I no longer feel sorry for the McCanns

[chirpychirpy]

Kate & Gerry McCann appeared at the Leveson Inquiry today to state that media coverage hindered the search for their missing daughter Madeleine. Lots of people go missing every day, and the cases that receive any publicity are greatly assisted by the media spreading the word. Madeleine's disappearance received global coverage, as a result of which only people in remote areas of the World will have been unaware of the case. That kind of free publicity is beyond anyone's wildest dreams. Sure, not all of it was positive, but that was largely because some of the McCanns' decisions were dubious at best. Strikes me the McCanns should show immense gratitude to the media rather than this horrible bitterness. What do you think?

[DTCwordfan]

They are just witnesses in an intense inquiry - the Press was both helpful and obtrusive - focus on that here not the awful details of what went on and their own role in losing their child. It is an appalling event but not the core of what evidence/reasoning is being presented in the Leveson inquiry.

[chirpychirpy]

craft1948, what does that mean? what admirer?

[craft1948]

click the link and see the newbie registration..........

[craft1948]

lol they've been banned now.......

[chirpychirpy]

why/how would someone register with the same name? any idea why they were banned?

[craft1948]

Nope.

[ladybirder]

Just saw this now it's gone??

http://www.theanswerb...members/chlrpychlrpy/

[pusskin]

i thought it was you just banned chirpy. Whats going on? ha ha

[chirpychirpy]

I see they got one answer in somewhere - any idea what and where?

[Mamyalynne]

I have never felt anything other than sorry for their plight.

[Ankou]

"I'd still feel sorry for any family which had lost a young child in the circumstances they had."

agreed

[flip_flop]

What do I think?

I think the likes of you and I.Don No (who was so ripped to shreds on a similar post some months ago) are heartless, truly horrible people.

These people have lost a child for christ's sake. That would eat away at me like a cancer.

I have every sympathy for the McCanns - my heart bleeds for them - and people like you and I.Don No sicken me.

[atrollope]

yeah,I preferred the other chirpychirpy...who just wanted to know how to make spiced vinagar(sic)

[ladybirder]

flip it was my post you refer to and I remember it well. Full of the milk of human kindness it was NOT.

[Mosaic]

I won't join in hating like fitflop, but wholeheartedly back the sentiment. Facts are, a child goes missing, the family being quite intelligent have used press help to try and find her, they have been vilified and badly treated in many parts of the press, and I recall some time ago someone on this forum posting about the mother's 'miserable face'. Shame on that poster.
Why is the OP selecting the McCanns out of all today's witnesses? What about the coke-toting, tottie-buying Steve Coogan? Hugh Grant? It seems small-minded, mean and nasty to focus your hate on a bereaved family.

[flip_flop]

It this thread I was referring to;

http://www.theanswerb.../Question1016949.html

[ladybirder]

Ah! this is the one I was referring to but it's the same old ......

http://www.theanswerb.../Question1015572.html

[ummmm]

Wow...I read through those threads. I cannot believe what spite and nastiness sits comfortably inside some people.

I can't believe anyone can say the press dealt with things well. What did they have to gain by printing stories that held no factual truth, based on hearsay and a incompetent Portuguese police enquiry. The only thing they achieved is swaying the sympathy of some feeble minded readers that rarely get past the headlines.

[ravenmiss]

I feel sorry for anyone who has lost a child, end of. Lets also not forget the child has also lost her parents and family if she is still alive.