Who thinks that the media has been playing with the Mcaans feelings?

Question

...as in, one day they are the good guys and the next, they are the bad ones

Answer 1

me

Answer 2

what about madeline why is this all about the parents

a small child is missing two parents refuse to co operate tell blatant lies  and madeline is still lost

i would say the media have been kind to them they have advertized their fund a million times over and helped them to pay their mortgage

what about madelines feelings !!!!

Answer 3

Their feelings are irrelevant and while I'll never stick up for the press, they have printed what they have been fed, for or against. The fact that it depicts the Mc Canns in a bad light is not without basis. Being a parent myself, the last thing in my mind would be to leave my children in a room on their own while I went out boozing with pals. This was the actions of an educated couple, who the hotel staff had offered to babysit. Ask yourself would you do that in this country and then why do it abroad. They refused that offer WHY!

Answer 4

Quite clearly the Mc's are the bad guys, they neglected their children and are fully responsible for the 'disappearance' of their daughter?? So; no.

Answer 5

The police treat them that way as well.  The story has a lot of holes in it.

Answer 6

I do. Dunno why but the whole thing just seems a bit odd to me...

Answer 7

I know one thing, the child neglecting McCanns and their chums in the media have been playing with our feelings from day one, and many have fallen for their BS hook, line and sinker

Answer 8

I do. What they don't realise is that they're not just playing with a grieving families' feelings...they are playing with lives.

What if the public believed their early baseless accusation that the McCanns murdered their Madeleine...no one would search for her. They would consider her no more & not somewhere desperately needing to be found.

The media has a lot to answer for as do all those who accuse without proof.

Answer 9

The McCanns have been playing on the sympathies of people with their outpourings of artificial grief, the money is drying up because most people are realising just exactly what these two are !

Answer 10

no they are just stimulating public's interest - they couldn't give a stuff abotu Maddy - press are ambulance chasers!

Answer 11

Yes, its disgraceful. Its clearly obvious they should always be depicted as the bad guys they are.

Answer 12

I was in Praia-Da-Luz  just 1month after Maddie went missing, and the weather wasn't brilliant, so we spent an afternoon in a popular internet cafe, (just a few hundred yards from the apartment Maddie went missing from,) and a popular "hangout" for the press, and media reporters. We had been there for about an hour, and there was a news report on new findings in the case. Someone had anonymously reported that Maddie's body was buried on waste ground, about 15 miles from Luz, and we all gathered around the huge T.V. screen to find out the latest. About 5 press men stood laughing, and punching the air. We asked them what was going on, and one admitted they had sent rival press on a "fools errand" I asked why would they do such a thing, and he told me that if anything new unfolds, THEIR camera's would be there first, as the others were miles away investigating a "false lead" that THEY had invented, and sent their rivals on.I told them they were disgusting, and that the parents must be watching the report, and must be heartbroken. He literally shrugged his shoulders, and said "That's the name of the game in this game" Disgusting, and totally true!!!!

Answer 13

The media are playing the Mccans about, but they're there for the money, commissions, and then not worrying about anyone but themselves. I feel sorry for them, losing their daughter, and then being subjected to this level of abuse, all so a reporter can get paid. Why can't they focus on someone who really needs to be picked on, like the man in Austria, who kept his daughter locked in the cellar, and then raped her multiple times, having 7 children, by his own daughter, while keeping a marriage to a different woman going, who was the daughters mother, for over two decades?

Answer 14

are you saying that the news/media should consider the feelings of the people involved when they report any story?

i cant really see how that would happen because then you would never have any 'negative' stories - which lets face it most news is

personally i think the mccanns courted all the press attention, lorded it up in front of the worlds press and portrayed themselves as the injured party rather than accepting they had made a huge mistake - then have a massive strop when papers print negative stories and decide to sue them

how about the dewsbury matthews lot - how do you think the press should have dealt with that

i dont think that the newspapers have portrayed the mccanns as 'bad guys' as you put it, at worst they have said that the police believe their are inconsistancies in the stories and that some editorials point out the bleeding obvious that you dont leave your children unattended whilst dining out in a unfamiliar environment