Madeleine McCann Category
News digests and reviews of the missing child in the news. Madeleine McCann vanished on Thursday, 3 May 2007 from a rented holiday flat in Praia da Luz, Portugal. Madeleine, on holiday with her twin siblings and parents Kate and Gerry McCann,became the biggest news story of the past decade. We’ve followed it closely ever since the story broke.
Madeleine McCann: ‘Happy And Relaxed’ Kate McCann
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann…
Daily Express: “THE parents of Madeleine McCann are planning to give a rare television interview to make a fresh appeal for information which they hope could lead to her being found.”
Planning? Who’s interviewing them?
Kate and Gerry McCann are also considering flying out to Portugal in the coming weeks to boost their renewed efforts there for a breakthrough in the run-up to the second anniversary of Madeleine’s disappearance on May 3.
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Posted: 29th, March 2009 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (30)
Madeleine McCann Spotted In Portugal
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann…
Meanwhile, back in Portugal…
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Posted: 28th, March 2009 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (4)
Madeleine McCann, Russell Brand And Decapitated Cyclists
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann, starring Matthew Parris, headless cyclists and Russell Brand.
The Guardian tells us:
A Times article about decapitating cyclists was the most complained about last year to industry watchdog, the Press Complaints Commission, receiving a record number of complaints about British newspapers and magazines.
Hats off to that story, and take care to untie the chinstrap first, readers.
The PCC, publishing its annual report today, said it received 4,698 complaints overall last year, a rise of 8% on 2007.
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Posted: 19th, March 2009 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (12)
Missing Madeleine McCann On BBC Daytime TV Show
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
Daily Record: “Quirke Start To A Mid-Life Crisis”
THE BBC’s new entertainment show Missing is on daytime telly. Quirk plays “DS Mary Jane Croft, a charismatic detective who runs an under-resourced department. The drama, set in a busy Missing Persons Unit, sees staff race against time to save people who are at risk.”
“But I’m pleased I’ve filmed the series. It’s entertainment – I wouldn’t claim it to be anything else – but you never know, do you? Somebody who has had a fall-out with their family and has gone missing may see the show, feel a pang of conscience and get in touch with relatives who are worried sick about what has happened to them.”
Pauline is relieved to report nobody has ever gone missing from her own family – husband Steve Sheen and children Emily, 24, and Charlie, 14.
Phew!
She says: “I can, truly, think of nothing worse than missing a child and for that uncertainty to continue – as it has for the parents of Madeleine McCann – must be unbearable.
Fact and fiction – can you spot the difference?
The Herald: “Body discovered in loch believed to be missing Uist cadet”
The mysterious disappearance had haunted the island community since Christmas, but it now looks as if the long search for a 21-year-old merchant navy cadet who went missing almost three months ago is at an end.
The people of South Uist have been looking for Simon MacMillan since he vanished in the early hours of Boxing Day in the township of Linique in the Iochdar area of the island…
A group of locals discovered a body at around 10.30am yesterday in Loch Bee, just south of the road between Linique and Mr MacMillan’s home in Ardmore.
And context?
Northern Constabulary brought in Mark Harrison, the national search adviser to the National Policing Improvement Agency, who was also involved in the search for Madeleine McCann.
Is Our Maddy on your CV?
However, after police drew a blank, an expert who had reviewed the hunt for Madeleine McCann was called in to help develop new leads.
Local police also recruited Mark Harrison, the national search adviser to the National Policing Improvement Agency, who had previously worked with West Midlands police following the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
The Guardian: “PCC targets Sunday Express over Dunblane allegations”
The Press Complaints Commission has launched an investigation after the Scottish edition of the Sunday Express ran a front page story alleging survivors of the Dunblane massacre “shamed” the memory of their dead friends by boasting about drunken nights out on social networking websites.
The article, titled “Anniversary shame of Dunblane: internet boasts of sex, drink and violence as youngsters hit 18” appeared on March 8. It claimed that a number of the those who witnessed the massacre first-hand had “posted shocking blogs and photographs of themselves on the internet, 13 years after being sheltered from public view in the aftermath of the atrocity”.
Sixteen children and their teacher were murdered when gunman Thomas Hamilton burst into the gym at Dunblane Primary School and opened fire on March 13 1996. Hamilton then turned the gun on himself.
Children of Dunblane Horror Grow Up Normally – read all about it!
And:
The editor of the Daily Express, Peter Hill, left the board of the PCC last year following front page and high court apologies from Express Newspapers titles the Daily Express, Daily Star, Sunday Express and Daily Star Sunday over a string of false stories about the disappearance of four-year-old Madeline McCann, which resulted in payments of £550,000 in damages to the McCann family.
Never let her lie…
Posted: 16th, March 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (27)
When Jade Goody Met Madeleine McCann
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
Daily Mail -Jan Moir: “Gerry’s complaints leave a bitter taste”
How strange it was to see pale, pugnacious Gerry McCann back in the news this week. It serves as a reminder that while the world has moved on for the rest of us, time stands still for him.
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Posted: 13th, March 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (14)
Madeleine McCann: Brand McCann, Selling The Commodity And The Media Feeding Frenzy
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
BBC: “Madeleine ‘treated as commodity’”
“COPS: MADDIE IS STILL ALIVE,” says the front page of the People. But they don’t know. Not for sure. To put this headline on the front page is bad reporting, offering false hope. It smacks of opportunism, using Madeleine to sell newspapers –Anorak, May 13, 2007
Madeleine McCann was treated as a “commodity” by the UK press, her father Gerry has told MPs.
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Posted: 10th, March 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (33)
Madeleine McCann: Murat, Opik, Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen And Jade Goody
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann, featuring special guest star Robert Murat, Lembit Opik, Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen, Jade Goody and a heated debate
AFTER a winter-long hibernation, Madeleine McCann returns to the newspapers and front-line debate.
The University of Cambridge’s organ tells its readers: “Robert Murat holds Cambridge Union spellbound in tabloids debate”
The debate, which brought together some famous names from the media, was notable for emotional highs and lows, as well as some colourful tabloid-style language and plenty of laughter.
Speaking for the motion were Michael White, Associate Editor of the Guardian, Robert Murat and his lawyer Louis Charalambous, and the Liberal Democrat MP Lembit Opik, whose personal life has regularly been splashed across the front pages of the tabloids.
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Posted: 10th, March 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (12)
Jade Goody’s Celebrity Cancer: Madeleine McCann, Shannon Matthews, The X Factor and Jesus
JADE Goody celebrity cancer: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Jade Goody’s celebrity cancer with Madeleine McCann, Shannon Matthews, The X Factor and Jesus.
Daily Mirror: “Christen Me Now Begs Jade”
Max Clifford added Jade’s sons were coping “very well”.
“They are aware their mum is very ill, but they are very young. Hopefully their lives will be as unaffected as possible, bearing in mind they are going to lose the centrepiece of their lives…
…me, Max Clifford?
…their mum.
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Posted: 7th, March 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (26)
Madeleine McCann: Robert Murat, MPs And Gerry McCann’s Heated Debate
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann, featuring special guest star Robert Murat
Madeleine McCann is missing, still missing. She is now missing from the papers. The story is not of a missing child. The story is of the media, how the single thread story became a maelstrom of speculation and clai, and now introspection.
Last night Robert Murat – a media victim – addressed an audience of students at Cambridge University’s Union Society in favour of a motion that “the tabloid press does more harm than good“.
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Posted: 6th, March 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (35)
Madeleine McCann: Robert Murat Cambridge University Debate And Maddy PR McGuinness Sues
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann, featuring special guest star Robert Murat and Justine McGuinness (in comments).
Remember Robert Murat who was called names and monstered by the tabloid press?
Posted: 5th, March 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (19)
Madeleine McCann: Clarence Mitchell For Hire, PR And Nuts For Kate McCann’s Swimsuit
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann, featuring Clarence Mitchell for hire
Clarence Mitchell, the McCanns’ PR , is talking with the Indepedent. Now the McCanns are free – no longer suspects in their daughter’s disappearance – why is Clarnce Mitchell needed?
The Independent: “Clarence Mitchell: ‘I am a decent human being. If I can help them, I will’ – The ex-BBC journalist built a career on professional detachment. Then, he went to work for the McCanns.”
“There is absolutely no evidence whatsoever, nothing, to suggest that Madeleine has been harmed, let alone killed,” insists Clarence Mitchell, the former television reporter who speaks for the family of the most famous missing girl in the world. Her face is instantly recognisable. There is no longer any need to use her surname, McCann. And yet, nearly two years since she vanished from the Algarve, there is still no trace.
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Posted: 1st, March 2009 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (62)
Madeleine McCann: Internet Danger, Teenage Girls And Stuart Lubbock
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann, featuring Stuart Lubbock and Internet teenage hell…
Yesterday the Mail manged to feature Madeleine McCann in its sotry on Stuart Lubbock, the man found dead at Michael Barrymore’s home. Readers were told:
Comparisons are now being made between Essex Police’s handling of the Lubbock case with the Portuguese police’s handling of the Madeleine McCann investigation.
Can the Mail now work Madeleine McCann into another seemingly unconnected story?
Daily Mail: “Pushed to the brink: How a family nearly lost their teenage daughter thanks to the dangerous power of the internet”
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Posted: 26th, February 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (11)
Madeleine McCann: The Stuart Lubbock, Michael Barrymore Connection
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann, and introducing Stuart Lubbock.
Stuart Lubbock died at TV entertainer Michael Barrymore’s house. He was found dead in a swimming pool. Drowned, apparently. An inquest featured the opinions of four pathologists that he was found with serious internal anal injuries.
Daily Mail: “Police apologise for flawed investigation into death at Michael Barrymore’s house”
Essex police apologised last night to the father of Stuart Lubbock who died at the home of entertainer Michael Barrymore in 2001 in mysterious circumstances.
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Posted: 25th, February 2009 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (10)
Madeleine McCann: Dial Ofcom 116 To Hear A Calming Voice
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
Which magazine: “European helpline numbers to be launched Easy child helpline and emotional support access”
Home phone and mobile phone regulator Ofcom has confirmed plans to introduce Europe-wide 116 emotional and child helpline phone numbers in the UK.
Caller: Hello, 116 116?
Yes. I’m here to help.
Caller: have you got the number for Jeremy Kyle?
At the moment, many telephone helpline and hotline phone numbers vary across different countries in Europe. This makes it difficult for visitors from other countries to find the right number when they need help or advice.
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Posted: 21st, February 2009 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (13)
Madeleine McCann: Killer Trees And The SAS
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
DAILY TELEGRAPH: “Swap the cotton wool for a mud pie”
It’s Harry de Quetteville.
No Qwat-ville…
Parents should stop being paranoid about their children’s safety and embrace risk
Asking:
Who would be a parent?
Alfie Patten (possibly) and Chantelle Steadman?
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Posted: 20th, February 2009 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (10)
Madeleine McCann: What We Paid The Police And Fraud
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
Can you put a price on a missing child? Yes.
LIVERPOOL ECHO: Police spent £500k on Madeleine McCann case
BRITISH police spent more than half a million pounds assisting the Portuguese investigation into Madeleine McCann’s disappearance. Leicestershire police’s part in the search for the missing little girl cost £548,477 in 2007-08, the force said.
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Posted: 14th, February 2009 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (76)
Madeleine McCann And The Threat To Newspapers
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
BBC: “Economy ‘threatens’ news accuracy”
The story is illustrated by a picture of Madeleine McCann. How so? Is hers the face of the economic downturn?
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Posted: 9th, February 2009 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (66)
Madeleine McCann: But Is It Porn?
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
TO Hackney, London, where our Maddy is appearing in a hall, on a wall.
It’s Maddy Porn. It’s mourn porn. Have look, if you dare…
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Posted: 7th, February 2009 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (12)
Madeliene McCann Favourite To Win All-Ireland Talent Show
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
WEXFORD PEOPLE: “On the trail of fame and fortune – DONNA MARIE SAYS C’MON WEXFORD!”
C’mooooonnnn!!!
DONNA MARIE Sludds has become an overnight pop sensation – a mere twelve years after she first stepped on stage with the family band. The livewire from Ballymurn has been chosen to compete in R.T.E.’s All-Ireland Talent show and is due on television next weekend.
The girl’s got talent, alright.
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Posted: 4th, February 2009 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (24)
Madeleine McCann Spotted In Center Parcs, Wiltshire
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
This is Wiltshire: “Center Parcs boosts security after Madeleine case”
Wiltshire? Whereabouts in Portugal is that, then?
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Posted: 3rd, February 2009 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (27)
Madeleine McCann: Watching Amelie and Sean
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
Scotland on Sunday: “McCanns celebrate twins’ birthday but Madeleine is ‘never far from their minds’”
The Scotland on Sunday can now read the minds of four-year-olds. Today is the fourth birthday do for Our Maddy’s siblings, Amelie and Sean. Scotland on Sunday is watching the kids.
Why? Are Sean and Amelie arguidos?! Who don’t think..? Perhaps the papers are on to something?
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Posted: 1st, February 2009 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (9)
Madeleine McCann: Facts, Mourn Porn And A Birthday Tea
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
Daily Mirror: “Haunted by Maddy’s disappearance, Kate McCann spends three hours a day trawling files”
She is consumed with the hunt for her daughter. every day she will spend 3 hours reading documents, looking for the vital clue which will answer the question that has tortured her and Gerry for 21 agonising months. Where is our missing Madeleine?
Our Maddy, surely?
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Posted: 31st, January 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (32)
Madeleine McCann: A Look At The Brand McCann Accounts
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
It’s time to look at those end-of-year Our Maddy Fund accounts and McCann Incorporated:
The Sun: “Maddie’s donors in £2m bid”
WELL-wishers donated almost £2million to the fund to find Madeleine McCann in the ten months after she vanished, it has emerged.
They gave almost £260-an-hour after Madeleine went missing aged three in Praia da Luz, Portugal, on May 3 2007, accounts lodged with Companies House show.
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Posted: 29th, January 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (72)
Your Invitation To The Madeleine McCann Look-alike Party
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
UK tabloid invites readers to Maddy look-alike do – details to follow…
THE PEOPLE: “MCCANN’S FACE ANOTHER FAMILY MILESTONE WITHOUT MADDY”
Tom Mctague is walking the Maddy Mile, putting in the hard yards. He has just passed another marker:
Kate and Gerry McCann will this week brave another family milestone without their beloved daughter Maddie – their twins’ fourth birthday.
How is that a milestone, then? Is reaching the grand old age of four now a milestone in this paedo, pervy age? If he turns up, call the cops.
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Posted: 26th, January 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (21)
Madeleine McCann: The Maddy Porn Mag On Display
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
But is it porn? Mourn Porn? Yesterday we had the “paedo!”. Now we have the “porn!” Two words can keep this story going, and they are not “Maddie found”.
HACKNEY GAZETTE: “MADDIE STUNT FURY”
A vile stunt in which a group of Hackney artists made pornographic artwork using images of Madeleine McCann has sparked outrage.
Vile. Outraged! Did you see it? Well, in case you didn’t go to a minor art exhibition in a easy-to-miss part of London and be outraged, know this:
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Posted: 22nd, January 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (53)
