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

Always ends like this as such an emotive subject that no one will budge on what they believe. I know I won't.

they're responsible? Yeah, in the same way a woman is responsible for getting raped if she travels alone after dark and isn't wearing a full burkha. FFS.

Bubble, what bearing does any of this have on the current stage of the investigation?

The only person(s) responsible for any harm coming to this little girl is the person(s) who actually perpetrated it.

Agree any x

FFS,londonrach. How ironic that you are signing off your posts with a 'x'.

Perhaps some peoples' view is that the McCanns have courted media coverage for years so why can they now decide too much coverage is unwelcome? It's not my opinion personally but I see the point.

Christ london what kind of patients are you working with? And what has their age got to do with anything?

And I wish people should stop lying about the mcCanns refusing to answer questions. They answered hours of questions until their LAWYERS ADVICED them not to answer anymore. Please get you're FACTS straight.

(Sorry for shouting but some people don't seem to listen)

AllAbove- the McCanns haven't commented on the media coverage this week so how can you say they have decided its all too much? Do you know them or are you just making things up?

Excuse kate mccann gave an interview saying she had refused to answer questions she said she answered one but no more I think that is true if you read her book which I have.

This thread is about media coverage.

Those of you who want to chew over the ins and outs and your own pet theories about the case, start your own thread.

Maybe Londonrach works in a nursing home for retired detectives.

As far as I am aware, the McCanns are not objecting to the media coverage, I am. Along with lots of other right-minded individuals.

But isn't this how the Press treats all 'important' news? I.e. complete overkill.

Remember how the Press camped outside the Lindo wing last year for a couple of weeks, awaiting the royal birth, with commentators spouting on and on when there was absolutely nothing to report?

Noddy - maybe start another thread, but I will just ask was kate only interviewed once by the police? Iirc she was interviewed several times, answering all the questions put to her. It was only the last interview she refused to answer becasue her lawyers told her not to.

Noddyholder - she said she refused to answer further questions at the point she became an arguido - on the advice of her lawyers.

The sleeping medicine myth comes from her trying to explain to the police what Calpol was, which she did have in the flat. The police then briefed Portuguese journalists it was a sedative.

Excuse - why the venom? If you read my post carefully you will see that I said this is not my personal opinion. Perhaps try reading to the end of a post before firing off a knee jerk response.

There is no venom. Just tired of the misinformation on these threads.

You "see their point of view" about something which isn't true?

I wasn't purporting information as fact. It was supposition. Which is already rife on this thread and the media cover from the start.

Bubble. This is not the thread for your opinions on the case.

This is a thread about MEDIA COVERAGE.

Exactly Bile - it's a thread for discussion i.e. differing opinion. Some posters are clearly heavily emotionally invested.
Just as everyone parents in a different way, everyone would probably have handled that evening differently. I don't think anyone has said the McCanns deserve what happened.

allabove, you too should remember this is a thread about media coverage NOT opinions on the case.

I am not keen on thread police, but in this instance I think people do need to try for a bit of rigour and stick to the issue at hand.

Noted. Apologies. My first post was about media coverage and I then got drawn in.