How dare the BBC........

be arrogant enough to suggest that the investigation into the missing child Madeleine is not being dealt with by the Portugese Authorities as well as it would by the Authorities in this Country?
The situation is dreadful and I hope with all my heart that they find the little girl alive and well. However, having just watched in disbelief a BBC journalist confront a Portugese Police officer and suggest that he was basically incompetent makes my blood boil.
People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.

reminds me of the monkey dust press conference sketch!

I don't know if they've had a change in editor in the last 6 months, but I've noticed that the BBC News, particulary the telly, seems to be going a bit more 'lowest denominator'.

Eg, at the time of the Newmarket murders they had a report where they were snooping around the back of a suspect's house that was clearly supposed to be off limits.

Hardly the professional journalism I'd expect of the BBC.

I totally agree with the points above, but the BBC are not far wrong with the assessment. It has also been pointed out on Sky news.
It's simply because the local portugese police are not used to dealing with this sort of thing.
I dearly hope that they do find Madeleine safe and well soon.

snot just the Beeb, though, is it?

Journalists- don't you just love'em! Always looking for an angle.

I was thinking just that! On radio 4 this morning they were grilling a police officer. The question that stuck in my mind was "why didn't you fully alert the border police and close your borders?". The poor Portugese guy was like "it was 10 in the evening, they were only an hours drive from the border, and due to the schengen agreement there are virtually no border guards or checkpoints anymore". How were they supposed to do that?! Lets be realistic here; its a tragic event, but there is NO sense in pointing fingers at the Portugese police.

Interesting thing: I interviewed Maddy's uncle for Tonight with Trev the other day and he pointed out that IF the portuguese authorities have done anything wrong, shouldn't we wait until AFTER the investigation to criticise? Let them get on with the job in hand rather than make them spend time answering stupid questions about the job.

To me, it seems that most of the media are ****ed of with the police because they aren't getting the same access to information that they get from our police.

And yes, there is a good chance that the BBC is becoming more lowest common denominator: all the major networks have had a change of top boss recently, and channels all lose their way for a bit shortly after that.

People are always looking for someone to blame. If something goes wrong or doesn't turn out quite right, then someone else must be responsible and hauled over the coals for it. The more sensational, the better.

I will probably be shot down in flames for this, however I feel a lot of the blame for this has to lie with the parents. I am NOT saying that they deserved it etc. However what the f**k were they doing leaving 3 young kids in a locked room when they f**ked off for a meal??

By the looks of it although the restaurant is 50yds as the crow flies, you still have to leave the compound and cross a road!!

I have a 7yr old and there is no way ever I would consider leaving her on her own a sleep and swaned of for a meal no mater if it was across the road at my neighbours (10meters).

I do think that the media try to pick on someone though, maybe they should concentrate on the parents for doing something so stupid? Even if she had not been taken, what if there had been a fire?? 3 kids dead cos their stupid parents locked them in a room.

Now it is a crying shame I hope they catch the pervert who done it and torture him/her to death, no ifs no buts. Pedos deserve to die in the most horrendous way ever, and if anyone on here tries to defend them or say, no lets think of them and why they done it then they deserve to have the sh8t kicked out of them as well!!! If something ever happened to my little girl like that and the offender was caught, I really would drag their painfull death out for as long as possible making sure the last thing they saw and heard before I plucked out their eyes and perforated their eardrums was my little girls image and voice.

Rant over

It is bad form to slag off another man's country. Especially a no nothing journalist.

It has an open border with Spain and doesn't have CCTV big brother camera all over the place.