Madeleine McCann: Kate McCann Weeps On Oprah Winfrey
THE McCanns, parents to missing Madeleine McCann, have been on Oprah Winfrey’s TV show.
The media reacts to the news surge in the hunt for Our Maddie:
The Sun: “Kate McCann breaks down on Oprah”
KATE McCann wept last night as she told TV’s Oprah Winfrey she did not recognise photos of how missing daughter Maddie would look now.
The artist’s impression is not all that good? See the pictures here. Meanwhile, we’re watching the parents:
But Kate insisted she WOULD know Maddie — who will be six next month — if she saw her in the street.
Any idea which street?
Computer-generated images of Maddie aged six in a blue dress flashed on to a giant screen as the show was recorded in front of a studio audience in Chicago. The pictures were created by experts at Virginia’s National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children.
It was an ‘I was there’ moment:
Audience member Chris Myers, 43, said: “Kate told Oprah she felt Madeleine was still alive. Oprah and Kate were very emotional. Kate broke down on two occasions. Oprah had to wipe tears away from her eyes at least three times. The atmosphere inside the studio was very sad.”
Which was, of course, the point of the interview, to create a mawkish arena for shared pain; to emote and transmit feelings through the magic box.
No scratch and sniff card for you watching at home to get the full Missing Child Experience of used tissue, regret and the antispetic sting of institutionalised pain, but just wait for the close up of Kate’s tears and make them work for you. Come closer:
Fellow audience member Amy Mundwiler, 33, added: “Everyone watching them felt their pain.”
Oprah Winfrey has reach, but is she big in Portugal, where the child went missing? Remember this, how Oprah won the bidding war?
The Guardian: “Corrections and clarifications”
A Weekend magazine feature about an investigation into events at the Jersey children’s home Haut de la Garenne mentioned the Madeleine McCann case in Portugal and said that after dogs trained to detect the scent of death had sounded the alarm over a car used by Madeleine’s parents, Portuguese police claimed that the couple had killed their daughter.
Oh?
We should have made clear that the McCanns were never charged in relation to the disappearance of their daughter.
Inded. And ther is no proof of a crime.
The article failed to distinguish between fact and opinion when it said that the dogs were misled by scent traces in the car from the McCann parents’ medical work. That was the opinion of a police source who had experience with the same dogs but no direct knowledge of the McCann case.
Oh, well, no harm done. It’s not like the Guardian is the Express or Star, or when the reporting into Our Maddie went nowhere…
Give me your tears - more tears for your fears. As Grrry McCann said:
“To see a front-page headline insinuating that you were involved in your own daughter’s disappearance was incredibly, unbelievably upsetting,” says Mr McCann.“We saw pressure particularly on journalists to produce stories when, really, there was nothing much to report. Madeleine was made a commodity and profits were to be made.”
And now a word from Oprah’s sponsors…
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Posted: 25th, April 2009 | In: Madeleine McCann, Media Comments (9) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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April 27th, 2009 at 9:51 am
…big insinuations there, m.e - can you back this up or is this just speculative b****cks?
April 25th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
m.e., what do you mean by your comment above? Granted, the apartment turned out to be far from a safe place to leave the child in but it wasn’t thought to be that when they left her and her siblings there alone. As ‘not subjected to what she was before she disappeared…’ you mean she was afraid being alone? I would have to agree as she was too young to be left alone and most likely was afraid without her parents there. However, if an unknown came into that apartment and took her out or found her outside wandering around looking for her parents that does not mean she is now in a safer place nor any longer fearful. Quite to the contrary!
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April 25th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
Perhaps it will indeed take 20-odd years for the truth to come out, as Cheryl says.
I hope other, intelligent, Americans also question the frankly bizarre McCann version of events.
April 25th, 2009 at 7:36 pm
But a crime has not been committed, granted a child is missing and maybe she wouldn’t be if her parents had taken more care. As that is the case I think it up to her parents to look for her.
I would be a lot more supportive of them had they been there, they chose not to be, and it could have been 3 children missing. There is no doubt whatsoever they were negligent, and shutting stable doors is too late.
My sympathies lie with Madeleine, and her siblings.
April 25th, 2009 at 5:45 pm
And police also take note in interviewing someone time and time again when the story doesn’t change, Petermac. Those two have stuck by their story they found their daughter missing…they have subjected themselves to horrible condemnation and speculations by many in the public with their public appearances and still have stood firm they found their daughter missing…they have been interviewed on TV programs over in Europe and now over here in the US and still have stood firm they found their daughter missing.
There are people who have spent years in prison and some even sat on death row because the police focused on them, developed tunnel vision and made up their minds they were guilty and made it their ’cause’ that they were prosecuted and found guilty. Why were they set free and some after 21 years in prison? Because some people in the public, lawyers and law students believed them and knew how low some police would go in their ‘over zealous prosecuting’ and took on their cause and proved them innocent beyond a doubt, by finding evidence that was ‘conveniently’ misplaced, disregarded or never existed to begin with that proved they did not commit the crime.
April 25th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
Yampster
Let’s see the footage, and see what they actually said. How well briefed Oprah was is anyone’s guess.
And there is always the possibility that she led them on, and challenged nothing, in the time honoured way of gentle Police interviews. You just let people speak, leave long silences, which people are unhappy with and try to fill, and go on and on until they get to a point at which they are so far removed from the facts as they can be truly ascertained that you can then cut down the whole edifice.
I wasn to see it, and the transcript. Urgently
April 25th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
Well, one certainly can’t say they are ‘putting one over’ on some of the brilliant sleuths on here for two years and running …
April 25th, 2009 at 10:45 am
From early reports it seems that they have managed to put one over on both Oprah and the previously infallible psychologist and walking lie detector Dr Phil.
Oh, and the dogs of course
April 25th, 2009 at 8:22 am
Can we see this on youtube yet, anyone know?