ufercoffy - HELP WANTED - pics from that Jeremy Paxman interview

by **Tony Bennett** 13.10.10 22:46

ufercoffy please - can you help -

Can you do the same tecchie stuff that you did with the BBC TV East Midlands video clip and help us by reproducing several stills of the remarkable changes in Dr Gerald McCanns' visual expression from 50 secs to 1 min 4 secs of his interview with Jeremy Paxman, 10 March 2009 - thanks:

http://newzinc.com/law/gerry-mccann-talks-to-jeremy-paxman/

by ufercoffy 13.10.10 23:02

by **Tony Bennett** 13.10.10 23:08

ufercoffy...

Wow, that was very very quick - thank you again.

I think the first and second of the above frames are of a facial expression of Dr Gerald's that lasted a good few seconds.

I would like to ask forum members what they see in that sequence of images...

by ufercoffy 13.10.10 23:14

You're welcome TB ufercoffy - HELP WANTED - pics from that Jeremy Paxman interview 725573

I haven't got sound on my computer - what was Jeremy Paxman saying to him?

by **Tony Bennett** 13.10.10 23:25

ufercoffy wrote:You're welcome TB. I haven't got sound on my computer - what was Jeremy Paxman saying to him?

PAXMAN:

"There was an entire media circus...

"They were camped out around you...

"You collaborated with the media...

"When it was convenient to you...

"You arranged the photos...

"You announced to the press where they could photograph you this day, or maybe tomorrow, that day and so on...

"Do you not think that somehow you reaped the whirlwind...?"

by littlepixie 13.10.10 23:57

Re: The above - he was remembering it and loving it!!

by aiyoyo 14.10.10 5:55

Paxman's quizzical look says it all!

GM considered himself put in his place.......
when he moaned about media intrusion - a self infliction which Paxman had no qualm pointing it out to him..

The smug look on GM's face when that was put to him shows raw nerves have been touched.

Quiet amazing display of acting skills by GM, but no one is taken in.

by aiyoyo 14.10.10 6:44

Guess what came up when you typed in 'jeremy paxman and mccann'? THIS!

Jeremy Paxman : Well earlier I spoke to Gerry McCann. I asked him if he'd been shocked by how the media had behaved.

Gerry McCann : It's more than shocked ... ur ... we were heart ... ur ...we felt that there has been a complete disservice done to our daughter, who is still missing. And that is the thing which is hardest to actually forgive. .... er .... There was no regard for that. There was no regard for the feelings of both Kate or myself, ... er ... our other children, in fact, our wider extended family.

Jeremy Paxman : Do you think you were naive?

Gerry McCann : I th ... it ... Of course we were naive in that ... in the sense that we have never been exposed to the media previously and I ... I think, though, that we were better protected than menemy ... than many, Jeremy.

Jeremy Paxman : But then you had this entire media circus ....

Gerry McCann : It really was a circus.

Jeremy Paxman : .... camped out, around you, but YOU collaborated with THEM when it was convenient to you, didn't you?
And you would announce photo calls and whether or not you'd be speaking that day - or maybe tomorrow or the day after. D'you .... d'you think to some degree you .... you reaped a whirlwind?

Gerry McCann : (smiling smugly) We reaped a whirlwind? - No, (cough plus tilt of head) I presume you're taking a very much a "devil's advocate's" position here on what you're doing. We have very clear objectives of what we wanted, and any parents would take the opportunity of trying to get information into the investigation that might help find their daughter. And that's what our clear objectives were. .... Um .... I think the one thing we'd probably do slightly differently is the .... the dividing line between 'when does media covering a story ... er ... on a daily basis' which happened and did discuss today about the aspect of when .... um .... we finished our trips ... er .... particularly to Germany, Holland, Morocco, where we felt there might be information relevant, we stayed on in Portugal because emotionally we were not ready to leave, and we felt closest to Madeleine there, and we fully expected, at that point, the media attention to die down, and .... and it didn't. And I think, with hindsight, we probably should have drawn a much clearer line in the sand, and even about being photographed.

Jeremy Paxman : We, the consumers, of course, see this scrum of cameramen and reporters surrounding a couple to whom a terrible thing has happened, and we only see it from one side, but what's it like when you're on the other side?

Gerry McCann : It's very intimidating, particularly when you've never experienced anything like that before and I have to say when I came back from the Police station, .... er .... on Friday the 4th of May and saw the mass of media ... er ... internationally gathered, I ..... it feels ..... the prospect of having them .... um .... door-stepping, invading your privacy, raking up anything from, y'know, your school days to potentially university, to things that have absolutely no relevance in the ongoing search, filled me with dread.

Jeremy Paxman : Do you draw a lesson about what ought to be done? I mean, it's a very broad question, but do you draw a lesson?

Gerry McCann : I mean ....Simplistically - and it is simplistically because the regulation and the law surrounding it and self-regulation is clearly quite complex, and what we would call for is some moves - and if it is a backward step ... We want more responsible reporting and we want accountability for what's written, particularly when it has the potential to seriously damage .... er .... peoples' lives, and I don't know how a family who were less supported than we were could have coped, because we had a point very, very close to completely breaking.

Jeremy Paxman : Can you tell us finally, what's happening with the search for Madeleine now?

Gerry McCann : I think that the one thing, today, we would like to re-emphasise is the search for Madeleine is very much ongoing. ... Um ... We have .... er .... a lot of activity going on behind the scenes .... er .... We will become public with the activity when feel we need more information in this specific area . But ... er .... Madeleine's fund is ... er ... funding an ongoing search. We're very, very keen to work with the authorities both here and in Portugal, to try at the very, very least to find Madeleine or find who took her.

Jeremy Paxman: Gerry McCann, thank you.

Gerry McCann : Thank you.

by **Tony Bennett** 14.10.10 7:40

Dr Gerald McCann: "We have very clear objectives of what we wanted, and any parents would take the opportunity of trying to get information into the investigation that might help find their daughter. And that's what our clear objectives were..."

COMMENT: Corporate management-speak...not grieving-for-a-lost-daughter-speak...

by The Slave 14.10.10 10:17

Nauseating in the extreme. I could punch Gezza in the face. And I don't mean Paxman.

by aiyoyo 14.10.10 12:07

Tony Bennett wrote:Dr Gerald McCann: "We have very clear objectives of what we wanted, and any parents would take the opportunity of trying to get information into the investigation that might help find their daughter. And that's what our clear objectives were..."

COMMENT: Corporate management-speak...not grieving-for-a-lost-daughter-speak...

It's so far from that truth what he was saying that they were trying to get info into the investigation, rather they were trying to get info out of the investigation.

Definitely spinning the media. I actually enjoyed his discomfort at being put in his place.

by listener 14.10.10 23:44

COMMENT: Corporate management-speak...not grieving-for-a-lost-daughter-speak...[/quote]

That is exactly what hit me when I watched it so long ago! (amoungst other things)

by littlepixie 14.10.10 23:53

I think Gerry uses that speak in every interview. It fools many as they haven't got a clue what he's going on about.

It also makes people suspicious IMO.

by theolivebranch 17.10.10 10:59

Those few photographs shows he is loving it, and then the smugness and the third photograph I just got the thought he was going to be all "now let me tell you something off the record" I know this isn't what it was but his face and his posture just brought that to mind.
I bet GM does a lot of bullshi^^ing, at work, at home, and actually to himself. I bet he is starting to believe it all, if only a little.

by Shibboleth 17.10.10 12:48

He actually shakes his head when he says they will co-operate with the police. Just like Dave Edgar. It must be catching.

by Angelique 20.10.10 15:39

No, this is definitely not a man grieving for his lost child. Who could smirk like that when discussing her supposed "abduction".

The shaking of the head denotes the opposite of what he is actually saying. They had no intention of co-operating with the Police - this is an unconscious action which he probably wasn't even aware of.

Angelique

by tosca 26.10.10 19:19

Smug, self congratulatory and arrogant...jeez how I have grown to despise that face!

Paxman didn't grill him they way he has with other ppl he has interviewed, was he told to treat him with kid glove, personally I would like to interview him wearing boxing gloves. lol!

by Guest 23.05.13 10:01

Giving this topic a kick start in view of the current one called "Paxman".

A reminder also of the interview with Michael Howard - oh to hear Gerry being questioned like that!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwlsd8RAoqI