Madeleine Coverage

Parents fault she is missing.

I'm not denying it isn't partly their fault. But their child is missing - of course they feel guilty about leaving them alone. That still doesn't mean a "rock" should be thrown at her head. She does care for her.

Who's told you that then?

We don't know, we're being fed by the media... which right now is in overload mode.

And biased... as per bloody usual.

If it isnt the sodding environment its something else with the BBC these days.

Just be grateful most of you don't pick up Central News East.

Ever since the Madeleine story broke, the first five minutes of every CNE have been taken up by the (non-) developments of the story. The only respite was yesterday, with the Derby County promotion celebrations, but Madeleine came second to that (shock horror).

Today's intro took the biscuit: "The McCanns have met the Pope today... to further publicise the appeal". Insert your own joke here

Even BBC EMT have now started to move on from Madeleine, but CNE's pathological coverage is starting to have a drip-drip effect now, especially the instance on getting comments from the residents of Rothley on every minutiae of the saga.

I was just thinking the same!

i agree with others - something doesn't add up - i've never seen either of them shed a tear, the father looks like a miserable robotic kind of character - on the mobile vid someone in the party even said to him 'cheer up gerry you're going on holiday'. The mother and the silly ribbon in her hair and constantly clutching maddie's 'cuddle cat' makes me uneasy - did she take that to the tapas bar - i think not!!

The Dad did it!

Thanks for that insinuation. Shall we share some Maddie jokes as well? It's probably a step up from that drivel. Regardless of guilt or lack of it, it's not nice to speculate in those terms.

Note the Corrie guys at least at the soap awards have the yellow ribbons...


Now, imagine if she'd been found dead between the recording and the broadcast - would they have been forced to pull it?



Talking of which, considering now the main focus seems to be keeping this in the news at whatever cost (though the papers are more than happy to drop it for Big Brother), axing the storyline in Corrie now seems to be working against them.

Indeed. Comments about the individuals in this story are of course going to be brought up and questioned in a thread like this but let's lose the unsubstantiated rumours and cheap gags and get back to why this thread was created in the first place.

The Evening News tonight had some brief clips from a few stations around the world including NBC, Italian, French and Portuguese news programmes.

Thanks, Asa

Wild speculations, cheap gags and other things makes a much more interesting thread than just discussing how it's been covered which seems to be going well as a closely tied parallel. Anyway, if you can't laugh at it, what can you do? Helps cut through the enforced simpering ****.

Here's one for you, what if this child is merely in hiding and some people are merely looking to extend their jollies? Doesn't beat Nick's idea of bitesize kiddie chunks floating in the U-bend but it's a good 'un.

While this story has been covered by the media here in Ireland there has been no "jumping on the band-wagon" like the UK Media.
RTE has taken a broader view with this story;-

"Europe's other missing children
While Madeleine's parents got an audience with the Pope, hundreds of children throughout Europe have been missing for years. Click here for more details"

The link is to: http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0530/missing.html