either saved together, or we fall as one. This lawyer has worked for Método 3. Then, he tells that the McCanns, or someone on their behalf, asked for him to get interested in the supposed assault on Leonor. That he should discover what Gonçalo Amaral’s role in the entire case was. And now this proposition…”
“Photos of Leonor may have been taken after the 15th”
Apart from the fact that it is “clear” to Carlos Anjos that Gonçalo Amaral “is the target to shoot down in this trial”, the president of ASFIC/PJ recalls that “the only persons who have always maintained the same version, because they speak the truth, are the inspectors. Just listen to the constant contradictions from Leonor – as well as the indications that were given by the director of the prison in Odemira for a service information from the chief of the guards about Leonor’s health condition to be altered. But the stupefying fact is that the person who is on trial for falsifying a service information is an inspector [António Cardoso]. It is already proved that Leonor’s confession [over the death of her daughter Joana] is dated the 13th of October 2004, not the 14th, like the Accusation says, and there is nothing to sustain that the photographs [of the violence marks on the body] were taken on the 15th. They may have been taken days later. The PJ delivered Leonor back to prison only with a few scratches.”
“If the others say that he gave the order…”
Aragão Correia, the present lawyer for Leonor Cipriano who had already admitted to getting involved in the case at the request of the McCanns’ detectives, also recognizes to CM that he tried “to reach a deal” with the five policemen’s defense for the other four to incriminate Gonçalo Amaral. “I confronted the lawyer of the other four inspectors [three of which stand accused of torture and one of falsifying the service information] and I told them that if they wanted to confess that it was Gonçalo Amaral who gave the order to torture Leonor Cipriano, we could try to reach a deal…” Aragão Correia says that “this is normal in any process” – and he refuses to admit that the persecution of Gonçalo Amaral is related to the McCanns. He approached the case on request of the couple’s detectives, but now he guarantees that nobody is paying him.
Details
Employees heard – The trial of the inspectors who stand accused of torture over Leonor Cipriano continues today at the Court of Faro, at 9 a.m., and the testimonies of a prison guard, of the doctors who observed the victim and of the two employees who took the photographs of Leonor’s body at Odemira prison are expected.
Different accusations – Despite Gonçalo Amaral being the target of Leonor’s lawyer, the former investigator of the Maddie case answers over the less serious crimes of omission of denunciation and false testimony. It is Leonel Marques, Marques Bom and Pereira Cristóvão who stand trial for torture. Concerning António Cardoso, the accusation sustains that he falsified the service information.
“We are innocent” – Carlos Anjos never had any doubts about the interest that moves Leonor’s lawyer in the process, yet he clarifies: “The only deal that we accept is the one to clear the five PJ inspectors. We are innocent.”
source: Correio da Manhã, 04.11.2008
November 4th, 2008 at 8:01 am
Shannon Matthews was not “missing”. She was reported ‘missing’ by her mother. There is a difference, which I think forms part of the prosecution case.
November 4th, 2008 at 5:45 am
Jings crivvens help ma boab!……………..whatever next………..
http://tinyurl.com/637xns
November 4th, 2008 at 12:44 am
Obama’s granny is dead. Is it a coincidence?
November 3rd, 2008 at 10:00 pm
still zzzzzzzzz… ?
Good night
November 3rd, 2008 at 8:27 pm
Sooo you couldn’t cope with my harmless little posts. Why? There was nothing libellous contained therein and you know it. Interesting that the truth is so upsetting for the Anorak M&A. I will be glad to escape to more neutral territory and leave the highly pro factions on this site to censor free speech and see libel where there clearly is none. The truth isn’t to be found here.
I didn’t realise that the Anorak team were so adoring of Team Mccann. I had been warned. However, I won’t stoop to the swearing and aggression that you allow on this site so happily. All I will say is ‘woof’.
November 3rd, 2008 at 7:18 pm
Leics finest conned ?
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20081031/tuk-man-jailed-over-agent-007-fantasy-45dbed5.html
November 3rd, 2008 at 6:48 pm
pam d , go elsewhere then . or you are free to mention the other missing children if you wish , there are other topics you can read on here so why not go there ?
November 3rd, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Wondrous, I like wondrous. Would not want to be associated with the others, be their spelling right or wrong.
November 3rd, 2008 at 6:12 pm
m& a there are millions more missing children whose parents did not go out and leave them alone so feature a few of these weekly instead of maddie.. how many more years are you going to mention her ?? please STOP.
M and A
Pam
The child matters, put her first.
We report and discuss what is in the Media, we aren’t a social welfare site.
BUT we are fully aware that a blonde pretty child with professional parents IS attracting more media space than say a plain dun coloured haired child ever would, and that is what bothers us.
We have concentrated/focussed on other missing children too, all of whom have been found, (sadly mostly dead) with the exception of Shannon Mathews, but her story is now Sub-Judice and cannot be discussed.
But with MM we are one of the few sites where discussion about her family is allowed (subject to libel conditions) is presented from both sides of the debate.
There are many sites where your view point and you would have been blocked.
BUT we are Anorak and we have many more topics, and you are not directed headlong into MM, choose your topics and join in.
November 3rd, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Would you prefer monsterous….disastrous or preposterous……..or just wondrous……
November 3rd, 2008 at 5:39 pm
disastorious is maybe even more to the point
November 3rd, 2008 at 5:29 pm
disastorous? hm … maybe that’s what it is, yes.
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Petronius………. as you were saying in your rather disastorous summing up……………………..only you missed out that the forensics did not corroborate the “alleged” findings by the dogs, also there is no official dismissal of abduction it is still one of the filed possibilities, anything else you need correcting on ……..let me know.
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:30 pm
exonerated - damn.
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:25 pm
Amaral is awaiting the verdict. If he is exoneraterd I will then read his book. I see no point in reading a book purporting to be the absolute truth unless the writer is above reproach.
Pity about the allegations that he beat his wife, if true it indicates that he has “Form”.
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:21 pm
M&A
Artemis obviously you feel the right decision is to remove the post, I will be the first to praise your work on Anorak and I truly appreciate your guidance.
Please feel free to remove my post .
Thank you.
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:16 pm
fog off git face
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:00 pm
brandon flours Says:
November 3rd, 2008 at 3:54 pm
40th
what today? Many congratulations
November 3rd, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Artemis,
I apologize if I’ve violated the rules. The other poster asked a series of questions which I attempted to answer–carefully–without libel or incitement, and bearing in mind your repeated admonishments to not fill the space with repetitive information, unnecessary links, and cut & paste.
I thought I’d achieved that, and I’m sorry that you disagree.
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M&A
Artemis
There is a considerable difference between unnecessary links and necessary links; if you wish to make claims of fact then you do need to try and get the facts right.
And be able to demonstrate that you got the facts right, by citing reputable sources. Unless you can prove the claims made in your post then those claims are libellous.
In England reporting on a trial which is still in progress is very greatly restricted; step outside those limits and reporters will find themselves in Court themselves.
I don’t know how the law applies to trials elsewhere, but I’m not keen to find out the hard way.
As far as I am aware the trial of Amaral for ‘failure to denounce’ still continues.
It seems not unreasonable to await the deliberations of the Court in Portugal.
November 3rd, 2008 at 3:54 pm
40th
November 3rd, 2008 at 3:29 pm
grande finale
Im ok now lol, I saw him and didnt realise. He was looking at me just like that pic
November 3rd, 2008 at 3:28 pm
MUMMY MUMMY ! pmsl
November 3rd, 2008 at 3:10 pm
what is it with anorak mentioning a negleted child ( maddie ) every single week.. Give it a rest
M and A
She is a missing child!
November 3rd, 2008 at 3:02 pm
Maybe the Quiz mistress has the answers ?
November 3rd, 2008 at 3:01 pm
yampster Says:
November 3rd, 2008 at 2:40 pm
“Mr Mochacho said members of the “Tapas Nine” – the group of friends dining with Kate and Gerry McCann on the night Madeleine went missing – were regulars at the restaurant, which has a terrace looking out across the Mediterranean”
That is some view as Portugal doesn’t have a Mediterranean coast
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Well spotted, also the stretch of water into the Med the “Gibraltar straight ” is one of the most highly monitored in the world ? nothing gets through there that the marine authorities don’t know about !
November 3rd, 2008 at 2:56 pm
brandon flours Says:
November 3rd, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Grande finale
You dont know how much that photo upsets me at the moment
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It was intended to make you smile ?
November 3rd, 2008 at 2:40 pm
“Mr Mochacho said members of the “Tapas Nine” – the group of friends dining with Kate and Gerry McCann on the night Madeleine went missing – were regulars at the restaurant, which has a terrace looking out across the Mediterranean”
That is some view as Portugal doesn’t have a Mediterranean coast