Monday, April 28, 2008

Sun commemorates the disappearance of Maddy

The Sun marks the first anniversary of the disapperanace of Madeleine McCann with the three part,I hesitate to say, commemorative issue

Todays coverage covers 12 pages including a day by day chronology of the events of the past year.

Yesterday writing in the Sunday Telegraph,Lionel Shriver wrote that

Like any novelist, I'm a sucker for a good story. Yet fiction and non-fiction are shelved in separate sections of a bookshop for good reason. However imaginative its variations, fiction conforms to amazingly strict narrative criteria.


And for the writer the journalist profession has treated this tragedy rather like a work of fiction adding

In the case of Madeleine McCann, the British media has frequently elevated the requirements of fiction over the truth. As a consequence, a grieving couple's loss of their daughter has been made even more agonising than it had to be. Indeed, this last year's over-the-top Maddy-mongering has to go down as one of British journalism's most shameful instances of cheap, cavalier opportunism - of its greater commitment to a "good story" over the accurate one.

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