The McCanns: guilty or not guilty? If ever we needed proof that our culture has blurred the lines between reality and reality TV, this is it.



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The Australian media, aided and abetted by a corrupt Northern Territory police force, painted Mrs Chamberlain as a heartless killer. In the end, common sense went out the window as people up and down the country accepted the story they were fed by the police and the press.

Writing recently about the McCann case for a British newspaper, Mrs Chamberlain said: 'It is as if we have run over the power of allotted for the "show" and viewers are saying, "Where is the answer?"

'We are looking at it as if it were reality TV. Yet these people have to live their lives moment by painful moment. When the public atmosphere is like this, questions of justice or truce start to take second place.'

'The huge shame of what's happening now is that if the police blame the parents, the public will stop looking for [Madeleine].'

'The emptiness [of losing a child] never diminishes. Azaria would be 27 now. I wonder ... what woman she might have become. I pray that Kate and Gerry McCann might still be spared this sadness.'

So should we all. CR

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