Madeleine McCann

Paedophiles and pedants.

May 1, 2009

Tonight, I feel as angry as any of you do, on hearing the news that the man convicted of killing Baby Peter Connolly has also been convicted of raping a two year old girl. I am glad that I feel angry. It is a good sign, it means that I am finally recovering from the emotional [...]

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The documentary they didn’t want you to see…….

April 30, 2009

Censored in the UK – the documentary made by the policeman in charge of the McCann investigation.

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McBride, McCann, McSpin and McSmear

April 16, 2009

There has long been speculation regarding the high level of support the McCanns received from within the government when their daughter Madeleine disappeared. It has been defended as ‘normal government support’ for a family in distress – but was it government support or Labour Party support? The recent revelations of a high level ‘dirty tricks campaign’ [...]

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Gonçalo Amaral’s Documentary

April 11, 2009
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Responsible Reportage, Myths and Mythology.

April 7, 2009

Ben Goldacre drew my attention to several articles on the responsibility the media must take for increasing aberrant behaviour by their very reporting of it. He was talking in particular of suicide, following the death of Sylvia Platt’s son. Details matter, as ever. Overdoses increased by 17% in the week after a prominent overdose on [...]

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Henry Deedes – running to catch up……..

April 4, 2009

Blogs are an important editorial innovation that must be embraced by the news industry, according to Guardian Unlimited‘s assistant editor Neil McIntosh. I assume he meant that the news industry needs to catch up with the fast paced world of the blogosphere, where news is often read and dissected on line several days before the [...]

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Hold the presses – investigative journalism is not dead!

March 30, 2009

Many readers have turned away from newspapers towards the Internet, the Internet in turn has spawned a reversal of the accepted procedure whereby news filtered from those in the centre of power outwards to the oppressed masses - the news has started coming inwards to the main stream media; independent bloggers reporting on items of local [...]

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