Madeleine Coverage

Do you honestly think Ian Huntley could survive in the open world now? Like heck he could, he may have done wrong but to kill him wouldn't make the rabid idiots of our fair nation any bit more better, morally correct or not. It's daft because even if he paid his debt to society under the eyes of the law, someone would still want him dead and it's stupid to have someone pay with their life as if it meant something beyond murder in the notion it was "doing justice". Because of that and the media's tagline of "paedo on every corner, hide your kids!" anyone even suspected of it is immediately dead anyway and require police protection and a change of identity. Before that case even popped up it was very rare anyone would feel like they'd kill that chap who looked at their kid a bit funny besides the criminally paranoid. Don't see the same vilification for rapists, murders or all-round bad eggs dya?


Hmm, there is Big Brother coming up as mentioned. "Roll up, roll up! Come see real live freaks prat about for your sordid amusement! For 3 straight months. gaze at our gallery of the lowest of human ineptitude, vanity and general malaise! Only £1.50 per minute, come join the fun!!"

Eitherway, stop the bleeding hearts and yes, it's all back to that incident in 1997. Never again shall we be capable of seeing things through a true lens but a grossly distorted one and that is what saddens me the most.

And on Monday.....

Commercial radio stations across the UK are to put aside their rivalries on Monday morning to play a special version of Simple Mind's "Don't you forget about me" - as the campaign to find missing baby Madeleine McCann continues. The song, mixed by GCap Media has been distributed by IRN's RadioDirect facility.

John Perkins, managing director at IRN, who have supplied some of the news clips which are mixed into the song says it's a good example of the industry working together: "All the stations are to combine and create one hugh audience and impact on Monday morning. It's similar to how commercial radio worked together for Radio Aid", he told RadioToday.co.uk
From http://www.radiotoday.co.uk/news.php?extend.2003

What incident in 1997? I can't recall off the top of my head.

Oh, yes, I think I've just remembered. Diana.

This will occur at 8am on Bank Holiday Monday - both IRN and Sky News have given up the 'newslink' solus airtime for this awareness campaign. I've already heard the audio - very moving.

Yes, I noticed our old friend Clarence lurking in the shadows too. It seems he's now Director of the government's Media Monitoring Unit - in order words, a senior spin doctor.

He seems to be providing a Max Clifford-type service to the McCanns.

I don't quite see why the government should be funding this service for the McCanns, or even why it should fall in the MMU's remit, as it's not exactly a news story about the government.

If the McCanns want a spin doctor, surely it should be funded by the appeal fund they set up.

Until now I've resisted jumping on the "it's only because the McCanns are middle class" bandwagon, but I find it hard to envisage Clarence Mitchell providing this service to a couple of chav parents who lost their kid in Butlins.

Ugh, don't be telling me it's "moving", I know the notion alone is making my stomach do it right now. To compare it to Radio Aid is doing a great disservice to themselves to be honest, that needed awareness but this doesn't in any way seeing how saturation point was reached, what, a week or so ago now? it's cute though, don't believe I'd be able to call a 4 year old child a baby without doing a disservice to the child but hey, they've done a disservice already so what difference will a little more make, eh?


I agree, ain't nobody going to help some ugly kid from some chav estate because they're already bad parents, right? Pff, tell me why they need a spin doctor. I feel the government shouldn't have any involvment with this, it's not their place and the McGanns need a spin doctor/publicist only on the principle they have something to be deceptive about should anything leak.

Bowel moving?

No.

What it does is make you focus on Madeleine herself, not her parents, not the family, not the media hype - just a re-focus to a four year old child missing.

... due to her parents being on the piss when they should have been looking after their children!


Notice today in The Sun now they say they were dining "a few yards away" - rather than the true distance of over 150 yards.


Even if your local pub was next door or across the road, it would never be acceptable in Britain to leave young children home alone while you popped out to meet friends - and it's even more dispicable to do it in a strange place!


People have their own lives to get on with and their own problems - let the McGanns deal with their mistakes and leave the rest of the country out of it!

Whilst we may all have an opinion on the parents actions - leave those aside for one minute and think of the hell that girl has been through and is going through - that is if she is still alive.

As I said the whole point of the Radio broadcast on Monday is to focus on the little girl - NOT the parents or the media hype.

We've had three weeks to think about that - and I won't be forced into thinking about it for another minute!


How many of our soldiers have been killed in Iraq in the last four years - and how often have the commercial stations come together to play a song for them?


P.S. You're missing the point of this thread - this is a TV presentation forum and hence the reporting of the story is focus of the discussion, not the story itself! If you're that concerned about her, go and tie a yellow ribbon round an old oak tree or something!

Well said.