The McCanns and the Media

http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/couples-trial-by-new-media-a-vicious-affair/2007/09/23/1190486132036.html

Sounds like he has read only the media reports he writes about, and not the PJ files.

weissnicht wrote:http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/couples-trial-by-new-media-a-vicious-affair/2007/09/23/1190486132036.html

Sounds like he has read only the media reports he writes about, and not the PJ files.

morning weissnicht, it appears Dr. Robert N Moles for Networked Knowledge.

[This edited version of the report has been prepared by Dr Robert N Moles]

If if just looks what the media writes, he should keep personal comments like " If they are innocent, as the known evidence suggests" out of it. He clearly knows nothing about the evidence.

The article was of course written in 2007 before most of the Portuguese police files were released. However, most journalists seem to have had a lobotomy and are still writing absolute nonsense even now.

Not Born Yesterday wrote:The article was of course written in 2007 before most of the Portuguese police files were released. However, most journalists seem to have had a lobotomy and are still writing absolute nonsense even now.

Morning NBY......I have always said there are far too many Newspapers for the size of Britain . The situation for such a small Country and limited readers is untenable. Add to this, the local Press and then you get to the reason they print so much sleaze......to sell more papers, nothing to do with Journalism. We also now have online Press, where will it all end??

The author Dr Robert N Moles was born and educated in the UK. He graduated in law from Queens University, Belfast, and completed his PhD at Edinburgh University. He previously held positions as Associate Professor of Law at the University of Adelaide, senior lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the Australian National University and lecturer in law and jurisprudence at Queens University Belfast. His previous book was Definition and Rule in Legal Theory (1987). Currently he works full-time on the Networked Knowledge Project, which investigates alleged miscarriages of justice that have occurred in South Australia over the last 30 years.

http://www.arthurboycottgreer.org/index.php/thejournalbykarenjohnston/9-publications

From the first post here:
The resulting spiral - unsourced British reports of unsourced Portuguese reports - created a perfect storm: huge media fascination with almost no facts to feed it. The McCanns are partly to blame. Well-educated doctors, they have hired spin doctors and tried to harness the media to their cause. Their stated reason is understandable: they want to keep the focus on finding their daughter. But the journalist Matthew Parris wrote in The Spectator last week that their savvy media strategy - down to Gerry McCann's daily blog and constant photos of Kate McCann clutching Madeleine's pink cuddle-cat - was starting to hurt them. With both reporters and the public alert and resistant to spin, the McCanns had proved "unwisely media-wise". unquote


I wonder how the writer of this article would feel if he knew that the mcCanns had registered not one, but two websites under the name of
Cuddlecat.co.uk and Cuddlecat.org.uk before the end of May 07. Perhaps the constant advertising of the essential prop that told her Maddie had been abducted might have make him think. Cuddlecat told her that it was an abduction. Rattle once for yes, twice for no I presume.

But 'resistant to spin'? I live in hope, so far it's worked quite well on the general public.

tigger wrote:
I wonder how the writer of this article would feel if he knew that the mcCanns had registered not one, but two websites under the name of
Cuddlecat.co.uk and Cuddlecat.org.uk before the end of May 07. Perhaps the constant advertising of the essential prop that told her Maddie had been abducted might have make him think. Cuddlecat told her that it was an abduction. Rattle once for yes, twice for no I presume.

But 'resistant to spin'? I live in hope, so far it's worked quite well on the general public.

A lovely gem from little lori campbell in her article from 12th August 2007..

Missing Madeleine McCann's favourite pink Cuddle Cat toy was taken from her arms as she slept and placed beyond her reach by her kidnapper. That is why police are certain Madeleine was snatched while she was asleep - and was NOT killed or injured in the holiday apartment.

When her mum Kate, 38, tucked Madeleine into bed, the four-year-old was cuddling the toy - but it was later found placed on a ledge that Madeleine could not have reached.

There is also further "concrete evidence" that Madeleine was still ALIVE when she left the holiday apartment. Her kidnapper had a window of just five minutes to strike - from when dad Gerry last checked on the children until family friend Jane Tanner saw a man carrying away a child she is sure was Madeleine wrapped in a blanket.

Now, the Sunday Mirror can give a true picture of what happened when Kate found her daughter missing. We can reveal:

Police have specific evidence from the apartment that she was still alive

Madeleine was kidnapped as the toy she had fallen asleep with was left on a ledge placed too high for a child to reach

There was a window of less than five minutes for a kidnapper to pounce - not enough time to kill her and clean up

Police do not believe blood found in the apartment was Madeleine's as it was not consistent with signs of a struggle (The blood was found behind the sofa lori..Maddie was in bed!!!)

The patio doors were unlocked but the intruder used the window to escape with Madeleine as the shutters were forced up. (why not just use the chord instead!!!)


http://themaddiecasefiles.com/topic7728.html

I opened my Observer to see a pic of KM and GM. It was being used to illustrate a short article on the likely after effects of Leveson. It spoke of celebs like JK Rowling and 'ordinary people' like the McCanns at the start of the piece, after referring to those who were the movers and shakers of Hacked Off. I'd have put the McCanns in the celeb category too by now (unlike the Dowlers). They have gone down into history, mythology, or whatever, by now on their own terms. Their viewpoint is the one almost universally accepted. I don't think anything the Met review could come up with (not that I expect the 'review to be in any way productive) could change this now. It is carved in stone. It is holy writ.

comperedna wrote:I opened my Observer to see a pic of KM and GM. It was being used to illustrate a short article on the likely after effects of Leveson. It spoke of celebs like JK Rowling and 'ordinary people' like the McCanns at the start of the piece, after referring to those who were the movers and shakers of Hacked Off. I'd have put the McCanns in the celeb category too by now (unlike the Dowlers). They have gone down into history, mythology, or whatever, by now on their own terms. Their viewpoint is the one almost universally accepted. I don't think anything the Met review could come up with (not that I expect the 'review to be in any way productive) could change this now. It is carved in stone. It is holy writ.

Ah well! but remember what happened to the first lot of holy writ carved in stone, they were smashed to pieces.