Sunday Times sued by McCanns

[Mr Gray]

The Press

Freedom of the press in Britain is freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices as the advertiser's won't object to. ~Helen Swaffer
Nuff said

Shes wrong....apart from their position on contentious issues proprietors print what will sell their papers and advertisers are interested in how many papers are sold...dAVEL...

[Alice Purjorick]

Shes wrong....apart from their position on contentious issues proprietors print what will sell their papers and advertisers are interested in how many papers are sold...dAVEL...

You are talking bollox and would realise it if you analysed your statement properly.
I sometimes wonder why any one in the world ever bothers having an opinion when yours trumps everything.
Trump being the operative word it would seem; comes from the same part of the body as your opinions.

[Miss Taken Identity]

Sometimes it goes wayyyy over the head.

 

The News of the World collapsed because advertisers wouldn't touch it with a barge pole -simples!

[Mr Gray]

Sometimes it goes wayyyy over the head.

 

The News of the World collapsed because advertisers wouldn't touch it with a barge pole -simples!

The news of the world collapsed because of the phone hacking scandal by its staff...causing  a public backlash...nothing to do with the prejudices of it's proprietor

[Mr Gray]

You are talking bollox and would realise it if you analysed your statement properly.
I sometimes wonder why any one in the world ever bothers having an opinion when yours trumps everything.
Trump being the operative word it would seem; comes from the same part of the body as your opinions.

she's still wrong...Murdoch prints what sells papers..he wouldn't let his own prejudices get in the way of making money...that's why he's so wealthy

[Mr Gray]

Can I suggest you read Flat Earth News by Nick Davies.

I don't need to. I'm well aware of the distortion carried out by journalists to sell more papers...I'm well aware of lies told by newspapers and journalists...I'm well aware govt massage figures..
What I don't accept is that a newspaper is simply the projection of the proprietors prejudice

[TitoMuzzy]

What I don't accept is that a newspaper is simply the projection of the proprietors prejudice

Not just 'a' newspaper, but the whole of the News International stable of titles turned on the Conservative party in favour of the Labour party at the whim of Rupert Murdoch, ensuring the election of Tony Blair, and then again on the Labour Party in favour of the Conservative party, ensuring the election of David Cameron, once again at the behest of the newspapers owner.

Are you really that narrow minded and gullible to 'believe' what you are being brainwashed to 'believe' ?

[Alice Purjorick]

Try reading my posts again and you might understand...someone said 20 years ago that what wins elections is"Tits on page 3" and nothing has changed. I just don't subscribe to the Icke school of thought

Not many do but you you suggest they do because it is one the strategies in your Propaganda for Dummies manual.

[John]

Why do you think the McCanns won their libel action?

Very simply, the Sunday Times settled out of court because they accused the McCann's of purposely withholding the e-fits from everyone for five years thus impeding the investigation.  We all know now of course that they did not withhold them for five years and that they were passed to police some months after their agents Oakley commissioned them.  The fact that the McCanns never saw fit to promote the e-fits however is neither here nor there and leaves everyone free to ponder why?

Surely the parents of a missing child would want to make every scrap of information available to the public and especially any e-fits which could lead to her discovery?  What happened between the time those e-fits were commissioned and their handing over to police which tainted them so badly in the eyes of the parents?

[Mr Gray]

Very simply, the Sunday Times settled out of court because they accused the McCann's of purposely withholding the e-fits from everyone for five years thus impeding the investigation.  We all know now of course that they did not withhold them for five years and that they were passed to police some months after their agents Oakley commissioned them.  The fact that the McCanns never saw fit to promote the e-fits however is neither here nor there and leaves everyone free to ponder why?

Surely the parents of a missing child would want to make every scrap of information available to the public and especially any e-fits which could lead to her discovery?  What happened between the time those e-fits were commissioned and their handing over to police which tainted them so badly in the eyes of the parents?

  even more simply none of us know the reasons ST settled...even if you think you do

[ferryman]

The fact that the McCanns never saw fit to promote the e-fits however is neither here nor there and leaves everyone free to ponder why?

Surely the parents of a missing child would want to make every scrap of information available to the public and especially any e-fits which could lead to her discovery?  What happened between the time those e-fits were commissioned and their handing over to police which tainted them so badly in the eyes of the parents?

Tainted e-fits?

Never.

It really is perfectly simple.  E-fits of a man seen carrying a child in close proximity to apartment 5a at just about the time Madeleine is known to have been abducted could not be released other than in the context of a live and on-going investigation.

That was the judgment the police made and the McCanns had no business gainsaying that judgment, even if they were in a position to, which isn't clear, at least to me ...

[Angelo222]

It really is perfectly simple.  E-fits of a man seen carrying a child in close proximity to apartment 5a at just about the time Madeleine is known to have been abducted could not be released other than in the context of a live and on-going investigation.

That was the judgment the police made and the McCanns had no business gainsaying that judgment, even if they were in a position to, which isn't clear, at least to me ...

hmm    &%+((£

Then again could it be that one of those tainted e fits was just so like Gerry that they didn't dare take a chance??

[jassi]

I believe the end result will be an unsolved case.
This will suit almost everyone.

[lordpookles]

nooooooo, i want a conclusion whatever the result and whether it is in 20 years time I hope/believe we will see a resolution...

[sadie]

nooooooo, i want a conclusion whatever the result and whether it is in 20 years time I hope/believe we will see a resolution...

Just be patient, your Lordship.

I think they are almost there ... might take a few months tho', cos they are thorough