Shocking!!!

@ubermik wrote:

“Blah blah”

Happy to oblige

:lol:

Finally…… a post I didnt fall asleep half way through reading… :D/

I,ve just looked at this video link, showing the McCanns visiting a holy shrine, wandering around hugging and kissing everyone.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/video/videoplayer/0,,31200-1267060,.html

I also read some comments on a blog on sky news and some of the comments were spot on. Especially the one by Don from Aberdeen who commented about the parents “tearless faces”.

i hope it does stay in the news for madelienes sake. but i agree with other readers i am starting to get an increasingly ‘icky’ feeling everytime i hear the mccanns speak of the emotional and spiritual comfort they are receiving. where is the comfort for their daughter? they have seemed so focused on their campaign/setting up the fund etc its as if they have forgotten how to react normally as a parent. if of course there is a normal way of reacting in such an extreme situation. but as a parent and a human being something tells me it isn’t how they have done it. the staged photo opportunities with their other children for instance i found particularly distasteful on madelienes behalf. where are the tears for their daughter? i would be unable to function or even stand up i would be so overwhelmed with grief at her loss and worry for her safety.
Posted by: amanda, liverpool 22 May 2007 15:40:44

I have found it very unsettling watching the parents of Madeline through this whole very sad affair. I can only compare what I would be like if my daughter had been taken in this way (I know people would act in different ways) but I would need to be sedated as the thoughts of what could be happening to my little girl would be too much to bear. Video of them laughing with others and then putting on a serious face once they realised they were being filmed and photographed, they both seem too composed and relaxed…I hope I am wrong, but it all seems very strange!
Posted by: Sarah Canada 22 May 2007 16:08:09

i have just watched the new interview by the parents and am i the only one who is starting to feel uneasy with them all this talk of campain managers funds etc i think they are starting to love the exposure still feel for them but just a bit uneasy sorry
Posted by: brian,scotland 22 May 2007 15:05:49

Dont you people think you are going a little overboard with these comments like “the worlds heart is breaking” and “mobile phone companies should send a picture of madeline to all their customers?”. Millions of children go missing every year and there is no news coverage like this. I cant see why this single girl out of a world of billions is any more special than the other children.
Posted by: Me, Here 22 May 2007 14:51:50

I wish everyone cared so much about the thousands of children that go missing in the U.K. every year – almost 500 have been reported missing since May 3rd alone. The rewards offered so far in this case would keep the National Missing Persons Helpline running for a whole year. I can’t begin to imagine the pain that both Madeleine and her family are going through but the coverage this case is getting makes me angrier by the day. So much more I could say but will no doubt get lynched for what I’ve said already!
Posted by: Sandra, Edinburgh 22 May 2007 14:51:38

I feel the media has covered the story as far as it can, if there are any new leads then yes inform the public of them, but in truth everyone has tradegy to deal with in their own lives and dont need to be inundated with news coverage of a missing child, being that hundreds of children go missing every week. We have to remember that if it wasnt for the selfishness of her parents madeline would be safe and well.
Posted by: m ireland 22 May 2007 14:00:44

Personally I don’t think there should of been huge media coverage in the first place. Don’t get me wrong, I do care about a missing child getting missing but there are bigger things. For example the terrorists attacks in Iraq yesterday which killed around 50 people only got a brief mention on Sky News. What about the people dying in Iraq? This Madeline McCann story has turned into a huge media circus.
Posted by: John, London 22 May 2007 13:59:01

For the love of God, we’ve heard enough already. Harping on about it is not going to bring the kid back and paying for her parents to stay in Portugal wallowing in misery is definitely not going to do the job either. There are countless other families all over the world grieving for a missing child, why is Madeleine’s case more important than theirs? Because she’s British?
Posted by: Wendy, London 22 May 2007 13:35:56

Time to move on. Its a tragic situation but Im bored of it now and Im fed up seeing her parents tearless faces every day. This is over the top media response. Just like Diana event. How many other kids have gone missing, or run away from home since Madeline was abducted? Do we hear about them? Does anyone remember Ben the 3yr old boy who was abducted on holiday in Greece about 15 years ago. I dont remember his parents being given the luxury of so much media coverage. He has never been found. It must be a horrific feeling to have a child go missing but they should not have given whoever took her the opportunity in the first place. They should come home to their families and give their twins a bit of stability in their lives again.
Posted by: Don, Aberdeen 22 May 2007 13:27:39

@johnboy25 wrote:

Uber, you’ve got competition for your ‘I post the longest messages around here’ title!

Now see here a minute. I don,t often post long messages, that was a one off. tut. :roll: :wink:

Incidentally, I see Eastenders are scrapping a future storyline out of respect. So has the world stopped turning or something and I just wasn’t told?