Madeleine McCann And Natasha Richardson For Sale
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann, starringNatasha Richardson..
Sunday People: “FLOWERS FOR KATE”
Brave Kate McCann faces new heartache this morning as she wakes up to her second Mother’s Day without daughter Madeleine.
Sad news. But why are we watching the parents when the child is missing? Is there pleasure in another’s pain?
Editors Weblog: “The Sun’s purchase of Google keywords ‘Natasha Richardson’: is this ethical?”
Effic..?
CounterValue reported that UK newspaper The Sun had purchased the keywords “Natasha Richardson” on Google meaning that anybody searching for name of the actress (whose recent tragic death has been widely reported) would see the link to the Sun’s story appear alongside their search results. A Google search carried out today, however, did not show any sponsored links, meaning that perhaps the Sun has thought the better of its arguably morally-questionable purchase. Or perhaps after the first day it was not financially viable to keep the promotion going.
Via Countervalue.
The Guardian came under considerable criticism last August when, apparently accidentally, it purchased the Google keywords “Madeleine McCann,” giving any searchers the link to its coverage of the child’s disappearance. The Guardian promptly relinquished the rights, and said it would review its list of keywords. Purchasing Google keywords in order to promote a product is common practice, but is it ethical for newspapers?
What difference to putting Natasha Richardson on a front page; of writing her name on the Evening Standard’s Read-all-about-it-boards; of advertising your news..?
Daily Mail: “As a report condemns government databases… Big Brother is wasting your billions”
While worried homeowners pored over Google’s new Street View map yesterday to see whether it contained intrusive images of their homes, a far more worrying story emerged about the burgeoning use of surveillance powers.
The Daily Mail is giving each reader a free pair of X-Ray specs?
A report by Ross Anderson, professor of security engineering at Cambridge University and one of the country’s foremost experts on the use of information technology, paints a picture of a Government obsessed with personal datacollection which is costing taxpayers billions, infringing our privacy and putting us all at risk of crime and identity theft.
No fewer than 11 of the databases developed by the Government, concludes Professor Anderson, are ‘almost certainly’ illegal.
Almost certainly, eh?
In future, it will take only an NHS worker to leave a laptop on a train and the medical history, including drug-use and sexual orientation, of millions of Britons will be available to everyone.
And now you’re scared, it’s time for Tabloid Bingo!, with your caller Ross Clark:
It won’t, of course. Victoria Climbie and Baby P died not through lack of a computer system but because doctors and social workers who came across them failed to spot obvious signs of harm.
And:
In practice, DNA collected from a crime scene is rarely perfect: remember how Madeleine McCann’s parents were arrested by Portuguese police and invited to confess to manslaughter after DNA samples taken from the boot of their hire car were ‘matched’ with Madeleine’s? It later became quite clear that it was a partial match of no significance whatsoever.
Bingo!
The Scottish edition of the Sunday Express has apologised for the “terrible offence” it caused by running a front page story alleging survivors of the Dunblane massacre had shamed the memory of dead friends by boasting about drunken nights out on social networking websites. Yesterday’s strongly-worded apology, headlined “Dunblane: We’re Sorry”, ran on page five of the Sunday Express’s Scottish edition, with the paper admitting its original story of a fortnight ago was “undeniably inappropriate”. The Express Newspapers’ title said it had also spoken to the families involved to apologise.
The Express:
This is the latest in several high-profile apologies by the paper’s publisher. Last year, Express Newspapers apologised and paid £550,000 in damages after the parents of the missing schoolgirl Madeleine McCann took legal action against its four national titles for a series of untrue stories published about them.
Anyone keeping score of how many time the Guardian has now mentioned the Express being fined over the McCann story? Is the Guardian gloating, or just ticking the key words…
Madeleine McCann is missing.
Posted: 24th, March 2009 | In: Media Comments (15) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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March 26th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
nobody knows, Iola, although everyone seems to have an opinion… however, from the parents point of view, Amaral was definitely anti and therefore it wasn’t surprising that they left Portugal asap IMO..
March 26th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
Cheryl, if he did leak information, was that information incorrect?
March 26th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
I can understand why they left when they did. It had become quite ugly and unprofessional with Amaral deliberately leaking information and some not true and turning the tide against them.
March 26th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
Follow the money. The remains found by the Gerry in shining Armour (the sardines were of no use)
More photo ops, state funeral, more funds, GB relieved
March 24th, 2009 at 8:23 pm
IMO, if they are innocent they had nothing to fear. It’s not like PJ were going to stitch them up or anything - there were far too many important people watching events.
Anyway, I would have stayed and searched in the first place and not scarpered back to the UK even if I was made an arguida.
March 24th, 2009 at 8:16 pm
That has always been one of the $64,000 questions - why they refused.
My thoughts were they didn’t go because of the fear they would be retained and not permitted to return to the UK until the investigation cleared them - and at that time it was unknown if they would be cleared from suspicion.
March 24th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
They should have searched and questioned the locals properly in the first place and I’m surprised they didn’t. They also should have all taken part in the reconstruction they were invited to.
I’m sure some of the locals would have helped out and it could have jogged someone’s memory.
I wonder why they refused.
March 24th, 2009 at 6:59 pm
I only saw local Brits being blamed, but no-one went to the locals..
Several local boys who worked in bars with me in ‘81, were very different people when I met them again in the late ’90’s.. But I don’t think I know anything that would help, wish I did….
March 24th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
I used to live in Praia da Luz in the early ’80s. Years before she disappeared but I also think foreign police, not Portuguese should have checked the locals much further. Must admit have mad dreams about her !
March 24th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
I think they have resigned themselves that remains may be found, but there was the 3 to 4 months after she went missing that people did search, but I never did understand the foreign searches (other than Portugal).
But most children are found in rough land, usually by dogwalkers, hikers and farmers.
It was such a small entry in the BBC website too.
March 24th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
Thanks for that link! I’m sitting here dumb founded reading that NOW all most two years later they realize that the local people have not been properly asked if they know or heard anything! What do they expect to find out or have happen NOW two years later: they focus back on Portugal, where the focus should have been two years ago, and miraculously someone says ‘oh by the way here is that little blond child I found 2 years ago but no one asked me if I had her’ or are they prepared for that maybe her remains will be found?
With all the advice they took from Day 1 on how to look for their child, and much of that advice they took came back to bite them in the arse, all of a sudden it is realized that somehow focusing an all out search for her in Portugal was overlooked? Leaves me puzzled and an uneasy feeling.
March 24th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7961734.stm
March 24th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
There should be the march which shall drag attention back, as arranged by he whom C&C and Totje call the Chesty one.
But there’s a bit of a brouhaha over a song for Baby P (its in Anorak today) and funds raised go to the NSPCC
BUT on the Jade side, her local priest seems to be setting up a shrine for her, to her? and there’s one week and 4 days to go to the funeral, and as far as I know , no burial plot yet.
I have arranged to go to a dogshow that day.
March 24th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
Good afternoon, June, looks as if it is ‘just us.’ JG has certainly stolen the top spot from the McCanns the past several weeks. However, have no fear once JG is buried and no fun kicking her around anymore, the posters will refocus on the McCanns.
March 24th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
earlyish bird again?