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?





January 31st, 2008 at 8:42 am
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Madeleine: Investigation a ‘fiasco’ as bungling Portuguese police fail to send crucial documents to British authorities
By VANESSA ALLEN - More by this author »
Last updated at 07:45am on 31st January 2008
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January 31st, 2008 at 8:53 am
“Madeleine: Investigation a ‘fiasco’ as bungling Portuguese police fail to send crucial documents to British authorities
By VANESSA ALLEN - More by this author »
Last updated at 07:45am on 31st January 2008
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The Madeleine McCann investigation has been branded a fiascoas it was revealed Portugal’s Attorney General had not sent crucial documents to the British authorities.
Portugal’s most senior law official has failed to send vital legal documents to Britain and police claim the delay has brought their investigation to a standstill.
Embarrassingly, detectives leading the hunt were convinced the documents were sent three weeks ago and had briefed journalists that Home Secretary Jacqui Smith was to blame…
Hahahahahhahahahahahahahahahaha
Hahahahahhahahahahahahahahahaha
Now, two thoughts….
are any of those who have been telling us that the Portuguese were amazingly competent, despite all the evidence to the contrary, still feeling that way?
And why, exactly, do you think that the Attorney General’s office decided to sit on the letter - could it be nervousness about exposing the lack of evidence to EuroJust and the Home Office?
January 31st, 2008 at 8:57 am
Oh,
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“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?”
look back at your own reports of the 4th to 10th January……
January 31st, 2008 at 8:57 am
Annie
Well well - who’d a thought it?
January 31st, 2008 at 8:58 am
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Annie_M
Oh,and you believe in that ???
Till later
January 31st, 2008 at 8:59 am
How convinient
Always blame the Police ,it’s what All CRIMINALS do
January 31st, 2008 at 9:01 am
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can’t say no Says:
January 31st, 2008 at 8:59 am
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Another quick break?
January 31st, 2008 at 9:02 am
Can’t say no….
It’s been confirmed, according to Correio da Manha, by the Attorney General’s office…..
January 31st, 2008 at 9:03 am
Im really not surprised the letters are ‘missing’. You dont seriously expect our government to keep anything safe and secure do you?…the letters are bound to be ‘lost in the post’ or such like!
January 31st, 2008 at 9:04 am
A source close to….. - unnamed
A spokeswoman for…. - unnamed….
Sigh…