Daily Express, We'll Find Her Alive

[Wonderfulspam]

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/435128/Madeleine-McCann-We-ll-find-her-alive

They are definitely looking for a corpse then.

[carlymichelle]

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/435128/Madeleine-McCann-We-ll-find-her-alive

They are definitely looking for a corpse then.

i mean no disrepect to little maddie but why is    she the posterchild of missing kids in the Uk   Im sure there are many many more  missing  children then her why  is the focus on  HER

[BigFatBlonde]

i mean no disrepect to little maddie but why is    she the posterchild of missing kids in the Uk   Im sure there are many many more  missing  children then her why  is the focus on  HER

Just the way the media works I'm afraid, the story got a lot of coverage so she becomes the poster child. Loads of people have parkinsons disease but Muhammed Ali springs to mind, with Bi Polar it is Stephen Fry, with alcoholism it's George Best (or Gazza I suppose) and with child abuse it's 'Baby P'.

Interestingly most of them are white british - I'm sure in other countries they have their own 'racially suitable' examples.

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[Lyall]

i mean no disrepect to little maddie but why is    she the posterchild of missing kids in the Uk   Im sure there are many many more  missing  children then her why  is the focus on  HER

Because it's Madeleine, Carly. If it had been a boy who went missing, the case would have been nowhere near the phenomenon it was in 2007. Madeleine's pictures themselves (particularly the iconic ones) created it.

There's lots of media discussion (and academic research too I think) about this there somewhere.

[Lyall]

i mean no disrepect to little maddie but why is    she the posterchild of missing kids in the Uk   Im sure there are many many more  missing  children then her why  is the focus on  HER

It was exactly the same with the last, iconic picture of the girls from Soham in 2002. That picture itself generated the massive public interest, not the media.

[Lace]

i mean no disrepect to little maddie but why is    she the posterchild of missing kids in the Uk   Im sure there are many many more  missing  children then her why  is the focus on  HER

I think,   and it's just my opinion.    That the interest in the Madeleine McCann case has been caused  as it happened abroad.   The internet was around to spread the word.   The parents were accused of faking an abduction and hiding her body and the co-ordinator wrote a book.
 

[jassi]

I think,   and it's just my opinion.    That the interest in the Madeleine McCann case has been caused  as it happened abroad.   The internet was around to spread the word.   The parents were accused of faking an abduction and hiding her body and the co-ordinator wrote a book.

The book only came later. The interest had been generated long before that.

[Lace]

The book only came later. The interest had been generated long before that.

I believe it generated more interest to the case.

[jassi]

I believe it generated more interest to the case.

Given that it was never published in English (other than on the net), I think you overestimate its influence.
The McCann case was very big, even back in the very early days of the Mirror forum.

[Lace]

Given that it was never published in English (other than on the net), I think you overestimate its influence.
The McCann case was very big, even back in the very early days of the Mirror forum.

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Maybe,   but to have the co-ordinator of the case write a book saying that he thought the McCann's were guilty of faking an abduction and hiding their child's body,  would I believe had had a lot of people reading the book.

He was the investigator of the case and he said he knew that they had lied as in the title of the book 'The Truth of the Lie'     well the title itself would entice people to read it.

[jassi]

f
Maybe,   but to have the co-ordinator of the case write a book saying that he thought the McCann's were guilty of faking an abduction and hiding their child's body,  would I believe had had a lot of people reading the book.

He was the investigator of the case and he said he knew that they had lied as in the title of the book 'The Truth of the Lie'     well the title itself would entice people to read it.

Its not as if it was serialised in the Express or the Mail; indeed, the UK media seems to have given it a very low profile and hardly mentioned it, if at all.
It is only the determined internet user who would be able to access it and as they mostly haunt the various forums already, the book is unlikely to have told them anything new

[Redblossom]

if a tiny tiny percentage of the uk population did google for it it will have been after the mccanns got it banned...thats a sure way of spreading interest!