Gerry McCann; father of the missing girl Madeline McCann; faced MPs today and accused the media 'specially the press' of miss-leading general information about Madeline's case. Mr. McCann also accused the press of focusing their articles too much on the private lives of those close to Madeline - specially Mr and Mrs McCann - instead of giving the public information about the missing girl, the BBC News Website and BBC News Channel have reported today.
Mr. McCann described some of the actions of the press as not helpful at all.
The BBC News Website reported: "Mr McCann told the MPs: Although elements of the media coverage have undoubtedly been helpful in the ongoing search for Madeline, out family have been the focus of some of the most sensationalist, untruthful, irresponsible and damaging reporting in the history of the press."
Madeline McCann disappeared while on holiday with her parents in Praia da Luz, Portugal, on night of the 3rd of May 2007 while her parents went for dinner and left her (Madeline) in the hotel alone.
The investigation against her parents - Madeline's parents were accused of murdering Madeline by the Portuguese police - was closed just before Mr and Mrs McCann headed to their home in Leicestershire, England in September 2007.
However Mr. McCann wasn't the only one to give accusations against the press. Max Mosley, another victim of the destructive articles of the tabloid press referred to the stories that the press wrote about him as (the BBC News Channel reported) if you went to your home and found your front door opened and your things stolen. Only worse because you can get your things back but your "dignity" can never be recovered. Mr. Mosley; the leader of the FIA (Federation Internationale de L'Automobile) was secretly filmed by the News of the World (British Sunday Newspaper) having - what was called by the press - a Nazi orgy with five prostitutes who were all wearing Nazi uniforms while Mr. Mosley wore a concentration camp prisoner's uniform. The tabloid press accused Mr. Mosley of being a nazi because of the whole orgy scene.
It also brought up that Mosley's father was involved in nazi movements during the Second World War.
It is not a secret that the tabloid press would do anything against anyone just to get a story that sells newspapers. Tabloids such as the Sun, the Daily Star, the Daily Mirror and many others do not worry about the damaging the private lives of those who the tabloids target.
I as a journalism student and as a blogger disagree with the tabloid press because it does not educate nor does it inform the public of the important issues they're supposed to know. All the tabloid press does is provide the public with poisonous stories that only damage the private lives of many important people and celebrities.
I believe private lives - even the private lives of celebrities - should never be shown to the public and that the authorities should make harder rules for those newspapers that focused their pages to disrespect people.
And although both the McCann family and Mr. Mosley were given apologies and a large amount of money in compensation by those newspapers that exploded their images, no amount of money nor apologies can take back the embarrassing situations that these press-victims went through.
The picture of Madeline McCann was taken from http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ and the picture of Max Mosley was taken from http://www.topnews.in/
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Madeline McCann's profile (Wikipedia):
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Max Mosley's profile (Wikipedia):
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