News of the World made hush payment of £125K to McCanns

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Post  tigger on Sun Dec 18, 2011 8:25 am

sammyc wrote:Poor, poor Madeleine. Barely gets a mention from her parents, campaigners, CM, CR et al at the moment - it's all about then now isn't it? Or has been from the start.


Glad you mentioned it. But then Madeleine is a trademark not a living, talking child. That would have been too damn awkward.

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Re: News of the World made hush payment of £125K to McCanns

Post  candyfloss on Sun Dec 18, 2011 1:30 pm

From Anorak.................

Madeleine McCann: When Hush Money Becomes A Donation


OUR Maddie: Anorak’s look at Madeleine McCann in the news: when News of The World “hush money” becomes a donation.

THE dread News of The World paid £125,000 to Madeline McCann fun. The money was made as part of the paper’s apology for publishing Kate McCann’s private diaries without her permission.

The Guardian says the money was paid “on condition that the terms of the deal remained secret”. A confidentiality agreement was signed in September 2008.

Last week, however, the NoW’s last editor Colin Myler, told the Leveson Inquiry that it was his belief the McCanns had okayed the paper’s use of the diary. The Guardian says the McCanns deny the claim.

All sides are sticking to any agreement, if indeed onr exists, and not talking on the matter.

One thing os interest is that the Guardian’s headline was altered. The initial headline spoke of a”hush payment”. Why? A simple error – or more “sexing up” at the Guardian..?


As for the case, well the Star says:

POLICE have finally admitted Madeleine McCann was abducted four years ago.

Fact! How did they prove it? We are not told:


Her parents Kate and ­Gerry had fought ­authorities to accept she was snatched from their holiday apartment in ­Portugal.

But only now have ­detectives put in writing that her case is one of ­abduction.

The Met at first refused to release paperwork under the Freedom of Information Act on the grounds it would “adversely harm the ­investigation”.

But, after an appeal, ­police finally handed over details to the Daily Star Sunday last week after a wait of nearly three months.

A source close to the McCanns, both 43, said: “Kate and Gerry are pleased the police are treating it as an abduction because that’s what they have said was the case since Madeleine went missing.”

We do not see hos the Met proved the child was abducted. But if the Star says so, it’s good enough, right?

http://www.anorak.co.uk/305919/madeleine-mccann/madeleine-mccann-when-hush-money-becomes-a-donation.html/






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Re: News of the World made hush payment of £125K to McCanns

Post  candyfloss on Sun Dec 18, 2011 1:53 pm

From Max Farquar..........


Hush Up The Hush Payment

Well, here’s a strange thing, that occurred over on the Guardian website yesterday. When their article about the McCann evidence, at the Leveson inquiry, first went up it had this headline … “News of the World made hush payment of £125K to McCanns”. Then, for some reason or other, the headline was changed to … “McCann fund received £125,000 from News of the World”, which puts a completely different spin on the whole story.

Normally, when an editorial change is made to an online article, you would expect to see when that article was updated, within the information under the ‘Article history’ tab. Nope. Not in this case. Nothing about the ‘hush payment’ headline. Only a mention of an alteration for publication in The Observer at 00.10 GMT, hours after the headline change was made.

Does any of this really matter or surprise? No. Probably not.

But I do find myself wondering … “what was all that about then?”





http://www.maxfarquar.com/2011/12/hush-up-the-hush-payment/


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