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DAILY HERALD: “We can’t gloss over the brutal abuse of children”
Colette Douglas Home has been to the cinema to see Slumdog Millionaire with her daughter.
Her daughter turns to her:
“Weren’t you upset by the child abuse,” she asked. That’s when I remembered the child abuse; and that’s why I’m feeling uneasy about my initial reaction to the film as well as its Golden Globe success.
Where were social services when Jamal needed them? And there have been others - many of them:
When a child was tortured in A Cook, the Thief, His Wife and her Lover back in the 1990s, I had to leave the cinema…
It comes into Angelina Jolie’s film, Changeling - the dramatisation of a true story surrounding a missing child…
In The Kite Runner, one boy is raped and another is held captive as a sex slave. Gone Baby Gone centres around, yet doesn’t focus on, a neglected child…
Look at Dickens. He ripped back a veil to show the plight of children in Victorian England. But he made the children his heroes and heroines. We all went hungry with Oliver Twist and shared David Copperfield’s sense of abandonment as he waited for a thrashing from the sadistic Mr Murdoch.
Something must be done to stop the portrayal of child abuse as entertainment. How many more actors must suffer? Eyes down for Tabloid Bingo:
Small terrified faces peer from our newspapers on a daily basis. Madeleine McCann is still missing, Baby P is dead and on Sunday a newspaper carried case histories of dead babies…
And that was just in the TV listings section. What can be done?
Focusing in an empathetic way on the plight of victimised children has validity. But it is verging on immoral to incorporate their abuse into general entertainment as a run-of-the-mill sub-plot…
It should be the main plot of all films. Of course, for Colette, it already is.
ARABIA (Saudi Arabia): “Gaza drowning in its own blood”
Well, not it isn’t. But Linda Heard goes on:
REMEMBER the endless media coverage devoted to one abducted British toddler Madeleine McCann and the outpouring public sympathy in terms of hard cash?
Yes. See above.
Remember the deserved global horror when 186 schoolchildren were murdered by terrorists in the Russian town of Beslan?
Yes.
People everywhere generally experience deep emotion when the life of youngsters is cut short by crime or conflict because they only have to look at their own kids to relate to the tragedy.
So Our Maddy is dead?
THE TIMES: “Christianity: A History; The Real Sir Alan; Demons”
Andrew Billen is watching the telly.
I still quite like Demons…That ITV risked a tongue-in-cheek drama about a young girl’s disappearance must mean, however, that the national anxiety over Madeleine McCann is easing. I just can’t decide if that is a good or bad thing.
Can we vote?
0800 BYEMADDYBYE
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DAILY RECORD: “Letter: Your View - Sick Stunt”
TORY activist Matt Lewis has been rightly axed by the party over his grossly offensive “joke” of going to a fancy dress party dressed as Madeleine McCann…
Against this backdrop, the antics of Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross seem rather harmless in comparison.
Madeleine McCann – a child is missing…
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January 14th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
Where’s my bleedin post gone????
January 14th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
Blimey, GM taking all this time off when hospitals are bursting with virulent sickness! Must have been told to go or can’t he trust the lawyers to just get on with it?
January 14th, 2009 at 6:23 am
no pinky either
January 14th, 2009 at 6:08 am
sky news said five year old madeleine
January 14th, 2009 at 3:04 am
Saw Gerry on the T.V. Still an idiot, but a more humble, less gleeful, looking idiot. Hopefully they wont be appearing on ‘8 Out of 10 Cats : the MM Special’ any time soon.
January 14th, 2009 at 12:02 am
Nothing new I presume?
I just got back from a weeks skiing in Grindelwald. Grasping at straws for some Madeleine content, I didn’t see her, though that is none too surprising given that all small children wear helmets and most goggles as well. My own daughter adds a balaclava to that lot and looks like a little ski ninja. She took out a larger kid in a ski school with an expertly executed ninja collision. I would have painted a small stick figure on her helmet to mark the kill if it wasn’t rented.
January 14th, 2009 at 12:01 am
I’d call it wishfull thinking. What do you expect him to do? Buying a shovel and doing some digging again ?
January 13th, 2009 at 11:52 pm
Wonder what Coc has done with Eddie and Keela - come on Coco, unleash those hounds
January 13th, 2009 at 11:34 pm
Hi BF - you can bet anything the PJ will be dogging his every step, sniff sniff.
January 13th, 2009 at 11:13 pm
hi monty
Hopefully anorak will be busy tomorrow
I wonder if he returned to the scene, was he followed?
January 13th, 2009 at 11:06 pm
Evening all.
Is justice around the corner?
January 13th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
Meeting lawyers, meeting British officials, flying to Lisbon via Faro, what’s up doc? Up to no good probably
January 13th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
twins same age as madeline nearly
January 13th, 2009 at 8:56 pm
my flabb is gasted
January 13th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
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Gerry McCann made the journey to meet his Portuguese lawyers to discuss what more could done to help find his missing daughter, family spokesman Clarence Mitchell said.
It is understood that Mr McCann’s wife Kate did not travel with him, and that he will not see any Portuguese officials during his short trip.
Mr Mitchell said: “I can confirm that Gerry McCann returned to Portugal for a brief visit to meet his lawyers to see what more can be done to help find his daughter.”
Mr McCann, 40, from Rothley, Leicestershire, flew into Faro Airport in the Algarve and was met by British officials. He then travelled to Lisbon for talks with his legal team, led by Rogerio Alves.
Madeleine was nearly four when she went missing from her family’s holiday apartment in the Algarve village of Praia da Luz on May 3 2007 while her parents dined with friends nearby.
Despite a massive police operation and huge publicity worldwide, she has not been found. Four months after she disappeared, Portuguese police made both Mr and Mrs McCann “arguidos”, or formal suspects, in the case.
Two days later, on September 9 2007, they returned to Britain with their two other children, twins Sean and Amelie.
Last July the Portuguese attorney-general shelved the investigation and lifted the arguido status of Mr and Mrs McCann.
The couple insist they will continue to believe Madeleine is still alive until presented with firm evidence to the contrary, and have vowed to keep looking for her for as long as it tak
January 13th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
sorry… should have put the link in…. (hope its not spammed!)
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5juYjvQ_pC1Xm4HPtKzfgdknsfdyw
Murat… if it was libellous would it not have been witheld from the distributed DVDs? Just wondering…. can Murat sue the PJ for putting it into the public domain?
January 13th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
This was in the files released. The transcript is available…….. its all out there. Also Gerry mcCann is currently in Portugal to jump-start the search etc.
January 13th, 2009 at 7:21 pm
…… and I aint old
January 13th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
They just don’t like it up em……..
January 13th, 2009 at 7:15 pm
hi chenier glad you are back
January 13th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
evening
January 13th, 2009 at 7:13 pm
Ah yes, pop out to the library to obtain telephone number to get web access fixed and discover what appears to be a load of libellous bilge about Robert Murat from someone purporting to be Garth; same old, same old…
January 13th, 2009 at 7:08 pm
Garth… what could be more interesting than cats?
Oh okay then, maybe that…..
January 13th, 2009 at 6:34 pm
Sam
I have the reverse problem 3 dogs resident,one would allow cats, the others would be rather like ‘Lola NO CATS!’
Lola you are complaining we are talking of animals. BUT you are not offering a post that would distract us.
But we are NOT trading animals we are trying to find a home for them, which is a completely different matter
January 13th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
june, six cats and a dog don’t mix
my daughter wants one but i’m saying nono.
January 13th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
Now, after the cat trade, we are into dogs - this is unbelivable! Anorak, why do you allow these irrelevant posts, yet purge others?
January 13th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
and they are not being traded
January 13th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
What situation is that Lola? Not looking after helpless beings adequately?
January 13th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
Not to worry Sam, I actually asked because I knew C&C had been looking to add to her brood, and I also knew my email was having problems.
Ros, who has them at the moment will find someone - we usually get two or 3 people in the end .
The dogs that need homes are a different matter as usually unruly and indulged too much, and they are slower to go
January 13th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
Can you not trade your cats on some other website? Don’t you think this sort of exchange also makes a mockery of the situation?
January 13th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
june, hope you do find someone, i dont think one of my older cats would cope with the competition unfortunately.