Madeleine Coverage

I'm not sure if you're being serious, but that is one of th most dangerous things I've heard in a long time.

What if the kid you "snatch" is not the child in question? Would you like to be the parent who was the unfortunate victim of such vigilantism?

This is what I'm talking about -- rational people go insane when confronted by the nasty demon on the TV.

Uh...he's not dead.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/suffolk/6756953.stm

Unfortunately, another gentleman who was arrested in connection with this case was not so lucky, and committed suicide. I believe it has since been revealed that he would have been cleared.

In a sense, I agree with Jonathan. I feel much more for our colleagues who have sacrificed themselves for this country above a girl who has done nothing apart from go missing. To be fair she didn't have the chance to actually do anything constructive, so perhaps we should not hold this against her.

I do hope she is alive, but there are far worse things happening if she is not.

The worst thing possible is that we will never know, and this hysteria will drag on forever.

To the media - let it go, you are making me suicidal with all of this incessant coverage.

I agree.

I think some people have passed the line from humour to pure mean-spiritedness.

Anyone see the History Channel documentary this week on the Lindbergh baby kidnapping? The parallels are striking.

Surprised they didnt drop it out of 'respect'.

I'm surprised that we haven't had wall-to-wall coverage of the soldier that's missing in North Yorkshire, after being swept away by a swollen stream?

Any celebs wearing a yellow ribbon for him yet-- or a mock newspaper/poster circular email yet?

and another thing that's dropped off the radar...what happened to those 5 civilians who were kidnapped in iraq about a fortnight ago by blokes dressed up in stolen police uniforms. It was never confirmed their nationalities but it all went very quiet very quickly.

anyone know anything about it??

PS just looked at the maddie site and they now have bryan adams singing 'look into my eyes'.

Hmm... subliminal messaging now???

In that case, it probably turned out they're not British or American, so hence unimportant.

A number of reasons I suspect. For a start this kind of thing happens all the time in Iraq. Also their names were never given out, hence no human interest angle. The fact that their names were withheld shows its also politically sensitive so the authorities want to keep it quiet. Western journalists cannot safely leave the green zone to follow up stories, but most likely no one has a clue where they are so there is nothing to report.

The children at the school Madeleine would start at in September, went out into their playground, and lined up so as to spell out Madeleine's name-- to show their support for the McCanns.

A helicopter was on hand to film these proceedings. Apparently this is the most important thing to be happening in the East Midlands today... I wonder how many other children from the region have gone missing over the past month? Or don't they count?