HOW THE BRITISH MEDIA VIEWS THE MCCANN-HATERS

How long must Kate and Gerry McCann suffer?


Posted by Keir Simmons. 8 November, 2010



More than three years ago Madeleine McCann vanished from an apartment in a Portugese seaside town. Madeleine was three years old and 11 months. She has now been missing for almost as long.

She disappeared on the evening of Thursday May 3rd. I arrived in Praia Da Luz the next day. I felt sure she would be found and that I would be back in the UK before the weekend was over. I now know how wrong I was.

So much is easy with hindsight. I can say today with confidence that the police hunt for Madeleine was utterly inadequate. One of the detectives admitted as much in a newspaper article this weekend. I didn’t once see officers searching apartments in the area.

I look back at the media’s coverage of the events that would unfold with deep disappointment. Good journalists under pressure from London took far too many risks with the truth. Collectively in my honest view, we lost our balance. Some journalists lost the plot.

At the centre of it all this were two parents who had no idea how to handle such pressure. The last time I saw Kate and Gerry McCann was at a news conference around a year ago. They looked as shell shocked as when I first saw them – perhaps more so. The suffering they are enduring is unimaginable.

And yet, there continues to be a group of individuals who use the internet to attack these two poor parents. I hear from them all the time via Twitter. They demand that I investigate this or that “if you don’t you’re not a reporter” one informed me recently. After a report I produced for NBC News over the weekend I was subjected to a torrent of abusive messages – one suspects they are co-ordinating their attacks for best effect.

There was even one sick individual who created a Twitter account pretending to be Madeleine and then ‘tweeted’ about where she was. Thank god, the account was quickly taken down.

These people say they are ‘truth seekers’. They are not. What they write is just nasty, obsessive and vicious. They are not journalists, not even campaigners, they represent the worst of the human psyche electronically unleashed.

People who read this blog will know that I see free speech as fundamental. And that I love Twitter and Facebook because they make free speech available to anyone with a computer. But we now see consistent examples of that free speech used irresponsibly.

So I find myself considering cutting these people off, ‘blocking’ them in the terminology of Twitter. Is that the right thing to do? I think it might be.

After this article they will send me abuse and vitriol over the web. I can deal with that of course. But why should two parents who have suffered so much continue to have this groundless campaign against them? Those involved claim they believe in ‘truth’ yet ignore any evidence that doesn’t fit their conspiracy theory. They claim to love children, yet ignore the effect their ‘campaign’ might have on Kate and Gerry McCann’s twins as they grow up and begin to comprehend such things.

I worry that by allowing them to communicate with me, by effectively engaging with them, I am encouraging them. Perhaps it’s time for me in my own small way to say ‘stop’, I’d like to know what you think. Please send me your views on Twitter (ironically) or Facebook.

Feel free to send me your feedback – find me on twitter @KeirSimmonsITV or Facebook

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Ms B$own may not know it, but they have TV in Englandshire. Yes, they do! And they have these things called 'News Reports' - some of them even have 24 hour a day news. Yes, they do!

Keir is rather high up in these circles....

Perhaps Ms B$own is more at home with the written word? Here's what the tabloids think of the people, like her, who hate and try to exploit Madeleine McCann and her parents.







Yet there she was last night, cosying up to them. Go figure!

Maybe this will strike home with 'profiler' B$own?

think i might tweet the link to Keir re Pat B$own's money making jaunt via twiter

Good idea, rhodes.

Can someone please, write here the links from the newspapers above, about such news? Thank you.

again, the disgusting behaviour of antis exposed.

it is good to know that the press are aware of the disgusting persons the antis are.

We'll post news as soon as we get it, Pedro, and here's hoping the press pick up on B$own's stunt - she wants attention, she will get it.

ok bb1, but the attention brown wants is not a pleasant attention brown expected.

In Britain, B$own will be seen as a rough piece of trailer trash trying to score $$$$$$$ at the expense of the British doctor parents of a missing British child.

In Portugal, B$own will be seen as a rough piece of trailer trash stomping around with her 'experts' and trying to tell them what they did wrong and what they ought to be doing. Because she is too up herself and arrogant to bother reading the official PJ files.

If B$own thinks us Brit/European peasants are in need of her Yankee know-how, she'd better think again. And quickly, too.

Yeah, I agree with you bb1.

pat brown=

To normal, decent people, B$own will be seen in the same light as the scum who tried to extort money from the McCanns by pretending they had information about Madeleine's whereabouts.

I seem to recall they went to jail?

Do you think she has ever actually been outside the USA, I mean other than a holiday in Canada or in Mexico before they started wholesale slaughter there? She does come over very ignorant about life across the Pond, doesn't she? LL

She either doesn't know, or doesn't care more likely, that the UK and Portugal have their own laws, thank you very much.

And neither country appreciates the likes of her telling them what to do.

Given her utterances and threats, I could well see her being refused entry to the UK.

Does she really think she has some sort of Godgiven right to inflict her vulgar self on Rothely, and demand that people allow her to search their homes?

Does she really think she is going to be welcome in Portugal, having thoroughly insulted that nation too?

It is one thing European nations insulting each other - they have been doing that for centuries.

It is completely a different matter when a complete outsider shoves her nose into something that is none of her business, and thinks she can ride rough-shod over the laws of both nations.

It is one thing European nations insulting each other - they have been doing that for centuries.

It is completely a different matter when a complete outsider shoves her nose into something that is none of her business, and thinks she can ride rough-shod over the laws of both nations.

It's the kind of behaviour that does the perception abroad of the USA no good. America doesn't have that good a reputation in Europe and other areas of the world - a pity, because I have always had excellent treatment from Americans both in and out of the USA - and being pushy and insisting you are tight(typing error!) right all the time does NOT endear anyone to @*seholes like her. She may well find out, if she ever makes it over the the UK, that her brashness and "I know it all so don't argue with me, you little islanders" attitude will end up in a less than nice situation. As for her visiting Portugal and throwing her weight around there, she may well end up falling down some convenient stairs. Maybe she should drop in on the police in Portugal after all? LL

This is odd. I cannot find public statements anywhere, from either Bennett or Morais, welcoming B$own's 'assistance' in the anti-McCann cause.

Don't tell me even they are embarrassed by the vulgar interloper and her squalid, unresearched leaflet?

Very odd Bonny. Perhaps it is an oversight? They may not have noticed her arrival yet.

Bennett must have done, what with her brief visit to his forum to thank all the mugs, sorry, Truthseekers.

Oh, and he is bound to have seen the soft-focus, flattering photo of his Star Member in her younger days which is now adorning his forum's banner.

All most odd.

bb1 wrote:This is odd. I cannot find public statements anywhere, from either Bennett or Morais, welcoming B$own's 'assistance' in the anti-McCann cause.

Don't tell me even they are embarrassed by the vulgar interloper and her squalid, unresearched leaflet?

Bonny dear, you don't welcome the Opposition, who is aiming to steal your thunder and hog the limelight, with open arms, now do you? LL

But she is a fellow "truthseeker". What is not to like?

Steal thunder, nothing - follow the $$$$$$$$$$$.

So, about a dozen pitchforkers are being expected to fork out for:

Bennett's legal bills

Gonc's legal bills

B$own's jolly in Portugal - she'll get the legal bill later.


That's the trouble with socks - socks only have as much $$$$$$$$ as their owner.

Of course, none of the three of them would be facing legal bills if they stopped persecuting innocent people. I don't suppose that's ever occurred to them, though.

sans_souci wrote:But she is a fellow "truthseeker". What is not to like?

Not a truthseeker, just a plain old $$$$$$seeker. LL

sans_souci wrote:But she is a fellow "truthseeker". What is not to like?

Don't you make me put a list up

Can we make wagers on which of the Truthseekers is going to be the first to explode in a bileball?

Re: My Thanks to All for your Support!It has been a crazy last few days but I wanted to stop in and say "Thanks!" to each and every one of you who have posted encouraging words and your support for the road ahead. I have been quite quiet since four months ago
happychick Today at 2:00 pm

.russiandoll wrote:
It demeans those sites to include posts like that and do not their admin ensure that offensive material is removed?

Bonnybraes is admin. She's the one who writes most of the awful posts and her 'sock' Lily answers her .
happychick


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