Madeleine McCann: No Change, A Tourist Site And Entertainment
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
THE GUARDIAN: “Last night’s TV: Madeleine, One Year On: Campaign for Change”
It’s difficult to keep the visuals stimulating, too. We saw the McCanns at home in Leicestershire; Kate and Jerry talking on the sofa. But you can’t have two hours of sofa, so we joined them in a lot of taxis - in Portugal, London, Washington. And there were plenty of lingering tree shots - leafless, winter trees (this is a sad story, after all). And a flying heron … eh, what’s that about? Maybe the heron is an aguido, too. Does Sir Trevor know?
DAILY MAIL: “Madeleine holiday apartment becomes ’sick tourist attraction’ one year on from her disappearance”
Coachloads of journalists arrive every day. It’s sick.
DAILY MIRROR: “Tourists posing for pictures at McCann tragedy spots”
Pensioner Pamela Fenn, who lives above the McCanns’ holiday apartment, said: “It’s sick.
“They stand outside and then have photographs taken with their children.”
A source close to the McCanns said yesterday: “It’s disgraceful.”
It’s not as if the disappearance of a missing child is entertaining.
The floodlights at Premiership club Everton will be switched on this Saturday to mark the anniversary in a campaign called Light The Way Home.
LIVERPOOL ECHO: “Madeleine McCann: Family prepare for first anniversary of her disappearance”
People around the world are being urged to light a candle, shine a torch or turn on a porch lamp on Saturday night as a gesture of support for Madeleine’s family and friends.
A lighter held in the air?
Robert Murat, the third arguido in the case, is intending to maintain a low profile and will probably stay away from Praia da Luz on Saturday.
He said: “The anniversary is for a little girl who went missing - Madeleine.
“The anniversary is not about us, the McCanns, the PJ (Portuguese detectives) or anything else but a little girl going missing.”
THE TIMES: “Madeleine, One Year On: Campaign for Change; Escape from Alcatraz: The True Story”
Stefanie Marsh: Why must television do compassion? Why, when faced with a captive audience, a prime-time slot and a story that could, if they’d let it, tell itself, must television turn to mush and mutate into a series of treacly Hallmark bereavement cards?…
At one point Gerry McCann admits that his “wife is carrying on in a quasi-real existence”. What she is really doing is falling apart, but too much gloop from the director turned the McCanns’ terrible situation into a guilt trip that made me want to watch The Apprentice instead.
THE INDEPENDENT: “Last Night’s TV: Madeleine, One Year On: Campaign for Change ITV1″
“You can’t always blame the parents,” says Thomas Stucliffe:
They still get a lot of letters, the McCanns, sorting them out into boxes marked “well-wishers”, “ideas”, “psychics” and “nutty”. Incredibly, they also need a box marked “nasty” for messages such as the one that Gerry read out at the beginning of the film. “How can you use money given by poor people in good faith to pay your mortgage on your mansion? You fucking thieving bastards. Your brat is dead because of your drunken arrogance. Shame on you. I curse you and your family to suffer forever. Cursed Christmas. If you had any shame, you would accept full responsibility for your daughter’s disappearance and give all the money back. You are scum.” This heart-warming expression of support had been written inside a Christmas card. The Daily Express, by contrast, chose to print its hate mail on its own front page, confident that there were enough readers out there who would prefer infanticide to unresolved mystery – or to no McCann story at all. And all the time, the McCanns themselves live a life horribly suspended between what might have been and what could happen next, between “if only” and “maybe”.
May 2nd, 2008 at 9:28 am
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whoops Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 9:35 pm
666-Well what were you suggesting we bet on and anorak be the stake-holder-I am very sorry if I have misinterpreted anything.
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You join the ranks of the few who make misleading, offensive remarks but, when confronted, retract and maintain that was not the intention.
May 2nd, 2008 at 2:24 am
so what’s this about then?! http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/05_01/tortureDM0105_800×599.jpg
Daily Mail at yer service, ma’am
May 2nd, 2008 at 12:59 am
CHENIER
Thank you
May 2nd, 2008 at 12:27 am
711 Jass
Missed the first word of my post, Jass?
Typical carelessness and inaccuracy of those who automatically convict the Mcs even before the police have charged them!
Good night.
May 2nd, 2008 at 12:25 am
It’s late, and I really must get some sleep.
Good night, all!
May 2nd, 2008 at 12:20 am
At last Maria acknowledges that the McCanns are up to no good and should be charged.
What took so long, Maria?
May 2nd, 2008 at 12:18 am
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Pilimary Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 11:57 pm
Well, lets see… At least, Im not going to go to my sleeping bag that much bored (I forgot to mention, before, my TV set. It is one of the 4 pieces of my furniture tonight, together with my laptop, a high lamp and the sleeping bag.
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Well, I hope that the floor isn’t too hard.
Years ago I would have suggested that you were camping out; nowadays that’s got a rather different meaning.
So I’ll just say goodnight, and hope you get one last good night’s sleep in your old home, prior to many good night’s sleep in your new home!
May 1st, 2008 at 11:57 pm
Uauuu!!!
My TV set was off. Then I switch it on , and… Surprise!!! The McCann documentary, plus a live debate, is starting in that very moment… antena 3 has bought the documentary and has invited some “experts” (the journalist of El Mundo who reproduced Amaral’s statements, among them)…
Well, lets see… At least, Im not going to go to my sleeping bag that much bored (I forgot to mention, before, my TV set. It is one of the 4 pieces of my furniture tonight, together with my laptop, a high lamp and the sleeping bag.
May 1st, 2008 at 11:48 pm
Continue your semantic argument as long as you like, but I’d wager also that chenier didn’t have to consult a dictionary to be sure of the meaning of disingenuous. If she used the word, she chose it and if she chose it, she knew what it meant. G’night.
May 1st, 2008 at 11:34 pm
706 Gloria Smudd
Exactly! Difficult therefore not to be deliberate.
“Deliberately disingenuous” is tautologous.
May 1st, 2008 at 11:22 pm
It means not open, not frank, crafty. Gold star to Ciara.
May 1st, 2008 at 11:18 pm
Go to new thread guys
May 1st, 2008 at 11:16 pm
Gloria Smudd
It means not straightforward, not sincere…calculating almost. False??
May 1st, 2008 at 11:12 pm
Come on then - what does disingenuous mean?
May 1st, 2008 at 11:07 pm
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If the Mcs are child-killers or disposed of their child’s body after an accident, set up a false abduction scenario, instigated a worldwide financial scam to obtain money fraudulently, not to mention seriously wasting police time……how on earth could the PJ “appear as a bunch of sordid revengers” by charging them.
IMO, it’s shocking to suggest the PJ will not charge them if there is evidence that that they did any or all of these things. I don’t believe it. And as for all those books, interviews etc…either people will know they are just money-making rubbish OR the police will look appallingly negligent or incompetent for not arresting and charging them and securing a conviction which would get them put away for a very long time.
May 1st, 2008 at 11:03 pm
From a hotel near Marble Arch, they gave countless media interviews to broadcasters and newspapers from all over the world to mark the anniversary of her disappearance, urging anyone who has spoken to the Portuguese police to contact them via a new hotline. In effect, with their May Day for Madeleine campaign, they were launching their own investigation.
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”This is a last chance to capture a lot of information which has gone into the investigation and we are not privy to,” Gerry McCann said. ”Clearly, we need to know that everything has been done. What we are asking people to do is, if you have given information to the police, Crimestoppers, the Portuguese police, we are asking you to give it to us as well.”
Looks like the new number is to help them find out what was said to the Police ?