That's How It Happened

"How could two people under constant media scrutiny possibly have carried out and hidden their daughter's body without being seen? If they really had concealed a corpse in their car, wouldn't the smell have been obvious? How could two people unfamiliar with the local landscape have found an eventual hiding place that would still, months later, remain undiscovered? Is it plausible to imagine that, in the moments after suffering the trauma of a dead child, two people could have constructed such an elaborate cover-up plan, executed it coolly and remained steady ever since? Could anybody maintain this front, a global lie, for so long without cracking?"

Any reticence about the excessive coverage of Madeleine McCann has been abandoned by the Guardian with today's Comment from Jonathan Freedland describing it as the human interest story of the decade. The Comment is scattered with question marks as he piles into the speculative clusterf*ck, which of course grants him "complete blogger immunity" from any accusations of hypocrisy. As the headline puts it we're "in real danger of losing our common decency". It should be obvious that 90% of the UK media have already lost their common decency, but the Maddie story now seems to be dragging the Guardian over the edge too.