Madeleine McCann: Tabloid Columnists On Harry Potter, Frtizl And Bile
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to the columnists’ views on Madeleine McCann and family:
JANE MOORE (Sun): “Silence is not an option for the McCanns”
“Just suppose little Madeleine is trapped in a cellar somewhere, hidden from view while her warped captor conducts a seemingly normal life upstairs.”
Like Elisabeth Frtizl? It’s Tabloid Bingo. Eye down…
LORRAINE KELLY (Sun): “They deserve sympathy, not condemnation”
Since my daughter Rosie was a baby, she has always come everywhere with us when we go on holiday, especially to child-friendly countries such as Portugal, Spain and Greece. We wouldn’t have dreamed about leaving her behind to go for a meal because we go away to spend as much time as possible together as a family.
JON GAUNT (Sun): “I have little support for them”
Do you remember when you put your first baby to bed with a listening monitor and sat downstairs watching the box almost with subtitles on so you could hear every heartbeat?
If you heard an unexpected cough or belch you would sprint up the stairs faster than druggy Dwain Chambers on steroids to check on your little angel. That’s called parenting, isn’t it?
I wonder if the McCanns were as casual with their passports and valuables when they went out at night because as far as I am concerned there is nothing more precious than your child and they appear to have had scant regard for their safety.
ALLISON PEARSON (Mail): “The McCann campaign must NOT go on for ever”
Since May 3 last year, how many parents have mentally run the “Maddie safety test|” before daring to turn away from their children even for a moment? That may be her lasting legacy and our greatest burden.
Still, my small boy is not satisfied. “Maddie” is the big story of his childhood, bigger even than Harry Potter and infinitely more disturbing.
Harry Potter is Madeleine McCann? It’s all just stories. Any others?
There is a fascination in a momentary mistake that can never be undone, no matter how much a mother persecutes herself. In Greek tragedy, Antigone, the daughter of King Oedipus, cannot rest until she has recovered the body of her brother after his death in battle and given it a proper burial. One suffering leads to another. And there is some of that obsession, and that remorselessness, in the case of the McCanns.
But:
Do the two doctors really deserve two whole hours of prime-time when so many other people’s kids are lost and thousands are dying in Zimbabwe? Even those, like me, who have never doubted Gerry and Kate’s innocence must feel a flinch of unease.
Madeleine McCann: A year of easy copy
April 30th, 2008 at 7:54 am
First ?
April 30th, 2008 at 7:57 am
Second
April 30th, 2008 at 8:04 am
“And there is some of that obsession, and that remorselessness, in the case of the McCanns”.
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Do I read well? Is it a Freudian slip? Do they “persecute themselves” or are they remorseless?
Questions again. Questions never stop arising about the parents and about the child’s fate.
April 30th, 2008 at 8:11 am
oh bloody hell !!!!!!!!!!
wasted the last hour posting on the other one
April 30th, 2008 at 8:12 am
GMTV NOW
April 30th, 2008 at 8:13 am
I am sure that twats Garf!
April 30th, 2008 at 8:14 am
Morning all.
Please, please, please arrest them and let them tell their stories to a judge! And dont use the Austrian case as another diversion!
April 30th, 2008 at 8:15 am
Brandon,
I cant watch them on the television anymore!
April 30th, 2008 at 8:16 am
3 Marie Nicholas Says:
” Do I read well? Is it a Freudian slip? Do they “persecute themselves” or are they remorseless? ”
I think the reference to Antigone indicates that the public campaign is meant, but it becomes clearer when you read the whole article.
April 30th, 2008 at 8:20 am
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SteveT Says:
April 30th, 2008 at 8:15 am
Brandon,
I cant watch them on the television anymore!
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Does it make your breakfast highly indigestible?
April 30th, 2008 at 8:20 am
Hi Stevet
Have to go now! My blood is well and truly boiled
GMTV is amking me so crazy with their biased reporting this morning
April 30th, 2008 at 8:21 am
Ferdinand
I still don’t understand the remorselessness well. Who is remorseless?
April 30th, 2008 at 8:21 am
Please go to portugal and take a part on the reconstruktion, please answer the open question to bring light in the darkness of the case. They need not ten or more lawyers for their innocense…
April 30th, 2008 at 8:22 am
Do the two doctors really deserve two whole hours of prime-time when so many other people’s kids are lost and thousands are dying in Zimbabwe? Even those, like me, who have never doubted Gerry and Kate’s innocence must feel a flinch of unease.
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Anorak,PLEASE,dont make me mad,its only 9h spanish time
April 30th, 2008 at 8:22 am
10 jo
Cant even ear breakfast!
April 30th, 2008 at 8:22 am
ear = eat
April 30th, 2008 at 8:24 am
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Indiansummer
And please, tell all your stories to the PJ and not the media!
April 30th, 2008 at 8:25 am
The brakes of my car are not working well. My husband mumbled something yesterday about my car. Maybe it is related to the bad brakes, but I am not sure, he didn’t sound worried. If I kill a pedestrian this morning, all my life, I will regret that I didn’t have another car, and that I didn’t ask my husband what he meant.
April 30th, 2008 at 8:25 am
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Marie Nicholas Says:
April 30th, 2008 at 8:21 am
Ferdinand
I still don’t understand the remorselessness well. Who is remorseless?
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“THEY”
The Righteous Remorseless Ones
April 30th, 2008 at 8:26 am
And a few open words to the British press
It is one year to late, to show this mother as a grieving mother . She is terrible suffering? We have seen them suffer all!
- while jogging
walk-in
- in interviews
– At various events
- final in Brussels
it is to late-that is no longer credible. Sorry
She is suffering only if the public pressure becomes to great, or the Pj have something in the hand, maybe.
There are no responsible parents who leaving their children alone, refuse to go to portugal to take a part in the reconstruction, They refused the questions that would bring the light into the case. They are paing many lawyers.They are paying for their innocence?
A child is missing-still missing. One child is probably dead .One child without a grave. Oh, yeah, she is still out there. Of course.
Good journalism is telling the truth. And a good journalism asks the right questions in a right moment.
April 30th, 2008 at 8:26 am
ooh i love your earings mummy !! shes like a buddy to me !
April 30th, 2008 at 8:27 am
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Indiansummer
….and ,please,regain some dignity for Madeleine”s memory
April 30th, 2008 at 8:27 am
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SteveT Says:
Yep
April 30th, 2008 at 8:28 am
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Marie Nicholas
Be careful!
April 30th, 2008 at 8:29 am
Just woken to this…..
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1314472,00.html
Shall I watch tonight….I want to boycott itm but I can’t resist!
April 30th, 2008 at 8:29 am
A moral responsibility
April 30th, 2008 at 8:30 am
They are very private people
They are dignified people
only 1 % are negative HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH
April 30th, 2008 at 8:31 am
http://bp2.blogger.com/_CRpxxLjKdvM/SBcdt2cezcI/AAAAAAAABiM/xCKvWV_UE9I/s1600-h/images.jpg
Translation: Lies that kill
April 30th, 2008 at 8:32 am
Killers that lie?
April 30th, 2008 at 8:33 am
Steve T
I’ll be careful not to drink what I call too much before I drive. and I’ll wear my safety belt.