Madeleine McCann: Let Us Pray, Light The Way, It’s A Year Today
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
THE SUN (front page): “MADDIE: 1 YEAR ON”
A year of headlines, sensation and speculation. A year of Watching The Parents.
DAILY MIRROR (front page): “LIGHT A CANDLE FOPR OUR MADDIE”
And leave a chair empty at the dinner table, too? And when should the candle be lit?
“9:15 tonight… A YEAR ON”
Did you light a candle a year after 7/11, the end of the Falklands War, the Hillsborough disaster?
Did the Mirror forget to tell you to?
It is “A DAY TO PRAY”.
FIONA PHILLIPS: “A year ago today Madeleine McCann’s mummy and daddy, Kate and Gerry, became victims of the most colossal crime.”
Mummy and daddy… Are Mirror readers being asked to empathise with Madeleine? The fact is, it could. It could happen to any of us.
Grip hands tighter. Avoid Portugal. Spread the anxiety. The rare crime of a chid abduction, as Phillips supposes, might find a victim in your child.
I fill my car up with petrol and sometimes leave the children in the back when I go and pay for it. It could happen to me.
I’ve seen mums chatting to friends in supermarkets and on busy pavements while their children wander off. It could happen to them.
It happened to the McCanns in a child-friendly, family holiday village. It could happen to you.
YORKSHIRE POST: “The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, has written a special prayer to mark the first anniversary of Madeleine’s disappearance.”
Church of England PR?
Father God, we pray for Madeleine McCann Keep her safe and take away her fear and anxiety May your holy angels guard and protect her We pray that she may be reunited with those who love her Give hope to all her loved ones And hear our cry for her safe return We offer our prayer in the name of the Good Shepherd Jesus Christ, your Son and our Lord. Amen.
DAILY TELEGRPAH: “McCann haters - the lowest of the low”
SIMON HEFFER:
Just when one thinks one’s capacity for shock is exhausted, one reads some of the charming, expletive-rich comments sent to Kate and Gerry McCann in the last year since their daughter Madeleine evaporated in Portugal. I know some nutters are convinced they killed her, which I am equally convinced is balderdash: but what shocks me is that even those who accept that someone else abducted her cannot resist delving into the still-open wound the McCanns have, and attacking them for their supposed negligence on that evening last May.
I try to envisage the sense of smug satisfaction these people have when the letter is posted or the send button pressed on the email: but, despite a long study of human degeneracy, I simply can’t.
THE SCOTSMAN: “In the shadow of the bogeyman”
There is no such comfort for my children’s generation. They know the worst can happen because it did. The bogeyman came and took Madeleine from her bed. And for weeks on end they could not turn their heads nor take a breath without being reminded that he had. The press picked up our fear and shone it back at us.
THE GUARDIAN: “Services to mark year since Madeleine vanished”
His wife added: “It’s funny in some ways, because you kind of think it’s just another day, really, almost like a media landmark than anything else. But I think we’ve maybe underestimated it, and it’s probably more significant than we felt. I don’t think we’ll know until the morning really what feels right.”
NEWSWEEK: “TABLOID FODDER - One year after Madeleine McCann disappeared in Portugal, lurid reporting continues to cash in on her disappearance.
She’s so famous that she only needs one name: Maddie.
Or Maddy?
Her image—those trusting eyes, that innocent grin, the shiny blond hair—haunts Britons, who may think that by now, they’ve heard everything about Madeleine McCann, the young British girl who vanished from a holiday resort in Portugal’s Algarve one year ago Saturday. Her disappearance is probably the most intensely followed mystery in modern British history. Tabloid sales skyrocket with coverage of even the most minor details, which could be why Kelvin MacKenzie, the former editor of The Sun, has called it “the most significant story of my lifetime.”
May 3rd, 2008 at 8:10 am
First, and I don’t even post here?
May 3rd, 2008 at 8:11 am
Second??
May 3rd, 2008 at 8:14 am
Third is just greedy.
May 3rd, 2008 at 8:26 am
The early gooseburger…
May 3rd, 2008 at 8:26 am
Sod off then. I post here so officially
FIRST!
May 3rd, 2008 at 8:29 am
No. I think it’s an odd bird with malicious intent.
May 3rd, 2008 at 8:29 am
Greedy burger !!!
May 3rd, 2008 at 8:31 am
I am never first, second or third.
are all the other posters in rothley church supporting the Mcconns today?
May 3rd, 2008 at 8:37 am
Think they’re all out shopping - stocking up on candles
May 3rd, 2008 at 8:42 am
Good morning again all
I was on the yesterday thread,blabblering on my own
Correcto! All out to buy candles….anyway,about lights and candles,I re post the sun article from the other thread
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/maddie/article1121720.ece
“A light went out in the lives of Kate and Gerry McCann that day.”
yeah…the least we can say,NOT very enlightened…
“…And as the nation remembers Maddie on the first anniversary of her disappearance, her heartbroken mother Kate has urged thousands worldwide to shine a light in her memory”…..
The Nation???..meanwhile, her heartbroken parents are calling to people,inciting them to committ a crime,yet an other one …
Still no news from clarrie? May be he is in a monastry??
May 3rd, 2008 at 8:45 am
Morning Jo
May 3rd, 2008 at 8:48 am
I knew,clarrie is far too quiet!!
You might have listened to this
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/7378010.stm
all about money-money-money more money
Warning about forums and libels ,lawyers aware of it
We are all aware,sure,we are
May 3rd, 2008 at 8:53 am
How old are Fiona Phillips’ readers?
May 3rd, 2008 at 8:54 am
Hi Duncan
The last spin about incitement to crime is rather worrying but the PJ is aware of it
“According to a source of the Public Ministry in Lisbon, “the appeal by the couple McCann is the equivalent of an incitement to crime, because all the witnesses must respect the secrecy of justice and must not reveal information in the dossier, except in cases provided by law. ”
PJ watching
Do the mccanns realise what they are doing? I cant believe their lawyers did not tell them NOT to do this! Unbelievable
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:05 am
Morning
“and attacking them for their supposed negligence on that evening last May.”
Supposed ????????????????????????????????????????????
In Fact:
Leaving 3 children under 4 alone in a apartment (unlocked or locked) and go out for drinking is, say a mother,negligence !
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:08 am
If you have anything to say,please,help yourself,here is the “hot number”
+448458384699
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:13 am
first?
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:14 am
http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=MVUnMtW9ciI
Kate just cant express her emotions,if any
Rothleys children do it for them… It is time they are stopped because they are truly damaging people everywhere they can
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:14 am
Bugger!!
Jo - I am soooooo frightened - the pink one says he has ‘ways to deal with’ us who post on ‘cesspits’.
SCARY… do you think they’ll go after my kids???
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:15 am
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jo Says:
If you have anything to say,please,help yourself,here is the “hot number”
+448458384699
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Dial 1 for “Nasty”, 2 for “Nutty” and 3 for “Psychics
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:15 am
I know, the bit about asking for legally privileged information is as staggering as it is blatant.
The thing with spin is that after a while even the British begin to see through it. I mean, in WWII we used to listen to Jerry’s broadcasts to get some sort of median view for ourselves, so we’re not exactly pre-disposed to spin if that’s what we did in the 1940s.
You can fool some of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time. They should write that on Blair’s tomb, but given what happened to him in the end regarding spin and being phony, it does not bode well for anyone trying to follow in those footsteps.
I also think that today is probably the last overt Media support day, the Tabs seem to be taking on board the weight of public-opinion and are trying to shift positions on it.
The McC’s were advised not to give out details like the coloboma or pictures by the police, they ignored that (and yet rely on FOLLOWING what the police said re. No emotion, make your minds up, lol). They were advised by their Portuguese lawyers not to talk about any deals, since as they (lawyers) announced none were offered, they still are doing that (Deal allegations to elicit sympathy). They were advised not to put rewards up, since they lead to false leads, yet they did that too, they were advised to not do a lot of things, obviously they know better than them, us and everyone else.
So they seem to like ignoring advice a lot, at some point there has to be a price to pay, if my own experiences of life have any relevance.
Also, making public stuff like the twins vowing to find Maddie, I find utterly revolting since, if it’s true they seem to be involving children far to young to be exposed to such things (like the rescue Maddie game), and if false or true, it’s just blatantly using the twins again for mediatic effect.
Again demonstrating to some of us “as parents” just how selfish these people make themselves out to be. I thought that the twins were being kept out of this.
Another case of “make your minds up”.
Some of the people some of the time…. that’s the problem with spin, especially since it’s become so passe in UK life. Bingo isn’t though (allegedly).
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:15 am
Duncan / June / AGW
will you support us in court??
We could have that party we’re always going on about…
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:18 am
‘. . . some of the charming, expletive-rich comments sent to Kate and Gerry McCann’
All right, you lot. Own up. Who was it? No use hiding at the back. I can see you. C’mon, which one of you has been naughty - sending nasty notes to that nice couple?
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:19 am
How is G.Browns popularity in the UK right now?
It is not off topic
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:23 am
Duncan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR4PGt9oOto
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:25 am
19 -Noseycow
‘ . . . do you think they’ll go after my kids???’
++++++++++++++++
Would anyone else want them
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:30 am
Can anyone, anywhere, religious or not explain to me what lighting a candle actually does to assist in the search for a girl missing in Portugal a year ago ?
Can anyone, anywhere, religious or not, explain to me why praying is thought to assist in the search for a girl missing in Portugal a year ago ?
I assume that under the doctine of One God, we are praying to the same God who allowed, or since he is omnipotent, actually caused whatever happened to Madeline; who has allowed or caused whatever she has suffered since; and who has decided that up till now He will not reveal her whereabouts.
And a prayer is supposed to change His mind ?
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:32 am
Duncan
Probably not. Forunately
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:35 am
Apparently Haynes Hubbard is leading the service today in PdL . How come? I thought he was Anglican and they are supposedly devout Catholics(lol)! What has happened to the Catholic input? Or is this going to be like the last big church service in England where there was no Catholic representation. What does the Pope know that we dont know about the case!!??
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:36 am
PeterMac
There have been a few scientific studies done on the power of prayer.
It has been shown that patients who are prayed for, even without their knowledge, recover quicker and have a better prognosis that those who are not prayed for.
I’m not aware that they have done a similar study to know whether mass prayer would affect the chances of an ‘abducted’ child being returned.
Perhaps this is what G McC is researching at the moment.