Media Tabloids Cash In On Missing Maddie Mccann
And yet, so much about the case is still misunderstood, starting with her name. In fact, no one in her family ever called her Maddie; the nickname was bestowed by space-conscious headline writers and, as a result, adopted by the public at large. Her parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, are not suspects, despite feverish tabloid speculation last fall when the Portuguese police labeled them “arguidos.” The legal term was widely mistranslated: it means that the McCanns were “persons of interest” in a police investigation, not necessarily under suspicion for killing their daughter....