Madeleine McCann: She Speaks To Spaniard And BBC Scores Points
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
THE SUN: “Fury at Maddie ‘ghost chat’”
No, not a ghost chat show – it’s not a publicity stunt. It;s not even a follow up to the Daily Star’s front page screamer: “MADDIE GHOST VISITS MUM”. It’s:
A SICK comedy writer has sparked outrage by publishing a spoof interview with Madeleine McCann’s “ghost”. Jose Perez, 28, who writes for Spanish TV, reports in his online blog that Maddie — who vanished in May 2007 aged three — visited his house.
Spanish TV writer has an “online blog” on which he writes a sketch about Madeleine McCann. And what is a small girl doing in the home of a grown man? Is Perez Spanish for paedo?
Read all about it! Can the Sun delve any deeper and tell us who is furious about this, or, more to the point, who isn’t?
He said she criticised parents Kate and Gerry, saying: “I’m the business kid of the century. They’ve sold more T-shirts with my face on than Mickey Mouse. And what for? So my mum can leave her job and play Nintendo all day.”
And the fury?
Perez was inundated with criticism. One reader wrote: “You’ve no shame.”
For shame!
BBC: “Phones and fines top media’s 2008”
So what were those media stories about the media, the ones that get lots and lots and lots of, er, media coverage?
Express Newspapers had to pay the Find Madeleine McCann campaign £550,000 after libelling her parents, Kate and Gerry. Seven of their friends received a further £375,000, which was also paid into the fund.
And Robert Murat, wrongly accused of complicity in Madeleine’s disappearance, received £600,000 from 11 newspapers and a further payment from Sky News.
A comment on Our Maddie or a chance to bash Sky News?
Nah! The BBC would not stoop so low. Now it’s over to Jonathan Ross for the shipping forecast…
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December 30th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
I can only assume it was my support of AGW.
AGW! back! back! back!
Goodness, it is the pinky thing or are all the mods pissed or sleeping? Not in my day, etc etc
Moderator - The problem seems to be technical, nothing personal. Keep posting.
December 30th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
Hey coco
I would answer you with some manner of shite, but all my posts are not getting thru. You will maybe see this at some point.
December 30th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
Spongbob! I am only English when I want to be
”In Russia I am …… In England I am …..” Dink dink dink dink dink dink …….. Looks like we are about the same age then! lol Of course I remember ‘Why don’t you?’ as well. But I never switched off - just sat there watching all the kids on the tv having raucous adventurous times ……..
December 30th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
And here I was in Anorak prison, and I didn’t know why
With noone here to scorn me, I hang my head and cry
December 30th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
‘Pleeeeease Release me
(Bu bu)
Let….. Me Go
For, I, don;t love yooo
Anneeemoooorreeeee
Moderator
Released, locked up???????
December 30th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
I assume only selective vernacular slagging is allowed, moderators.
Where are my posts?
December 30th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
Aend Coco
Maye uii wish you ae nice dayeee
It must be sooo niiiice to be iiiingllish
December 30th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
About whom, my dear? Those who do not have a reasonable claim for libel?
December 30th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
Especially about them !!
December 30th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
Well its not often that the Sun prints anything derogatory !
December 30th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
Fuk me. That will change the world
“!!”
December 30th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
Och aye the noo! The Scots are canny canny canny!
December 30th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
Scottish Sun !! Published (Printed) a letter today condemning the McCanns and questioning why they were never investigated more thoroughly !!
December 30th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
TOTJE!!!! That is a serious chunk of libellous, illogical tripe that you have just written - again!
If you read The Files you will see quite clearly that apart from all the distractions created by the Clan in the immediate aftermath of the cadaver-scented abductor having done a bunk with MM - the investigation was carried out with all the meticulousness that would be expected from one of the most adept and ancient legal systems in the World!
I therefore expect you to retract this gross tripe as soon as you can. If MM’s parents and pals had given a toss about their children - then neither they nor the twins would have had a problem.
Amaral is a victim of his country’s inability to support him - and as a human being with human rights I hope he finds precisely why he has been victimised in this shoddy and despicable way.
All power to Mr.Amaral - What he has brought to light is about to change the free World!
This very case has proved beyond any doubt that the World-wide web and internet systems will never be the same again.Try finding old news about this case! If it hadn’t been copied by people who genuinely care about children and the law - we would be buggered for past information that fell from the lips of Clanny Sister Woman Philly - so rest your flawed case Totje.
Madeleine is a victim because she was left without adult supervision. Full stop. I will not be entering into your forays about how some posters are bullies in any way shape or form.
December 30th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
AGW…noone bothers with the wee nyaff.
But go-on, go-on, post again, with your own name, and under several others. You have been missed
December 30th, 2008 at 8:35 pm
For the record : mr Amaral blew it, the investigation. He seriously failed to solve the case and now he’s playing the victim card as well as cashing in on a tragedy. Well he’s not the victim, Madeleine is as well as her innocent family [the twins for instance].
December 30th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
There are certainly fewer posters
Here’s my NY Res….
“Why-yyy don’t you, why-yy don’t you, why don’t you
Just-switch-off-your-MM-Blogs-and-go-do-something-less-boring-instead”
Giving my age away now, eh?
December 30th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Elvera! Hi! - The Steph Meff is a poster who would prefer us not to pursue the case. But Mr. Amaral thinks it’s worth pursuing - and he was in charge of the investigation - so I have put all my money on him.
The odds aren’t really worth the effort - coz the bookies must be reading the continental Press
December 30th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
28 Silly Sally Says:
December 30th, 2008 at 12:14 am
To coco, the clown would that be?
Get a life, you are neither funny nor are you clever, so go crawl back under the rock you emerged from.
…………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Tut tut! I can be whoever you want me to be on here!
So what if I am not funny or clever? What has that got to do with the price of the Euro?
And by the way - I was already under a rock whilst writing last night.
I was under a great big rock - having a coffee and taking a break from pot-holing - for your information.
I wonder if the Clan have looked under all the stones they were supposed to be turning upside down yet! They certainly haven’t upturned the one that I was sat under - or all the other rocks that I am surrounded by!
For legal reasons - I cannot give out my co-ordinates of my whereabouts on the internet because the Thought Police might come and get me and lock me up in a room and take some pieces out of my brain.
Why don’t you want to help in the search Silly Sally? I wish I was as certain as you are that she cannot be found.
December 30th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
223 Steph Says:
December 30th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
“……… The pigs at ***edit drag even more innocent names into their silly games, can no one stop these pigs from wallowing in the filth of their sty which is ***edit***”.
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How would you know unless you’re also wallowing there…..hypocrite …or should that be Miss Piggy!
December 30th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
So AGW is not Gandolf. pity, Gandolf is very crisp and direct in his approach, like AGW. The pigs at ***edit*** drag even more innocent names into their silly games, can no one stop these pigs from wallowing in the filth of their sty which is **edit***
December 30th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
and here’s another
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/4030298/Car-containing-8-children-and-dog-in-crash.html
December 30th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
A bit more about neglectful parents -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nottinghamshire/7804354.stm
December 30th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Tuesday December 30 2008
THE grandmother of missing girl Madeleine McCann had a Christmas present ready for the five-year-old this year.
For the second Christmas in a row, Eileen McCann left a large pink teddy bear on Madeleine’s bed, as she clings to hope that she will return home.
Donegal-born Eileen, who lives in Scotland, is spending the holidays with her son Gerry, his wife Kate and Madeleine’s younger siblings, twins Sean and Amelie.
It is the second Christmas that the family is spending without Madeleine, and Eileen had predicted it would be difficult for everyone.
Asked how everyone is coping with the holiday season, she said “so, so”.
Last year, she decided that a huge pink teddy with a white heart on it, a gift to her from the Scottish government, would be her present for Madeleine.
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And just as she was about to travel to Leicester for the holidays, she told the Herald that she has held on to it all year, in the hope that Madeleine would return for this Christmas.
However, that now seems unlikely, and Mrs McCann said: “It’s still in my house. I keep it on the bed.”
Speaking from her home near Glasgow, Mrs McCann added: “I’m going down to stay with them [Gerry and Kate] for Christmas.”
She said that the McCann family will try to enjoy Christmas as best they can under the circumstances.
Several days before Christmas, the family released previously unseen footage of Madeleine playing with her brother and sister around Christmas 2006, the last one she spent with them.
She is seen interacting with her parents and the twins, and talking about her new pink shoes.
The little girl, who was three at the time, is seen playfully jumping up and down.
Meanwhile, the family’s friends in Ireland said they have been praying for the missing child over Christmas.
plight
Joe Peoples, who rents a pub from Eileen in the small village of St Johnston in Donegal, said that everyone is still thinking of her plight.
The McCanns regularly visited the area with their cousins and spent the Easter before Madeleine’s disappearance there.
“Kate and Gerry are hoping this might be their last Christmas without her and of course we are too,” Mr Peoples said.
December 30th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20081230/tuk-children-home-alone-at-christmas-6323e80.html
December 30th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
Three young sisters were found home alone on Christmas Eve. Skip related content
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The girls, who were all under the age of 10, were discovered by police home alone in Gorton, Manchester.
Their plight sparked a wave of sympathy among police staff and officers, who clubbed together to buy them Christmas presents.
Call handlers who learned that the girls had no presents or a Christmas tree in their home had a “whipround” and made a last-minute mercy dash to buy gifts before the shops shut on Christmas Eve.
Pam Wild, 50, a call handler for Greater Manchester Police, said: “I just couldn’t bear the thought of the children waking up on Christmas morning with no presents, so me and some of the girls had a whipround and got them some gifts.”
Officers also donated money, which was used to buy clothes and toys for the girls.
Mrs Wild wrapped the presents on Christmas Eve and they were delivered to the girls on Christmas Day at the address where they have been re-homed.
She said: “It was just something that anybody would have done. I love children and it wasn’t their fault that they didn’t get any presents. I just couldn’t wake up on Christmas Day knowing that these girls weren’t going to get anything.”
Her boss Andrew Massey said: “Our staff have gone out of their way to try and make it feel like Christmas for some children and it is nice to see this kind of spirit still exists in this time.”
A police spokeswoman said: “Police were called to an address in Gorton on Christmas Eve following concerns for three children. A 29-year-old woman who was arrested for neglect has been bailed until February 11.”
December 30th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
cool xxx
December 30th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Haven’t forgotten Brandon. The guy i’m getting them from sits right next to me at work so as long as he hasn’t forgotten they are yours!
I don’t think i’ll be doing much this new years eve although i just said why don’t we invite all the nct couples round and leave the babies in the lounge and we can have a party in the dining room!
December 30th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
karen yes i agree
Lone,
yes first one free and single for 20 years, cant wait for the new year
Dot forget my killers tickets and buy you a drink down the river when I give you the money x
December 30th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
Hi Lone
Congratulations again. x
December 30th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
happy xmas brandon - did you have a good one? It was pretty hectic here but good fun all the same.