Media response to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann excessive?

[Electrix]

I doubt they have done it. How could they have gone on TV hundred of times and answered questions. They couldn't have lied in very single one. They have children and I doubt they would have wanted to harm them.

I hate how the media are so involved in this.

 

[Electrix]

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91210-1283316,00.html

Madeleine's Parents Return Home

Updated: 13:28, Sunday September 09, 2007

The parents of Madeleine McCann have arrived in their home village after being named as suspects in the four-year-old's disappearance.
After they flew back, Gerry McCann choked back tears as he read a statement saying: "We played no part in the disappearance of our lovely daughter."

He and his wife Kate, 39, said they had left with the "full agreement" of the Portuguese police.

Detectives have told Sky News the investigation could take another year, and the couple could be called back to Portugal "at any time".

The two doctors were comforted by British holidaymakers on the flight from Faro airport in Portugal.

The plane landed at East Midlands Airport at 12.15pm. The McCanns then drove to their home in Rothley, Leicestershire.

They returned 129 days after Madeleine vanished from their holiday apartment in the Algarve resort of Praia Da Luz .

Sky News Online's Kate Sullivan, who was on flight 6552 with the family, said they were whisked through the VIP section and allowed on to the jet first.

Passengers offered words of comfort as they filed past them on the plane.

Sullivan said the McCanns sat with their twins Sean and Amelie in the front row of the plane. The second row was kept empty to give them some privacy.

She said: "There was a huge media scrum at the airport, with reporters from all around the world.

"The plane is full. But one TV broadcaster was offering significant sums of cash to passengers to try and get on the flight."

Sky News presenter Kay Burley, at Faro airport, said it was a very sad day for the family.

She added: "They arrived as a family of five. They are going back as a family of four."

British passengers on the same flight as the McCanns told Sky News how sad it was for them to leave without Madeleine.

Diana Moran, the former Green Goddess on the BBC's Breakfast Time show, said: "Can you imagine being them? Their nightmare is getting worse and worse and worse.

"I'd love to go up to them and give them a hug."

Another passenger, who gave her name as Becky, said: "I think everyone's thinking just how terribly sad it is for them. It's a tragedy."

The McCanns have no bail conditions attached to their arguido, or formal suspect, status and retain their passports.

Sky News Crime Correspondent Martin Brunt said: "It appears a deal has been struck - the authorities are satisfied that Kate and Gerry McCann will return to Portugal if required.

"The fact they are official suspects and haven't been charged suggests the case against them isn't as strong as the police have suggested."

Police changed the couple's status from witnesses to suspects after questioning them separately at Portimao police station.

Sources close to the family say detectives believe the two doctors may be responsible for the four-year-old's death - a suggestion rubbished by the McCanns' friends and family.

 

[union_jak]

http://www.zossip.com/madelines-parents-did-it

This made interesting reading.

It sums up what I've been saying really.

Perhaps they wanted media attention in a reverse psychology way?
When the Soham girls were abducted and killed, it was the actual killer who rushed to the front of the media scene to help out.

For weeks and weeks they were keen to keep it front page, then as soon as the suspicion falls on them, they ask to be left alone and their privacy respected.

They travel the world 'searching' for her and as soon as Portuguese police take them in for questioning they have decided to return back to the UK.

 

[kainedamo]

Whats the first thing you do when being accused of a crime "you did not commite" and coming back to the UK? Give an exclusive interview to the Sunday Mirror, of course

 

[union_jak]

I hate how the media is handling this, they've being too one-sided, it's disgusting. Where are the facts and impartiality? It's bad, sentimental journalism and the fact the McCanns themselves have struck up deals with the papers is an awful cash-in.

 

[blake]

http://www.zossip.com/madelines-parents-did-it

This made interesting reading.

Yeah, in other recent news that site featured an article called 'Vanessa Hudgens Leaked Nude Photo'

 

[mrsparkle]

Yeah, in other recent news that site featured an article called 'Vanessa Hudgens Leaked Nude Photo'

Whats your point?

 

[kainedamo]

I hate how the media is handling this, they've being too one-sided, it's disgusting. Where are the facts and impartiality? It's bad, sentimental journalism and the fact the McCanns themselves have struck up deals with the papers is an awful cash-in.

Yeah, it disgusts me too. If you ask me, as soon as the police named them as suspects, the media should have backed off to more of a neutral stance. Instead, I think it was Friday, I was reading the paper and the writer said "the McCanns need our prayers now more than ever"

 

[Electrix]

the fact the McCanns themselves have struck up deals with the papers is an awful cash-in.

They have lost their daughter and jobs aswell. They have two other children to care for. I think the probably need the money.

 

[blake]

Whats your point?

Check the reliability of your sources

 

[terry78]

I still have to wonder why when an average family loses their daughter suddenly it's worldwide news. If it was an esteemed figurehead then yeah, I could understand. But I doubt if my little cousin went missing there would be a manhunt going on.

 

[union_jak]

They have lost their daughter and jobs aswell. They have two other children to care for. I think the probably need the money.

They have already received nearly 3 million in their campaigning. They shouldn't be selling their story regardless of if they got paid, it's in poor taste hardly retrospective.

 

[rdh007]

The UK media excessive? Never.

 

[mrsparkle]

Check the reliability of your sources

How is that source unreliable?

 

[kainedamo]

How is that source unreliable?

Its called "zossip" for one thing.

 

[hammy]

I know this is front page news in the UK, but in the states, we hear very little. Has it been proven that they sedated the children, or is that just speculation?

 

[chamber-music]

The UK media excessive? Never.

The UK a media don't know when to shut the hell up!
Some of those papers are still going on about Diana.

 

[kainedamo]

I know this is front page news in the UK, but in the states, we hear very little. Has it been proven that they sedated the children, or is that just speculation?

Speculation.

 

[the_ultimate_evil]

They have lost their daughter and jobs aswell. They have two other children to care for. I think the probably need the money.

ok there is a chance they did not kill her, but there is also as big a chance they did, what myself and a lot of the others in this thread are saying is simple. why is such a taboo to ask these "parents" left there 3 children alone in the first place. why are they both flying off to meet the pope in the middle of there hunt, if there that religious have one go to the pope and the other keep looking.

we're not damming the people without proof, we're wanting to know why they are not being accountable for what they have actually done.

 

[Cyrusbales]

"We're going to stay here until she's found, help us and keep her case alive, front page in the media, raise money etc etc..."


After being questioned under suspition.


"OK, we want to be left alone, we're going home."


Wow, that's one way to look guilty....

 

[hammy]

Speculation.

Okay, thanks. From some comments it sounded like this was fact.

 

[chamber-music]

Its funny how quick people are turning on the McCanns with the slightest sniff of evidence. What Happened to innocent until proven guilty?
Can't people see how the media is munipulating people. I'm not saying their innocent but all we have is little bits of leaked information to the media. People should keep an open mind and not be so quick to judge when they don't know all the facts.

 

[Cyrusbales]

From the start it was obvious she was a bad parent, so even if she didn't do it, she is still to blame to a degree.

 

[kainedamo]

Its funny how quick people are turning on the McCanns with the slightest sniff of evidence. What Happened to innocent until proven guilty?
Can't people see how the media is munipulating people. I'm not saying their innocent but all we have is little bits of leaked information to the media. People should keep an open mind and not be so quick to judge when they don't know all the facts.

If anything, the media is bent on portraying the McCanns as angels

And people aren't suddenlt "turning" on them. I thought the whole thing was fishy from the very beginning. I've always believed the media circus the McCanns themselves created was detrimental to actually finding Madeleine. How they carry themselves seems very off to me. Giving exclusive interviews to magazines, for example. They seem very hungry for money for a couple that just want to find their daughter. They were very quick to run back to the UK as soon as suspistion was turned on them. And what did they do when they got back? Give an exclusive interview to the Sunday Mirror.

 

[chamber-music]

^
Even if they did kill her and went on a media offensive akin to Huntley I doubt they would of accepted money for exclusive media interviews and as such.

I don't think the media portrayed them as angels but they where sympathetic to their plight as the media is to most of these kind of cases.

The portuguese police said they could return home which is what they and many residents in portugal wanted as the place was turning into a media cicus and putting a lot of pressure on the police to come up with results.