Madeleine McCann: Reporting Going Cheap

THE GUARDIAN continues to beat the Star and Express with a big Madeleine McCann-shaped stick:

The price cut follows a string of high profile problems for Express Newspapers, owner of the Daily Star, which was forced last month to apologise and pay £375,000 in libel damages to the so-called ‘tapas seven’, the group Kate and Gerry McCann dined with on the night their daughter Madeleine disappeared, after the publisher ran a series of defamatory stories about the group.

Get that? The Star and Express are now cheaper because of the McCanns? Will the Sun and Mail be cheaper? What about subscriptions to Sky TV?

In March, Kate and Gerry McCann accepted £550,000 from Express Newspapers after the Daily and Sunday Express, the Daily Star and Daily Star Sunday ran numerous defamatory articles after their daughter Madeleine disappeared from the Praia da Luz resort in Portugal on May 3, 2007.

Cheap reporting all round, then…

Anorak

Posted: 6th, November 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann, Media | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0

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Fully Secured bank Funded Pigeon Says:
November 6th, 2008 at 11:14 am

frist?

Watcher Says:
November 6th, 2008 at 11:17 am

ninth.

chenier Says:
November 6th, 2008 at 11:18 am

Nice one, FSBFP!

A diversionary tactic on Viagra, and a swoop on the MM thread…

Fully Secured bank Funded Pigeon Says:
November 6th, 2008 at 11:23 am

Morning Chenier

I’m like shock n awe I am

Fully Secured bank Funded Pigeon Says:
November 6th, 2008 at 11:25 am

not to mention the quick ‘plant’ in the forums first…

brandon flours Says:
November 6th, 2008 at 11:44 am

Now Mrs Fenns statement is out can we discuss it ?

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M&A
Artemis
Is it ‘officially’ out, or is it just on the sky forums?

brandon flours Says:
November 6th, 2008 at 11:52 am

Well its on the 3As the team that has the DVD who have been busy translating.

All been okay so far.

Watcher Says:
November 6th, 2008 at 11:56 am

I posted it on here fully expecting it to be whooshed clunked, but it wasn’t. Then I posted two scenarios that could have happened re Madeleine’s disappearance bearing that in Mrs Fenn’s statement in mind, and that WAS whoosh clunked.

M and A

you posted a link for Sky on the other thread, and we are not responsible for links to other sites. However we are responsible for libellous scenarios /what ifs etc that are posted on here, and Artemis correctly removed it.
If you alone were liable we would happily leave it in situ , and for you to suffer the consequences of your actions. But you are not and we are.

Previous thread.

Fully Secured bank Funded Pigeon Says:
November 6th, 2008 at 11:59 am

you know why it whoosh clunked tho so why the sad face?

Watcher Says:
November 6th, 2008 at 12:07 pm

Did you read it?

Fully Secured bank Funded Pigeon Says:
November 6th, 2008 at 12:11 pm

yes I read it and you even said that you didn’t expect it to last long so you even know why yourself!

Watcher Says:
November 6th, 2008 at 12:54 pm

Well not really I don’t. Plenty of people on here give their opinions. Plenty of people here have nicknamed the McCanns - McScammers etc. Plenty of people on here have made no secret of the fact that think the McCanns are guilty, plenty of people on here make it clear that they think the McCanns are innocent.

I just put two virtually opposing scenarios which MIGHT have happened (and I said MIGHT). I consider this case like an interesting jigsaw puzzle. It’s getting all the pieces to make sense that’s interesting to me.

So no I don’t get it, and I don’t get it because it’s not consistent and it’s not logical.
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M&A
Artemis
As I keep pointing out, we are not the thought police. You seem determined to ignore the law of this country, which does not require its citizens to think appropriate thoughts. It requires us to comply with the laws of libel or suffer the consequences; libel Judges are not stupid.
And you still have not provided any examples of statements made by other posters which you claim to be libellous.
You sound like a five year old claiming that everyone else does it…

Watcher Says:
November 6th, 2008 at 12:55 pm

And next time I look at that post I will have one of Artemis’s pearls of wisdom attached to it.

brandon flours Says:
November 6th, 2008 at 12:57 pm

Watcher

I get confused all the time. Its not just you

Fully Secured bank Funded Pigeon Says:
November 6th, 2008 at 1:00 pm

It’s all in the wording watcher.

brandon flours Says:
November 6th, 2008 at 1:05 pm

some “wordings” in the “reading” of the beholder though

Fully Secured bank Funded Pigeon Says:
November 6th, 2008 at 1:08 pm

better safe than sorry though!

brandon flours Says:
November 6th, 2008 at 2:11 pm

Indian summer

looks like the truth is trickling out

Indiansummer Says:
November 6th, 2008 at 2:47 pm

Brandon Flours
Yes
I ‘m sure there is one or to native french speaker out there, who want’s to help and translate this one….

brandon flours Says:
November 6th, 2008 at 2:53 pm

The babelfish translation was clearer

doris Says:
November 6th, 2008 at 3:19 pm

it is perfectly clear what mrs fenn said in her statement , that the children were alone and one was crying the night before Madeleines disappearance and that mccann went out again .

edited jj (too much supposition)

doris Says:
November 6th, 2008 at 3:24 pm

serial neglectors

doris Says:
November 6th, 2008 at 3:25 pm

or should that be serious neglectors ? both fit

doris Says:
November 6th, 2008 at 3:26 pm

if the cap fits wear it ! must get one made up and send it pronto