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Six weeks isnt it now shes been missing.Surely there was a registered child minder out there.

The detestable India Knight did a piece in the Times Online which, apart from inevitably bigging herself up, talked about the backlash against the McCanns.

They're not running this media circus because they want to be celebrities. They're doing it in the desperate hope that they can keep the story 'newsworthy', so that their daughter doesn't become yesterday's news. Given the circumstances, it staggers me that anyone can berate them for this.

Of course it's disproportionate coverage, but so what? Shouldn't the response be that all abducted kids should get this kind of mobilisation to find them, rather than vilifying a couple who have the nous, money and influence to pull out every stop in the hope that they'll get their daughter back?

To me, the McCanns were grossly negligent. Would you leave a million in cash on your bed, in a ground floor room that backed onto a street that you couldn't see, while you went out for a meal? No you wouldn't. Judging them is inevitable, but it's also pointless and irrelevant. It just makes for good pub and web chat.

The only focus should be on getting that child back, although I don't believe she'll ever be seen again, now.

An Elton John benifit concert? To raise money for what?

I didn't know the McCann's were doctors, but I might have guessed. I was at a party a few years ago and one of the couples had three small kids. When I asked where their kids were they replied " Oh, we left them locked in the car." I just laughed - 'knowing' they had to be joking especially as the mother was a paediatrician.

I was astounded when leaving the party to find that their 3 children in fact were locked in the BMW in a darkened street at about midnight. That taught me once and for all that selfish careless cunts are just born that way and remain so no matter what education they receive.

chatterji wrote:

> Shouldn't the response be that all abducted kids should get
> this kind of mobilisation to find them, rather than vilifying a
> couple who have the nous, money and influence to pull out every
> stop in the hope that they'll get their daughter back?

So are you suggesting that every time a child goes missing there should be this gargantuan press coverage? If that were to happen the media wouldn't have the time or space to cover any other stories!

The McCanns are symptomatic of this pervasive 'don't-blame-me-guv' culture! They are guilty of gross neglect of their own child. And yet when, unfortunately, their own child is abducted, all the blame for their actions is passed on to the rest of us in one form or another!!

These idiots have now moved on to adopt a level of sanctimoniousness which achieves the height of revolting arrogance!!

Difficult to judge, this whole case, but I do think that it's the press who have milked it for all its worth rather than the parents themselves. Their vulnerability has perhaps been taken advantage of.

However, I do think their social status plays are part. These are the affluent middle class of the sort many aspire to and the media panders to. The example setters, if you like. Thus their mistake is seen as a gross error of judgement, something atypical. Were they further down the social ladder (ahem) it may well have been seen as merely typical, something symptomatic of their assumed stupidity.

Garbage, they haven't blamed anybody else, they're just doing what I would do if it was my kid that was missing, and that's everything in their power to keep the story and her face in the media.