I have been very disappointed throughout the whole of the Madeleine McCann furore and the media treatment of the couple.
Since the child disappeared they press have been nothing short of scandalous.
It seems that, in the eyes of the British press, the parents, who are incredibly irresponsible, can do no wrong.
The tabloids, and unfortunately some of the broadsheets, have been more interested in damning the Portuguese police than providing an accurate account of a mising child.
A newspaper is supposed to act like a mirror held up to society, reflecting the events so that the public can see the world for what it is.
But for some reason, maybe it's a class issue or maybe even a race issue, the McCanns seem to be exempt form criticism.
And it seems to me that they deserve to be criticised. It must be hard to lose a daughter but at the very least they have been awful parents.
Why would any parents in their right mind continually leave three young children on their own, at night, while they go out for a drink?
There are also rumours that they couple drugged their children - with the police claiming that the McCanns other children were difficult to awaken after their elder sister went missing.
The fact remains that only the McCanns know whether or not they were involved in the death of their child.
So I don't know why the Daily Mail is so sure that they are innocent.
Sunday, 23 September 2007
Treatment of the McCanns beyond biased
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The whole British media has been biased.
I don't think it is a race issue, because I could see exactly the same reporting if an equally well connected non-white family were caught up in similar circumstances.
Indeed the bias would be worse, because any criticism would be suppressed with cries of racism.
Until the McCann spin machine shuts up, I suspect this case will run and run.
http://tinyurl.com/2pb75c
Olegario Sousa claims that “the leaks were intended to push Kate and Gerry McCann into confessing they had killed their daughter The concerted fightback by the McCanns will reveal that, for all the police posturing when they named the couple as suspects, their evidence was at best flimsy, at worst supposition. ''He has told me he always worried that the evidence against the McCanns was weak," says one former policeman. ''He was worried it would not bear scrutiny."
The McCanns admitted to relatives that they had been against seeking legal counsel: now they had no option. "Was it naivety or just total belief in their own innocence that they didn't think they needed a lawyer?" asks Gerry's brother John. "They were so convinced that because of their close collaboration with the police they didn't need one." Now, of course, they are all too aware that this "close collaboration" was a smokescreen: they did not realise was that the Portuguese police's efforts to find Madeleine had been lacklustre for some time.
Check out the forums at Mirror.co.uk for quite an indepth discussion of the British Media's coverage of this case. Biased is an understament. The question for me is why? I believe the defining factor here is CLASS over race - if the McCanns were a chavy couple who had left their nippers in a caravan while they went to Karoke, they would have been utterly utterly condemed.
If they were a black or asian family they would have got the coverage to start...it would be Meh situation.
The whole thing is weird, The PM getting involved, Richard Branson,The POPE FFS! I smell Freemasons or something equally as shady. If you find me dead somewhere, remember I said this!
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