I wonder how many other children have been abducted in the past fortnight. Will any of them ever receive the same level of media frenzy?
Anyone ever care about the mass child abductions which take place regularly in parts of Africa.
What if Madeleine had been the daughter of a "working class" single parent, rather than a well-off "middle class" couple of Doctors.
It's an awful crime, & I feel for Madeleine & her family, but the British media's OTT response to this has been ridiculous. And it isn't just the tabloids.
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Not sure if it's been mentioned already -
I've just read this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6668479.stm
A Madeleine film to be shown at the FA Cup Final.
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Very very good article here, IMO, at the MSNUK News Team's blog:
http://msnukhomepage.spaces.live.com/
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Originally Posted by MSNUK News Blog
17 May
The media and Madeleine: a national disgrace
Posted by Ian
You have to wonder how much longer this can go on. Not the search for the missing toddler Madeleine McCann; rather the media's hysterical coverage of the case, the like of which has plumbed new depths in the name of scurrilous rumour-mongering, gratuitous prejudice and sensationalist overkill.
What I've seen and read these past two weeks has profoundly shaken my faith in the standards of British journalism. Hearsay reported as news, gossip reported as news, nothing reported as news...anything, in fact, except facts and substance.
The McCann family has spoken repeatedly of wanting to keep their story "at the top of the news agenda" (and that's a phrase you wouldn't have found ordinary members of the public freely using even five years ago). But this bedlam of bombast and witch-hunting is having little or no positive effect whatsoever. Sure, it makes sense to keep the case in the public eye, but on whose terms - your own, or the media's? Because so far it's clearly been the latter.
The identification of a "suspect" earlier this week - a word that has completely different connotations in Portuguese law compared to here - was the moment that tipped things over the edge.
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