Madeleine Coverage

Have all the big name presenters now come home, no longer able to extend their paid holiday any longer, or are some still out there?

Its madness, near where I live somebody has tied yellow ribbons to a road barrier.

And we don't even live near Madeleine's home town.

never underestimate the power of the tabloids

Interesting story on the Sky News Website as to what happens next after the media interest subsides..

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91210-1266801,00.html

At one point Sky News had 31 people out there

And look at the associated article "Will We Forget?". Honestly, what do people think wearing yellow and keeping the story at the top of the hour every hour is going to do? Ar-tards.

Someone complaining in our local paper tonight that Wrexham Council wouldn't set up a shrine for Madeline in the town square. They basically said Madeline had no connection at all to Wrexham, so it wasn't appropriate!


The stupid woman has set one up at her house instead!

Someone commented on the Sky website in the comments section that it was poor timing of Tony Blair to go to Iraq and take media attention away from the Madeleine story.

And then they went one further and said that they should delay the handover from Tony Blair to Gordon Brown as now wasn't the right time to be distracted (or words to that effect).

Crazy people out there. And not just the abductors.

This whole bizarre Madeline loss-by-proxy, mass hysterics and bleeding heart thing went too far the second it floated from minor news story to major story of the year. Sad it is but not sad enough to force simpering taglines at the end of e-mails or even a ruddy minute silence. The only people who truly need to take any emotional investment is her family, everyone else suck it up. It's someone before this event you didn't even know exist, why waste your tears on them? "We can help find the pondscum which took them!" No you can't, it's not your place to do so anyway. Citizen policing helps nobody, helps vilify every suspect until finding the guilty party if ever and marks them as good as dead through blind hatred.

Of course some of us are pretending to feel sadness and outrage. You have to make yourself concerned in order to actually be concerned. For the vast majority, this concern -- or more specifically, the immediate justification for it -- is unreasonable. You can choose to be shocked or sorrowful at the loss of this kid or even Iraqi civilians, but what have you really lost? Before they were dead, they didn't even exist to you. You never experienced them as alive, and you never experienced them as individuals. So what are you mourning? A collective? A statistic, perhaps? Maybe that's why it's so easy to compare them quantitatively. But then, so what? They're both overshadowed by the Holocaust, and the Holocaust by the inevitable death of the human race.

But again, what have we invested ourselves in? The loved ones, the ones who actually experienced a real loss -- we don't know who they are. And they don't know who we are, either. In fact, the only thing these two groups have in common is the media circus. And that's what we're really invested in, the fantastic tale... what do we really have to do with it? Those who do the whole giving to the fund and wearing yellow ribbons have no idea. They can only imagine losing their own loved ones, like going to the movies to see a tragedy. Regardless of how long they watch, how much they care, those families will never even know the audience members exist. They can't possibly give a ****. What we're doing is not for the victims. It's for us. And that's normal. But to react with the outrage of a victim, to demand someone or something to blame, is ridiculous. We haven't been violated.

Bah, I've totally lost focus on what counts as truly tragic as some things just aren't otherwise we'd never be able to do anything short of mourning the loss of faceless masses and photogenic white children. One thing's for certain, I haven't for this girl because I'm sure a lot do go lost quite often.

Well said Nini.

From Private Eye :


http://www.rp-networkservices.com/tvforum/uploads/madeleine_media_coveragetvf.jpg

http://www.rp-networkservices.com/tvforum/uploads/madeleine_media_coverage2tvf.jpg

http://www.rp-networkservices.com/tvforum/uploads/lastest_media_outrage.jpg

There's also a good piece about the "persecution" of Robert Murat by the tabloids, which is well worth a look.

Trust Private Eye to say what alot of people are thinking!

I was amazed today to read of the McCann's forthcoming world tour of religious shrines to pray for Maddy's safe return - very practical, but I suppose they have to do something with all that money.

What next, a lecture tour of the US?

Whilst I have sympathy for their loss, their actions throughout have been somewhat strange. This latest stunt is ill-advised and irresponsible; but then again so is leaving your young children unattended at night in a strange area with the window open.

I have not ventured into this thread before because I was afraid that it would be people pouring out their sympathies.

I am now glad to see that some people are seeing this in the same way as me.

One person is missing. Just because they were born in this country and this side of the millenium this is aparantly so much more important that 50 Iraqi 30 year olds being killed.

I am also sure there is more to this than there seems, but I am not going to risk making a libelous statement. If anybody would like to PM me about this on the other hand.....