Madeleine McCann: TV Survivors, Alan Carr And Karen Matthews Bingo
It is this compulsion to make sense of all the craziness that drives us to find patterns where there are none. So Matthews becomes not an unaccountable aberration, but a symbol of broken Britain; the hapless victim of generations of deprivation or the inevitable product of our dependency culture, depending on your political perspective.
Garavelli then lists a role of dishonour: Fred West, Myra Hindley and Peter Tobin. More Bingo.
To begin to understand public reaction to Shannon Matthews’ kidnapping, you have to view it through the prism of Madeleine McCann, whose abduction 10 months earlier is said to have inspired the whole sordid plan.
Discount Tobin, West and Hindley.
Because so many people already saw the McCann case as a signifier of class prejudice (Madeleine got more attention than other missing children because her parents were good-looking and well-off) they were geared up to view the Matthews family as the other half of the equation.
Two parts of an equatison for which the asnwer is..? Is…? Is nothing.
Madeleine McCann is missing. Still missing.
BBC: “Comedian Alan Carr has apologised for dedicating an award to Karen Matthews, who kidnapped her daughter Shannon.”
Government minister Shahid Malik, called him “sick and insensitive” after he made the remark to reporters at Saturday’s British Comedy Awards.
Carr said Matthews, who is from Mr Malik’s constituency, was “rough”, a gay icon and would be his dream guest.
The comedian later said: “I realise what I said was insensitive and I am very sorry for any offence caused.”
Now gimme a job on Radio 2…
Posted: 8th, December 2008 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Reviews Comments (98) | TrackBack | Permalink
