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Post by AcerBen on May 25, 2007 20:30:44 GMT 1
www.radiotoday.co.uk/news.php?extend.2003A special version of Simple Minds' "Don't You Forget About Me" is going be played on UK radio on Monday morning. What's the betting it will be released as a download and go straight to #1? 
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Post by Chris on May 25, 2007 20:56:39 GMT 1
Bet it does it.
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Post by AcerBen on May 25, 2007 22:08:04 GMT 1
I can't even understand what the purpose of the exercise is. We're powerless to help so why are we not allowed to forget about this story, when the likelihood of finding the poor girl alive and well (let alone in the UK!!) is slim to none.
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Post by Smurfie on May 25, 2007 22:10:24 GMT 1
I can't understand this either. What value does it add to finding her?
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Post by S1m on May 26, 2007 12:13:51 GMT 1
Where is the money actually going? There are hundreds if not thousands of missing children - hopefully this is to aid charities for all of them, not just Maddy.
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Post by Robbie on May 26, 2007 12:33:04 GMT 1
it sounds like a dreadful idea - hopefully it never sees the light of day.
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Post by Toy Toy's Boy on May 26, 2007 12:43:31 GMT 1
Sounds like a really bad cash in on the media attention surrounding her disappearence.
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Post by dandyhighwayman on May 26, 2007 13:03:04 GMT 1
URGH.
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Post by madmurray on May 26, 2007 13:05:32 GMT 1
To be honest, it is all getting a bit tireing. there are thousands of people who go missing every week in the UK. Why are we not hearing about them. The official organisation for the missing people in the UK can well do with the money thats been raised on a weekly basis to help survive. Would we have the situation we have if the parents werent across the road feeding their faces?  ? I hope they find Madeleine safe and well, but what is getting overdone in the Uk cant surely make a significent change considering she is probably in another country. |
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Post by Admin on May 26, 2007 14:02:56 GMT 1
It's all getting a bit much, I understand they want to keep it in the media, but is Madeleine in this country, if not, why do we need to keep hearing about it? What gives that family any more right to have their missing child in the news than any other family?
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Post by Robbie on May 26, 2007 14:08:47 GMT 1
It's all getting a bit much, I understand they want to keep it in the media, but is Madeleine in this country, if not, why do we need to keep hearing about it? What gives that family any more right to have their missing child in the news than any other family? she's white and she's cute... she's also abroad so it keeps the press in holidays. When the two girls from Soham went missing in August 2002 there was also a black kid from Brixton went missing the same day. He was found dead two weeks later - his story managed to make two headlines and that was it. Cute white kids sell papers, black kids don't. |
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Post by DJCanary on May 26, 2007 17:42:17 GMT 1
Would we have the situation we have if the parents werent across the road feeding their faces? ? Well said, just what I think too, this is Sarah Payne all over again, well very simillar |
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Post by Admin on May 26, 2007 18:47:16 GMT 1
Sarah Payne was out playing with siblings wasn't she? But fell out and stomped off on her own, and white van man got her  |
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Post by Admin on May 26, 2007 18:47:43 GMT 1
Oh, and I'll move this to music, more relevant there. ;D
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Post by rubcale on May 26, 2007 18:52:12 GMT 1
Well, just for once I'm in agreement with most of what has been said here!
Dreadful idea.
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Post by mizaria on May 27, 2007 11:47:18 GMT 1
i think the thing is with this, is not that madeline isn't important, it's just that - there's loads of kids that go missing everyday - if you were a parent, would you leave your kids alone in hotel room on their own...EVER!? Why the hell did people start donating such ridiculous amounts of money to help save one girl? Why has this girl 'captured the heart' of the nation - and i don't think it's a racial issue, re: damiola taylor, steven lawrence....although, it was a murder they were investigating...anyway - as i said, i hope madeline/maddy/girl with the stupid irresponsible parents is found safe, alive and well, but i can't help thinking with the money they've had donated in search of her, they oculd use it to actually find lots of other missing children...
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Post by Hullboy on May 27, 2007 12:31:01 GMT 1
Thumbs-down from me as well.
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Post by andrew07 on May 27, 2007 13:08:33 GMT 1
How can people get over-emotional about someone they don't even know? No disrespect to her, but I'm getting bored to death of seeing some of my buddies on myspace and bebo putting up videos appealing for her with songs like Chasing Cars added to them.
But to have a new version of a great song from one of the greatest films of the 1980's been re-done for this cause, I find that atrocious.
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Post by eightiespopkid on May 27, 2007 23:01:14 GMT 1
I think it's a really tacky idea too, but I think the issue is that she isn't a "missing" child per se, she's clearly been kidnapped and is only four years old.
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Post by Admin on May 29, 2007 12:32:59 GMT 1
So did it get played, does anyone know?
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