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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