Her parents, Gerry and Kate, were treated like a commodity as an "insatiable" hunt for headlines led to the sacrifice not only of the search for the truth but of their "dignity, privacy and well-being", he said.
Mr McCann said: "I would have liked to have seen a properly independent regulation of the press, whereas I think he has given the press another opportunity of self-regulation," he told the BBC Radio 4 Today.
Extraordinary statement...!
Thoughts -
1. have the McCanns not heard of the internet?
The genie is out of the bottle. Regulation of the press is totally pointless in the 21st century, a futile exercise redolent of censorship and the antics of the Nazis, the Communist Chinese, Stalin's Russia, and countless other corrupt regimes.
The information is out there on the internet, available to anyone who has a smart phone. Too late Gerry, and just another reflection of your audacious attempts to steer and control the media and the flow of information to the public.
You tried to censor Amaral's book, again pointless, did you not realise it has been available on the internet for years?
2. People have carp written about them all the time on facebook (apparently, I don't use it). Why should those written about in the print media have any more protections than those on social media?
3.Most people don't do things that get them written about in the news or in books, in the first place.
MOO
