One enduring myth.

[slartibartfast]

So you don't believe in the power of internet propaganda, malicious myth-spreading and fake news? 

...snip...

This case has been about the Internet vs MSM.

[jassi]

This case has been about the Internet vs MSM.

Much of the fake news has come from the Tabloids via unnamed sources.

[ferryman]

This case has been about the Internet vs MSM.

This 'case' has been about a missing and abducted little girl, and efforts to try to find her and supply her distraught parents with answers.

The rest is a meta-'debate' woven around that central theme by others.

[Alfie]

What is your daughter's rationale, Alfie?

Sorry.  Just re-read your post.

All the hype around the time they were declared arguidos stuck.

Still more depressing.

IMO people think they're being rather clever when they say they think the parents dunnit.  They want to look as if they've got special wisdom about and insight into things that mere mortals / sheeple like us simply aren't clever enough to have spotted or intuited.  I think this somewhat insecure need to appear really clever and insightful by challenging the accepted view drives most conspiracy theories - from the holocaust, to 9/11 to Sandy Hook to Madeleine McCann.  Also, mysterious conspiracies and cover-ups are always rather delicious to contemplate and indulge in, a lot more so than the banal truth of the matter, especially if the conspiracy indulged in involves the 'High-Ups' (which in most conspiracies it does, this one being no exception).  My daughter is only 18, so quite immature, when she's grown up I hope she will realise that her beliefs about this case (such as the parents used a hire car to transport Madeleine's corpse) are really rather silly. 

[G-Unit]

So you don't believe in the power of internet propaganda, malicious myth-spreading and fake news?  In your opinion the ones most to blame for making people think they dunnit is the victims themselves.  Well there's a surprise....   Funny isn't it that my daughter didn't cite either of those "most damaging" things as her reasons for thinking the parents dunnit it...?

You have quoted one person's reaction. Those I have mentioned the case to have mentioned the child neglect or the impression the parents have made in interviews. Your one person versus about 6 of my people. I speak from my own experience, as do you.

[Alfie]

You have quoted one person's reaction. Those I have mentioned the case to have mentioned the child neglect or the impression the parents have made in interviews. Your one person versus about 6 of my people. I speak from my own experience, as do you.

Oh, it's become a game of Top Trumps now has it?  So of the 6 of "your" people how many think that because the McCanns left their kids unattended that this is evidence that the parents hid their child's body, and what is the causal link between the two, in their opinion?  And is it a fact that your 6 people have based their beliefs purely on watching TV interviews and reading newspapers and have never once read a single myth or rumour about the case as promulgated by the AntiMcCann pressure group on the internet?

[Mr Gray]

You have quoted one person's reaction. Those I have mentioned the case to have mentioned the child neglect or the impression the parents have made in interviews. Your one person versus about 6 of my people. I speak from my own experience, as do you.

strange my experience was exactly the same as alf....a mention of a dna match

[Miss Taken Identity]

You have quoted one person's reaction. Those I have mentioned the case to have mentioned the child neglect or the impression the parents have made in interviews. Your one person versus about 6 of my people. I speak from my own experience, as do you.

Funnily enough those are the exact reasons people give to me G. Also some cannot understand their celebrity status...  they only gave an interview in 'Hello' Magazine ...