Posts Tagged ‘Madeleine McCann’
Madeleine McCann: Shannon Matthews And Amber Alerts
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
THE GUARDIAN: “Shannon Matthews drugged and tied up in mother’s fake kidnap plot, court told”
She was another Our Maddie, albeit from a lower social caste…
At a time when the disappearance of three-year-old Madeleine McCann was still making headlines, West Yorkshire police mobilised 200 officers, searched 1,800 properties, checked every park in Dewsbury, stopped up to 1,760 cars and passers-by a night, and drafted in three quarters of all the country’s police dogs.
So had Madeleine McCann not been missing, British police would not have reacted with such a show of force..?
RADIO NETHERLANDS: “Dutch introduce nationwide missing child alert”
Had an Amber Alert system been up and running in the whole of Europe, the disappearance of British three-year old Madeleine McCann in Portugal in May 2007 might have been avoided.
Yeah, might. Such are the facts…
Posted: 13th, November 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (121)
Madeleine McCann: Adopted by Angelina Jolie, And The Changeling
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
DAILY MAIL: “A mother leaves her child while she goes out – and returns to an empty house. No, not the McCann case but the true story behind a gripping new film”
Fact. Fiction. Can you spot the difference?
She was a devoted mother, hard-working, determined and tough. Then, one spring morning, Christine Collins kissed her little child goodbye (leaving him under the eye of neighbours), before returning in the evening to an empty house. Her beloved son had vanished without a trace.
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Posted: 8th, November 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (853)
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?
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Posted: 6th, November 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (175)
Madeleine McCann: Closing The Hunt
MADELEINE McCann is missing. She is the Sun’s Our Maddie. Or she was.
From the Sun:
Dear Posters,
Please be aware that users will no longer be able to post to the ‘Missing Madeleine’ discussion thread after 3pm on Friday, 7th November 2008. At this time, the thread will be changed to ‘read only’ and removed on Friday, 14th November 2008.
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Posted: 5th, November 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (200)
Madeleine McCann: Frankie Boyle’s Comedy Bingo
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
THE PRESS (York): “Review: Frankie Boyle, Grand Opera House, York”
Gavin Aitchison scores a ticket to see watered down Gerry Sadowitz impersonator Frankie Boyle on stage
After a week in which he was condemned for a joke he made two years ago about the Queen, Boyle marched on to the stage and let rip at anything and everything that moved.
And something that didn’t…
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Posted: 4th, November 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (81)
Madeleine McCann: Without A Trace Newspapers Fight For Maddie
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FIREFOX NEWS: “Review — Without a Trace : Rise And Fall”
But no sooner have the team started looking for her than a little girl disappears from a shopping mall in New York. Her name is Maddie and right away, I thought “they’re not comparing this to the Madeline McCann kidnapping case in Portugal are they?”
Maybe. Or maybe it’s really her?
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Posted: 3rd, November 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (55)
Madeleine McCann Seen With Nelson Mandela, Margaret Thatcher, Simon Cowell, Princess Diana, Winston Churchill And Gordon Brown
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THIS IS TAMWORTH: “Chase artist’s postage stamp portraits in museum display”
AN EXHIBITION of postage stamp portraits, created by renowned Hednesford artist Pete Mason, is on display at the Museum of Cannock Chase.
A wrote a letter to the papers, they printed it on Anorak…
The painter and illustrator is displaying his works, including pictures containing 2500 stamps up to 20,000 stamps, until November 14.
At 32p a stamp, it’s an expensive hobby…
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Posted: 1st, November 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (354)
The Madeleine McCann Location Device And Finding Brand And Ross
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HALIFAX EVENING COURIER: “Child-tracking device gives parents holiday peace of mind”
(Image: Beau Bo D’Or Website)
AN enterprising duo are to rent out child tracking devices and satellite navigation systems to holidaymakers at an airport. Friends David Molloy and Tony Waite, both born and raised in Halifax, have set up Stressless Journeys Ltd.
Stress free… Where do we sign for our bottle of Calpol/gin/valium?
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Posted: 31st, October 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (81)
Madeleine McCann, Peter Mandelson And Russell Brand
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DAILY TELEGRAPH: “The public is sick of this heartless comedy”
Dominic Cavendish wonders how he can tie in Russell Brand, and Jonathan Ross with Our Maddie.
Our Maddie appears in most stories, having been linked to films, books, TV, murdered holidaymakers, Shameless families and games…
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Posted: 30th, October 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (112)
Madeleine McCann: Here’s A Question For You
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SUNDAY HERALD: “KATE AND GERRY McCANN, BY IAN BELL”
OF ALL the questions asked of Kate and Gerry McCann, official and unofficial, wise or wantonly cruel, since the disappearance of their four-year-old daughter, one is never likely to be answered.
Is it, what happened to Madeleine McCann?
It is not one of the obvious questions.
So not one of the 100 Questions… Is it, what didn’t happen to Madeleine McCann?
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Posted: 29th, October 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (79)
Madeleine McCann: Not Missing From Any Story
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
IRISH TIMES: “Spanish courts paralysed by industrial action.”
Today’s challenge: Can Madeleine McCann appear in a story on a story about how “legal secretaries and other members of the profession switched off their computers and laid down their pens in protest at their working conditions”.
That was Tuesday, and the Irish Times’s Jane Walker has been toiling to locate Our Maddy in the story. She tells of delays and lost files. And then she calls exhibit C…
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Posted: 27th, October 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (122)
Madeleine McCann: Noticing Tony Bennett, Madeleine’s Law And What Crime
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
SUNDAY PEOPLE: “McCanns fury over ‘neglect’”
Missing Maddie McCann’s furious parents have vowed to sue a lawyer who suggests they are guilty of child neglect. Anthony Bennett, 61, is urging the Government to bring in a “Madeleine’s Law” making it a criminal offence to leave children under 12 on their own.
Anthony Bennett has written to Anorak numerous times. Surely, if the McCanns sue him, they will give him the day in court he craves?
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Posted: 26th, October 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (183)
Madeleine McCann: WMDs, Princess Diana, Credit Crunch, England And Bingo
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
NEW STATESMAN: “The Real McCann Scandal”
What scandal? A child went missing. She is still missing. And that’s it. Although after a year and a half of breathless reporting not all newspapers can agree on where she went missing from.
Brian Catchcart details how the British press set out to systematically destroy the parents of Madeleine McCann.
All the press? Surely not…
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Posted: 24th, October 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (161)
Madeleine McCann: Goncalo Amaral’s Film, Selling Maddie And In Uganda
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
THE SUN: “Maddie’s leech cop”
It’s Goncalo Amaral. There’s a picture of the copper and the caption: “Coining it … disgraced ex-police chief Goncalo Amaral on location.”
No, Amaral is not now working as a private detective, nor is he running a team of private detectives.
The shamed cop who led the Madeleine McCann probe is cashing in AGAIN — with a TV film.
A film about Our Maddie. Tsk! What low life would consider such a thing, let alone actually make it? Better to keep it to a TV special.
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Posted: 23rd, October 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (102)
Madeleine McCann: Family Danger, Caylee Anthony And A Challenge To Libel
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THE SUN: “Maddie: Hol chat on risk of kidnap”
James Clench continues his investigation of the McCann’s holiday, and he’s brought Lucy Hagan along for back up…
Perhaps James can be Gerry McCann and Lucy can be Kate, and they can turn their story into a multi-media play for today? Now read on…
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Posted: 21st, October 2008 | In: Back pages | Comments (90)
Madeleine McCann: And Egyptian Suspect Called Steve, FBI Psychics And Payne
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THE SUN: “Kate’s Maddie holiday premonition”
Psychics! James Clench delves into the McCann mind. Back…. Back… Baaaaack….
Kate McCann had a haunting premonition about the holiday on which daughter Madeleine went missing. She told a close pal before the trip had been booked: “I don’t know why, I’ve just got an uneasy feeling about it.”
Maybe it was the plane?
Sangria Seven member Fiona Payne takes up the story in the company of the Portuguese police…
“This always haunts me. Kate … what she said … she was unsure. Gerry was quite keen but Kate said, ‘I don’t know why, I’ve just got an uneasy feeling about it.’ And I don’t know why she said that. I don’t think even she knows.”
Unsure if she knows what he might not know to be unsure about. Now we’re getting somewhere. Go on…
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Posted: 20th, October 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (178)
Madeleine McCann: FBI, Psychics And The Daily Express Reports
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SUNDAY EXPRESS (front page): “FBI psychics turn up new Maddie suspect”
The Express is censured, twice. And thus it become the official Our Maddie paper… Is this front page part of the libel settlement? Is the Express now in the McCann camp? It;s tried beating them, so why not join them?
Before the sensation, the apology for the sensation…
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Posted: 19th, October 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (252)
Madeleine McCann: Brian Kennedy Is Talking Balls With Mark Souster
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THE TIMES: “Brian Kennedy’s quest to find Madeleine”
Madeleine has turned up in the rugby pages. Mark Souster investigates…
There is no doubt that Brian Kennedy is a driven man. He has built a business empire with a turnover of more than £400million, as owner he has transformed Sale Sharks into one of the leading rugby clubs in Britain, who face Munster tomorrow in the second round of the Heineken Cup, and fathered five children.
But what’s he really famous for?
He is ultra-competitive. Only last weekend he raced Kingsley Jones, the club’s coach and former Wales captain, uphill and beat him even though there is more than ten years between them.
Eat yer heart out, Sisyphus. But what is Brian Kennedy all about..?
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Posted: 18th, October 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (110)
Madeleine McCann: Tapas Tales In Praia da Rocha
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
A CHILD is missing, still missing. And through the mainstream media we have watched the expats, watched the parents, watched the Portuguese police and watched the celebs.
This week, we are watching the media. The Daily Express, Sunday Express and Daily Star have been brought to book for shoddy reporting, libelling the so-called Tapas 7.
GLASGOW DAILY RECORD: “£375k Win For Maddie Case Pals”
Kate and Gerry McCann’s holiday friends – known as the Tapas Seven – have accepted £375,000 libel damages from a newspaper group.
They were all known as the Tapas Nine, but then became the 7 when we began to gawp at the McCanns. But let’s stick to the facts:
The friends were having dinner in a tapas restaurant in Praia da Rocha in the Algarve with Madeleine’s parents on the night she went missing.
So not in Praia da Luz. Is this a scoop? Is this Mirror’s investigation making progress?
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Posted: 17th, October 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (505)
Madeleine McCann: An Apology For Journalism, Desmond’s Reputation And Greenslade Scores
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
DAILY STAR: “’THE TAPAS SEVEN‘” – AN APOLOGY
The Sangria Seven, surely. Or the Tapas 9 (what happened to them?). But what of this latest apology? Ahem..:
In articles published in September and November last year we suggested that the holiday companions of Kate and Gerry McCann might have covered up the true facts concerning Madeleine McCann’s disappearance and/or misled the authorities investigating her disappearance.
Yes…
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Posted: 16th, October 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Madeleine McCann, Reviews, Tabloids | Comments (359)
Madeleine McCann Opens For Australia
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THE AGE (Aus): “If the cap fits, journeyman Rogers will wear it”
An interview with cricketer Chris Rogers.
Away from cricket, Rogers likes sudoku, music, writing and reading. Currently, it is Vanished, exploring the Madeleine McCann case, which was topical in England when he was there mid-year.
More on how that affects his cricket next season…
Posted: 15th, October 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (157)
Christmas Day Lights: Climate Kops Wonder At Lights
IT’S just 71 days to go to Christmas and the tabloids finally have their first Christmas lights story.
Anorak’s man at the Mirror says:
“Things were getting proper dicey. We had an Our Maddie story on standby, a feature on what Our Diana would have done to help should she ever deign to emerge from her department in Harvey Nichols, and there was the story of how Our Gordon Brown is to duet with Howard on the Halifax ads, so we were covered for a few weeks.
“But still, squeaky bum time.”
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Posted: 15th, October 2008 | In: Reviews, Tabloids | Comment
Madeleine McCann Gives Lives Meaning And Worth
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
INTERNATIONAL HERLAD TRIUBIUNE (France): “Billionaire retailer Green shops for a bargain”
Mark Pootter says Philip Green is on the hunt for a knock-down-once-in-a-lifetime- I’m-cuttin’-me-own-throat-guv’nor-honest-to-goodness bargain.
And who is Philip Green? Why…:
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Posted: 13th, October 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (253)
Madeleine McCann: Investigators Wanted, Benchmarks Of Pain And McFly
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DAILY MAIL: “£50,000 monthly expenses bill for McCann’s private eyes”
A scoop. It’s months old. But it’s still a scoop, right? Metodo 3 are on the job…
The private investigators hired to find Madeleine McCann were embroiled in fresh controversy last night as it was revealed they claimed nearly £50,000 in expenses for one month’s work.
… expensive
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Posted: 12th, October 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews, Tabloids | Comments (92)
Madeleine McCann And The Dawn Of Creationism
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In the beginning was the word. And the word was “Maddie”…
THE INDEPENDENT: “Religion vs science: can the divide between God and rationality be reconciled?”
And on the eighth day the media was created and Our Maddie did come to the fore…
‘A clergyman in charge of education for the country’s leading scientific organisation – it’s a Monty Python sketch,” pronounced Britain’s top atheist, Richard Dawkins, recently. The problem was that Reiss, as well as being an evolutionary biologist and population geneticist, is a non-stipendiary priest in the Church of England.
Still dunno.
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Posted: 11th, October 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (55)
