Yet more never ending Maddie-balls.
Could you possibly fucking merit it?
Thanked them for what exactly? For enriching themselves further through publishing spurious sightings which even the McCanns must know have about 1% chance of actually being their daughter? For filling up the newspaper during the silly season, which the McCanns must also know is a really onerous task? For raising their hopes even slightly just to dash them again? The idea that somehow every sighting raises awareness is also counter-productive and counter-intutive. Sure, it raises awareness: it encourages every cross-eyed nitwit to imagine that the little blonde girl they've just seen is definitely Madeleine McCann, especially if she's just apparently been sighted in the local area. Last week it was rumoured that she might have been snatched by a Belgian paedophile ring, and what do you know, suddenly dozens of people in Belgium have seen plucky little Madeleine McCann, apparently not being sodomised every hour of the waking day by swarthy foreigners but instead walking about the streets looking "sad", even while being given her "favourite" chocolate ice cream.
Today's award for the best Maddie-balls though has to go to the Sun's deputy editor Fergus Shanahan, via Anorak:
Considering you're the deputy editor, how about you stop splashing them on the front fucking page and save us all the collective misery?
They're known collectively I believe as "journalists".
In other words, it is all about the profit. Praise the money!
After this turgid crap comes a bolt from the blue:
Ah yes, at the drop of a hat Scotland Yard should be ready to get in the Maddie copter to fly to where the latest attention seeker has seen Europe's most instantly recognisable child. Will Rupert Murdoch be good enough to put up the cash needed to get this venture off the ground, and save taxpayers from being at the whim of the morons in charge of our daily papers?
Update: Ben in the comments suggests the above might have been a parody, considering Shanahan was delivering his usual crap here. If anyone can confirm if the above was in the Sun today/yesterday, drop a comment in.
Away from Madeleine McCann, the Sun was beating its war chest over Brutal Putin, for which see my post on The Sun - Tabloid Lies blog.
Related:
Enemies of Reason - Madeleine hopes/fears
KATE and Gerry McCann have been dealt a fresh blow in their search for daughter Maddie.It's interesting to note that it's Kate and Gerry McCann that have been dealt a fresh blow, and not the Sun newspaper, which screamed yesterday on its front page "IS IT HER?" The answer to which is of course, no, and that no one with more than five braincells believed for a second it was. Let's face facts here: if Madeleine has been abducted, it's not very likely that she's going to be dragged through town by the abductor in broad daylight in front of all and sundry, especially not if the abductor(s) was/were part of a paedophile ring, as the tabloids were speculating breathlessly about last week.
The girl resembling Maddie shown in CCTV footage yesterday is not believed to be her.
A Belgian man has claimed that the girl in the footage was his daughter.
The woman pictured is believed to be the girl's nanny.
Kate and Gerry McCann, from Rothley, Leics, thanked The Sun for its investigation.
Thanked them for what exactly? For enriching themselves further through publishing spurious sightings which even the McCanns must know have about 1% chance of actually being their daughter? For filling up the newspaper during the silly season, which the McCanns must also know is a really onerous task? For raising their hopes even slightly just to dash them again? The idea that somehow every sighting raises awareness is also counter-productive and counter-intutive. Sure, it raises awareness: it encourages every cross-eyed nitwit to imagine that the little blonde girl they've just seen is definitely Madeleine McCann, especially if she's just apparently been sighted in the local area. Last week it was rumoured that she might have been snatched by a Belgian paedophile ring, and what do you know, suddenly dozens of people in Belgium have seen plucky little Madeleine McCann, apparently not being sodomised every hour of the waking day by swarthy foreigners but instead walking about the streets looking "sad", even while being given her "favourite" chocolate ice cream.
Today's award for the best Maddie-balls though has to go to the Sun's deputy editor Fergus Shanahan, via Anorak:
“I tried to imagine the misery Kate and Gerry McCann must be going through with these Maddie sightings. It’s too awful.”
Considering you're the deputy editor, how about you stop splashing them on the front fucking page and save us all the collective misery?
“They must cling to any hope. But some of the latest rash of ‘sightings’ are based on thin detail.”
“Sadly, the Maddie tragedy is attracting its fair-share of attention seekers”
They're known collectively I believe as "journalists".
“It seems unlikely that Europe’s most instantly recognisable child would be walked through city streets by her abductors.”
In other words, it is all about the profit. Praise the money!
After this turgid crap comes a bolt from the blue:
“But if convincing reports of sightings continue, Scotland Yard should set up a Maddie squad capable of moving instantly anywhere in Europe.”
Ah yes, at the drop of a hat Scotland Yard should be ready to get in the Maddie copter to fly to where the latest attention seeker has seen Europe's most instantly recognisable child. Will Rupert Murdoch be good enough to put up the cash needed to get this venture off the ground, and save taxpayers from being at the whim of the morons in charge of our daily papers?
Update: Ben in the comments suggests the above might have been a parody, considering Shanahan was delivering his usual crap here. If anyone can confirm if the above was in the Sun today/yesterday, drop a comment in.
Away from Madeleine McCann, the Sun was beating its war chest over Brutal Putin, for which see my post on The Sun - Tabloid Lies blog.
Related:
Enemies of Reason - Madeleine hopes/fears
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I think that it was a parody. Fergus Shanahan's newest column is here:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/columnists/fergus_shanahan/article1545378.ece
Posted by
BenSix |
Wednesday, August 13, 2008 1:12:00 AM
Yeah, I did look for it and didn't find it, my thinking was it was in a separate column on his page that wasn't included online, as I don't touch the paper itself. I don't think Anorak usually does parodies though, and if it is it's an excellent one. I fucked up the link also, which doesn't help.
Posted by
septicisle |
Wednesday, August 13, 2008 1:46:00 AM
I kid you not, yesterday as I watched the show jumping at the Beijing Olympics, the camera picked out a blonde girl of about 5 years of age in the front row. I thought that could have looked like Madeleine, but it was too brief and common sense tells me it is highly unlikely...just like all the other "sightings"...
Posted by
jailhouselawyer |
Wednesday, August 13, 2008 11:21:00 AM
The message is clear: if you have a little blonde girl (forever 3/4 as you pointed out in SepticEye?)
don't go shopping unless the kid behaves itself and does not 'wannna go home', and don't wear a headscarf or look non-Caucasean.
I doubt if they actually thanked The Sun, but all publicity eh?
I blame Facebook, myself
Posted by
eric the fish |
Wednesday, August 13, 2008 4:21:00 PM