Madeleine McCann: The McCanns, The Media, Bile And The Enigmatic Deadpan Film
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
DAILY MIRROR: “MADDY POLICE ‘PROBE ‘FAISCO’”
A letter of appeal from the Portuguese police requesting Kate McCann’s diary, Gerry McCann’s laptop, Madeleine McCann’s Cudle Cat and featuring a list of 100 questions for the “Tapas Seven” has not been sent. The paper says the police forgot to
The official are “bungling”. A “friend” says: “It’s a fiasco”
In Madrid “hundreds” of balloons were released “in honour of Madeleine”. And: “Children also held up pictures of the four-year-old”
Parents look on. Hands are held tighter. It could have been you. What is the purpose of this event? Is this spreading the fear and the anxiety?
THE GUARDIAN: “Before the dust settles - Movie-makers used to wait until news stories were over before moving in. Not any more, writes Peter Bradshaw”
“Gerry McCann has confirmed that he took a preliminary meeting with a representative from IMG, an entertainment agency associated with the company who made Touching the Void - although these particular film-makers have themselves denied any interest”
Will the film be made?
Asks Bradshaw: “How soon is too soon for a movie based on a news story? Two real events are threatening to transform themselves into celluloid with dizzying speed: the 2006 Securitas robbery in Tonbridge, over which a five-man gang was recently convicted of stealing £53m, and the kidnap of Madeleine McCann in 2007 - for which, of course, no one has been convicted at all”
What kind of film with the McCann movie be?
“If the Securitas film becomes a mockney geezer film, then the McCann film would almost certainly play in another mode entirely: the Enigmatic Deadpan genre. Family dysfunction documentaries such as Capturing the Friedmans and My Kid Could Do That are all the rage, and I wonder if the McCanns quite realise the manner of mysterious neutrality in which they would inevitably be represented? If the film is made now, the McCanns cannot expect any film-maker simply to state that they are innocent. The film would show their day-to-day campaign, and there would be plenty of interviews with them looking uncomfortable, lots of odd silences. There would, I suspect, be no voiceover, just plenty of unanswered questions hanging in the air. And this would not necessarily be in bad faith: without the case being cleared up, no other approach is possible”
ROY GREENSLADE: “The McCanns’ debate: from banality to an outpouring of bile”
Greesnalsde is at the “The McCanns and the media” debate.
Kelvin MacKenzie is speaking: “I was altogether less enamoured with his defence of papers, especially the Express titles, for publishing wildly inaccurate stories. Kelvin’s defence? Newspapers are commercial operations and you must expect them to publish stories calculated to increase sales. The temptation to ramp up circulation was too great to resist. That doesn’t wash with me at all”
Then: “Roger Graef, producer of Channel 4’s Dispatches on the mystery of Madeleine McCann’s disappearance, spoke of the surreal, Kafkaesque nature of making a documentary in which there were (and are) no facts and about which no-one has any genuine knowledge, including the Portuguese police”
But he still made a programme about it, nonetheless
In the crowd “The Madeleine Foundation showed a lamentable grasp of debating rules by interrupting speakers and shouting out a string of offensive comments about the McCanns and their PRs… They were the equivalent of those mobs outside courts in murder trials, deaf to facts, cocooned from reality by their own self-righteous demagoguery. Their major aim, outlined in a “manifesto” circulated within the lecture theatre, is to see the McCanns prosecuted for “abandoning” their children”
There is much prejudice in how many view the case of Madeleine McCann. Discuss…
DAILY EXPRESS: “New clue hope on Madeleine”
“Investigators” are “investigating new leads”
The private investigators want to speak with “potential new witnesses”. This, as the “WORLD’S GREATEST NEWSPAPER” reports, is “raising hope of a breakthrough”
How realistic this hope is, the Express does not say. Is everyone the detectives speak with a “potential” new witness? Are you? The Express does not say
THE SUN: “Maddie cops’ file blunder”- Offcials in Portugal “admitted” thay had failed to send a “key dossier” in the Madeleine McCann case to Home Secretary Jacqui Smith. This is so-called “letter of appeal”
But we do not hear any words from the police. How did they admit to their failure? Perhaps they are not yet ready to send the missive?
Madeleine McCann: Nine months of speculation
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February 2nd, 2008 at 11:47 pm
Remigius - How do we know that there is no evidence of an abductor? The police have not opened their files to the public. Surely, if there was credible evidence of an abductor, the police would be quietly getting on with tracking him down….they wouldn’t tell everyone!
February 2nd, 2008 at 4:07 pm
600 Garth
The problem with “talking abduction” is it requires that there be an abductor.
and there is no evidence of an abductor.
The parents make this claim, but there is no evidence.
That is why we talk about other possibilities.
February 1st, 2008 at 6:35 pm
OK, the next step is for the McCanns to be interviewed by police - British and Portuguese. Suppose that following that interview the PJ believe that there is a case to answer and wish to charge the McCanns (and maybe their friends) with some crime. Clearly the crime would be ’serious’ by any country’s standards. Almost certainly the McCann’s lawyers would advise them not to go to Portugal voluntarily - they would be daft to go actually, since the last thing the PJ did was to make them formal suspects.
Does anyone know what the procedure is, and how long it would take to extradite them?
It seems to me that the behaviour of officials on both sides is dilatory, is not in the public interest and is certainly not in the interests of the twins, who are becoming more aware as the weeks roll on. I don’t know what sympathy I have for the parents, but their children are wholly innocent. Indeed, if Gerry McCann does read these posts (must be grim reading for him if he does) or, maybe, a friend or supporter reads them, I would strongly urge them to go back to Portugal to clear this up.
February 1st, 2008 at 9:09 am
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Stevo
Yeah, whatever next, eh? Same old, same old…………………
February 1st, 2008 at 7:52 am
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February 1st, 2008 at 7:41 am
am I banned?
February 1st, 2008 at 7:38 am
see you all later.
gone fishing for the truth, which is more than can be said for some who have merely gone fishing.
ha ha ha
February 1st, 2008 at 7:33 am
all
see 725 from ………..
i think there is an asshole knocking at anorak’s door.
someone with nothing to contribute who can’t debate.
i for one i can’t be arsed to get up and let them in. anyone else feel like letting them in?
February 1st, 2008 at 7:24 am
an observer, Before I go fishing, I know who I am and I also know what you are, so the short of it is you are no loss to me or society, a jellyfish has more backbone than your ilk.
February 1st, 2008 at 7:19 am
sledgehammer in case you missed this on jan 30,
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who do you think you are asking the same question over and over to m&a and continuing to badger on the issues?
read the posts in the same thread after you posted your question the other day you will see there were a number of responses. imo, someone else gave creditable response on behalf of TB.
go fishing and don’t come back.
your contributions, if they can be called that, merely occupy valuable disk space and bandwidth.
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i will not respond to you again ever. i also propose all other posters don’t either. you contribute nothing to this debate.
[edit - obscenity removed. dr:]
any response to me will be ignored as you cannot be debated with.
February 1st, 2008 at 7:05 am
please everyone, no response to sledgehammer.
let him talk to him/her self. music to his own ears.
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GM - “we have been advised our behaviour was legally well within the bounds of responsible parenting”. throw up now or press laugh button here [(-)]
February 1st, 2008 at 6:36 am
can’t say no, Rene Hasee 1996 German child walking on the beach with parents….never found a trace of again . Can you tell us the outcome of this case, also in Portugal. Gone fishing.
February 1st, 2008 at 5:15 am
inspector gadget,
do you think fang would get along with eddie and keela?
February 1st, 2008 at 5:14 am
I too am speculating of course, I just think that the evening of the £rd would be too packed with activity to allow any cloak and dagger activities and that that particular evening was scripted. but not all that well.
February 1st, 2008 at 5:03 am
all
anyone who thinks the MC’s are really grieving or really searched for maddie would be well advised to go back thru the old anorak posts from inspector gadget.
gadget, please come back. this forum could do with your insightful observations and comments, and pitty’s too of course.
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GM - “we have been advised our behaviour was legally well within the bounds of responsible parenting”
February 1st, 2008 at 4:42 am
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veritablequandary Says
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i tend to favour the view that maddie was not “taken” on the 3rd by a “stranger”. i don’t go for the “stranger abduction” hypothesis myself.
what is your view?
February 1st, 2008 at 4:37 am
715 an observer Says:
there is speculation noone saw her on the 3rd except members of the t9. this is why there is so much debate about the “last” photo’s authenticity.
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“we have been advised our behaviour was legally well within the bounds of responsible parenting”
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speculation is one thing, but Markskidd said he/she is sure (but not sure which day, 1 or 2)
February 1st, 2008 at 4:35 am
714
veritablequandary Says:
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there is speculation noone saw her on the 3rd except members of the t9. this is why there is so much debate about the “last” photo’s authenticity.
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“we have been advised our behaviour was legally well within the bounds of responsible parenting”
February 1st, 2008 at 4:29 am
712 markskidd
“M died on May 1 or 2, I’m sure of it IMO”
What makes you sure?
February 1st, 2008 at 4:28 am
You’re wrong.
edited/rel dr:01.02
February 1st, 2008 at 4:27 am
stevo
you’re one of the intelligent posters.
Have you gone to your scratcher?
February 1st, 2008 at 4:19 am
M died on May 1 or 2, I’m sure of it IMO
February 1st, 2008 at 4:18 am
in Scotland, shouting can be interpreted as a form of abuse.
February 1st, 2008 at 4:16 am
maybe someone should ask children in need to get the twins. I live in Glasgow, I’m not a doctor and Cchild Welfare officers would be at my door if I shouted at them in public (and someone reported it)
February 1st, 2008 at 4:15 am
707
Stevo Says:
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the twins were sound asleep; nothing seemed to waken them on the night of the 3rd. how convenient.
February 1st, 2008 at 4:06 am
Patch
Yeah, it’s so weird that someone would take measurements on an equivalent sized child to Madeleine for scientific purposes of accuracy. Sheesh…that’s so disturbing to do that. Who did that? I’ll send for the straight jackets right away! Do you think I ought to order another one - for the poster in here who belly-ached and cried over another poster for 4 hours a couple of months ago? Whatever next eh?
February 1st, 2008 at 4:02 am
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markskidd
God help those twins is all I can say. Who knows what they’ve had to go through. I often wonder if M died on May 1 or 2, the twins would have to have been ushered someplace else or they’d wonder where big sister went to. Very weird…
February 1st, 2008 at 3:52 am
Bet Maddies card reads, ‘happy birthday Sean and Amelie!! get out of there, learn to read, call 08001111……now’
February 1st, 2008 at 3:46 am
485 trainer says
With the new time line of the Mc’s arriving at the tapas bar at 8.55-9.00
So they ordered some food and finished the quiz by 9.30 when gerry gets the girl who ran the quiz to join them, it all seams very rushed. The tapas bar bill will be intresting as even in little resorts they use computerised tills with time etc
i think the “not sure how many bottles of wine were ordered” is a PJ leak to put the whole tape 9 at ease, so they will all incriminate each other
We’re all playing at being detectives here but……
If any of the T9 are reading this forum then we’ve given them all a hint.
Why are we doing this?!!!!!!
February 1st, 2008 at 1:26 am
Don’t we love the tabloids ?
Card from Madeleine at McCann twins party
Telegraph
Gerry and Kate McCann will throw a birthday party for their twins tomorrow - complete with a card from their missing four-year-old daughter, Madeleine.
They want to give Sean and Amelie, who will be three, as normal a life as possible in the face of the continuing international hunt for Madeleine, who was abducted on holiday in Portugal. Around 30 family, friends and supporters of the McCanns’ campaign to find her have been invited to their home in Rothley, Leics.
Clarence Mitchell, the McCanns’ spokesman, said British police did not believe the couple were involved in her disappearance. He said Leicestershire Police child protection officers viewed the case as a “rare stranger abduction”.
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McCanns will search “up to the day of her death”
Correio da Manhã
Detectives of the Metodo 3 are back again in Praia da Luz
In the day in that the detectives of the Metodo 3 come back to the Ocean Club, in the Praia da Luz, in England the spokesman of the McCann couple guaranteed that Kate and Gerry will search small Maddie “up to the day of her death”.
Clarence Mitchell answered like this to the doubts of the journalists about the fund of barely two millions of euros, of where are taken weekly around 70 thousand euros fto pay the company of Spanish detectives, the advertising campaign and the maintenance of the site findmaddie.com.
Mitchell announced even if the British police and the officials of the social security services do not suspect of them regarding the disappearance of their daughter. “The authorities assured me that this is a case of rare and strange abduction”, explained the spokesman.
However, the English press classified the Portuguese inquiry as “a fiasco”, after it was known that the request letters are still in Portugal.
Tomorrow the twins Sean and Amelie do three years old, and the McCanns prepare a party despite of the absence of Maddie.
February 1st, 2008 at 1:17 am
Goodnight Val - We are on the same waivelength - I for one would love to come face to face with that pair of neglectors - guarantee I would beat the s-t out of them even if only for the fact that they left those poor little kids alone