To be shocked at Sky News' coverage of the excavations in Praia Da Luiz?

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I didn't see a lot of the initial coverage, as I was working abroad in 2007. But the Police are potentially excavating a little girl's body, regardless of the circumstances, and they've got live cameras at the scene, waiting. It's macabre, and it seems like regardless of the fact MM was a tiny little defenceless girl, she's fair game for the media.

I just think it's shitty. Do a quick piece on it, but is there any need for the close ups of the excavation site and a blow by blow account of what's happening?

Her poor family

I'm not playing top trumps. I'm not just posting to you. And you keep attacking me and then saying night, night. Bizarre.

You seem determined to be offended. I'm trying to explain why I gave the perspective that I do...I've experience of this, I see it from a different perspective - I think I'm allowed to post about this

sunshine you're right of course; abduction is a theory. I had forgotten that.

I hope they can find what they're looking for, after all this time.

The fact is, the McCanns have always courted the media, so I cannot see how anyone can complain about the latest developments of the case being reported.

I don't think anyone is complaining about the latest developments in the case being reported. People.are.concerned about the way that reporting is being conducted.

Santas and vevvie Rightly or wrongly the Portuguese in that area feel very hard done by as their livelihood and property has been badly impacted by all this publicity and there is great resentment of the McCanns so they are not likely to be hugely supportive of this happening just as the holiday season starts. That is a more likely reason for the local woman and her comments rather than her thinking that child abduction is acceptable

Thanks for deleting my posts MNHQ - I get it now, what I said was not acceptable to you but it's perfectly ok for other posters to call me, and I quote "a vicious rancid old hag, pompous, repellant, nasty, deluded, misguided, ghoulish, witch burning, fucking people, shit spouting". It gives me a good guideline about what is acceptable for describing other posters, should I so wish.

But all those children going missing, presumably in the same area. Doesn't sound like a safe place to take your kids on holiday. Surely something official must be being done to find the missing children, I do think it would affect tourism if the place is a well known abduction site. I don't think I would want a family holiday there after that woman's statement.

I have just reported that post silveroldie2 - it clearly breaks the talk guidelines.

How would people like this to be reported? Surely the most famous missing child case the UK has seen is newsworthy? Or would you all like it to be hushed up?

It's also been in the news that the case on Genette Tate is being looked at again? Should that be in the news - not that her disappearance ever had anything like the same publicity.

I don't think PDL is a hotbed of child abduction.

'It's not either/or'

Exactly Kim, but some people can't get their heads around that

Genette Tate disappeared when the world was a very different place in terms of media coverage.

How the hell have her family lived with that for 36 years, coped and not coped her father said this morning on R4.

24/7 news coverage is here to stay. And as for shots of the police work going on at the moment, it's not that different to a reporter standing outside Buckinhgam Palace while talking about the Royal Family, or standing outside the House of Commons while taking about politics - it's just meant to add credibility.

Madeleine McCann's disappearance has been big news since day one and will continue to be until some kind of resolution is reached. Personally, I do think the police will find - or are looking for - a body. What they are more likely to looking for - and more likely to find is evidence such as a piece of clothing, or a bag, or a discarded sim card or some such.

It will be interesting to read how the British mainstream media will report the latest development in the libel case - if they report it at all - but that is probably another thread for another day...

Tinkerbell, PDL may not be a "hotbed of child abduction" but there have been many reports of men breaking into apartments and sexually assaulting young girls, around PDL.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/madeleine-mccann-investigation-police-looking-at-further-cases-of-sexual-assault-on-british-girls-9277859.html

I thought I had heard that those reports had been discredited Excuse? Could be wrong though.

We have holidayed on the Algarve for years, including at Praia da Luz (one of those at the Ocean Club) and I have never heard of anything like this. Portugal is a very family oriented society so I am very surprised if that is true

The trouble with google is that you can find anything to back your cliam up.

No those reports haven't been discredited. The independent report I've linked is from Apriil 2014, so very recent.

For some unfathomable reason the Portuguese police didn't seem to realise there was a serial sex attacker around PDL, despite the 17 incidents reported to them at the time they happened. I wonder if it could be something to do with them not wanting to put off tourists?

icansee I agree with your comment. It's especially true for those who are determined to feel the patents are c

Sorry

.. parents are covering up something. There's some ridiculous stuff out there.

Bile, bubble, and reported. I hope your post is deleted soon.