News of Mccann abduction...will sky ever get it right ? One report is two Italian men being arrested in cadiz?

• for attempting to exhort money from the family ...another is an Italian man and Portuguese woman being arrested for abduction...another is an Italian man being arrested in connection with a pedophile ring from France ...which may or may not have connections with the Madeleine case..Why oh why cant sky get the facts right before broadcasting this boring repetitive and speculative information

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  Wacky, in spite of all the talk of a 'media campaign', it's obvious there isn't a single working journalist in either Portugal or Spain belonging to BBC, ITN or Sky News. It's obvious too they don't even have stringers. Sky is passing off Gaynor Jesus - who first came to light when Murat was lifted and who is a translator - as a 'Sky reporter'. None of them have cameras out there. Martin Brunt on the BBC was interviewed 'live' last night from, er, 'Central London' (by the looks of it from his own sitting room), where he was busy scanning the internet like the rest of us and talking darkly about his 'Italian sources' - which were Italian websites, not the Minister for Justice in Rome which is what he was trying to imply. It's a disgrace. The arrests were made at dawn yesterday. Twelve hours later, when the news appears on the El Pais website, the Mighty British News Machine swings into action with absolute uninformed garbage and with no-one on site to give even the beginnings of a context. It was almost as appalling a performance as the Murat Raid, which had been going on for 12 hours while Brunt and Hill and Wood were listening to the gibberish of the McCann press conference and thought the dozens of cars yards away from them was some sort of traffic snarl-up caused by locals. So, where is the McCann Media Campaign? Where is the Madeleine News? Nowhere. And it's been like this since at least The Nasty Berlin Question. They know there is no chance of Madeleine wandering back into the apartment. Even if it hadn't already been sold.