The McCann influence.
Karen Mathews, the mother of Shannon Matthews is due to be sentenced for kidnapping her own daughter at Leeds Crown Court, alongside her former partner’s uncle, Michael Donovan, 40.
It was revealed that Donovan kept her imprisoned as part of a plan he and Matthews hatched to claim a £50,000 reward offered by a national newspaper.
Police believe the pair may have been influenced by the coverage of Madeleine McCann’s disappearance, which was a high-profile news story in the months before Shannon went missing.
The Select Committee on Culture, Media and Sport has recently requested written submissions for an Inquiry into ‘Press Standards, Privacy and Libel’. The inquiry was commissioned in the wake of concerns regarding the reportage of both the McCann case and the Max Mosley case.
The written submissions are being perused as we write. There is no date yet for oral submissions, but we shall keep you informed as soon as there is.
January 23, 2009 at 23:52
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Humble apologies, Ms Raccoon. My mid-swoon mutterings aren’t always top
drawer – and neither, apparently, is my beauty regime.
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January 23, 2009 at 20:39
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Let’s hope she stays down long enough to get some proper beauty sleep.
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January 23, 2009 at 19:03
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(comes to again just long enough to wonder if that’s Dracoon Malfoy, Harry
Pottamus’s arch adversary… )
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January 23, 2009 at 22:03
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I thought I heard a big bang.
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January 23, 2009 at 18:55
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(Being very easily unnerved, Smudd emits Shaggy-style “Gulp!” and falls,
once more, into a dead faint)
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January 23, 2009 at 18:51
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Is that Swedish for Draconian?
Dracoonian men from Sweden would be lovely!Mmmm!
- January 23, 2009 at 18:49
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That sounds a bit Dracoonian.
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January 23, 2009 at 18:48
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Oooer. Lumme indeed Smuddy!
Lumme Lumme Illuminati-time!
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January 23, 2009 at 18:12
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Oooer. Lumme. Sounds like we’re all headed for Raccoon ruin…
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January 23, 2009 at 18:01
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Gloria Smudd 01.23.09 at 5:06 pm [edit]
After all, how would society
function without footballers?
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Precisely Gloria Smudd! How would society function?
Society would fall to pieces if all the males and ladies like Delia Smith
were not allowed to vent their pheromones by gathering together and shouting
and hollering like men engaging in war.
Men can be men for a couple of hours and women can be ……… errrrrr ……..
football lovers!
But at the end of the day – it is a good way of collecting healthy men into
one area where a bit of focus and mind-control can take place in a quite
innocuous yet potent way.
Round ‘em up!
One day soon – we will have to do this ……….. Mark my words!
The end is nigh!
- January 23, 2009 at 17:54
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THE MCCANN INFLUENCE PART 194
“Hundreds of angry mothers furious that Madeleine advert at the cinema
frightened their children…”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2017815.ece
- January 23, 2009 at 17:46
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THE MCCANN INFLUENCE PART 94
“She grabbed the toddler’s arm…”
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January 23, 2009 at 17:50
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January 23, 2009 at 17:06
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After all, how would society function without footballers?
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January 23, 2009 at 16:39
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January 23, 2009 at 16:35
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Funny you should say this Anna Raccoon! I was just going to talk about the
same thing!
Once again ……… one of the working classes has been caught out and
prosecuted. This woman is obviously a waste of space and no use to society.
Therefore she has been prosecuted for something that made me laugh.
I know that it is wrong of me to laugh …….. bit I am un-pc enough to admit
that I laughed …….. and I bet loads of you out there laughed as well if you
were to be honest.
Anyway ……….. my point is ………. She would not have been prosecuted if she was
a doctor or a footballer.
Being a doctor or a footballer would have meant she would have been too
useful to society and would not have been allowed to have a blemished
record.
Useful people are not allowed to have their records blemished. Useless
people must be prosecuted at all costs ……… and usually by fast-track
methods!
- January 23, 2009 at 16:34
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‘The McCann Influence’.
What a title!
Under this heading could come…
* Around
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January 23, 2009 at 16:19
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Just to place on record here that The Madeleine Foundation has made a
12-page, 50-paragraph submission to the Select Committee on Press
Standards.
The prevailing mood seems to be: ‘The papers were really beastly to the
McCanns, making innuendos suggesting they knew what had happened to Madeleine.
The libel awards against sections of the press were fully justified and we
must make sure that the press are not so beastly to people like the McCanns in
future’.
The Select Committee is considering the Max Mosley case as well, and it
looks like their take there might be: ‘Poor Max Mosley, how beastly it was of
the ‘News of the World’ to tell us all about his enjoying sad0-masochism
sessions dressed up in German uniform. We must put a stop to this, especially
if you are rich, or famous, or an MP’.
Naturally The Madeleine Foundation has an entirely diffeent ‘take’ on these
issues; unfortunately under Select Committee rules I am not allowed to
publicise our submission before it is considered, unless the Select Committee
itself gives permission.
To put it in a nutsehll, however, we say that there should be no knee-jerk
moves to curb press freedom based on the truly extraordinary and unique case
of the ‘disappearance’ of Madeleine McCann.
The Select Committee has also been sent a copy of ‘What Really happened to
Madeleine McCann? – 60 Reasons which suggest she was not abducted’
- January 23, 2009 at 14:00
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Both given 8 year sentences.
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