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...Staff writer Lois E. Beckett can be reached at lbeckett@fas.harvard.edu...
...stories falsely suggesting their possible involvement in Madeleine's disappearance began appearing. Media experts here say the Express papers were the worst offenders, printing a steady - and in circulation terms lucrative - flow of arch but unsubstantiated innuendo. "There was a drip, drip, drip of negative splash headlines," says Charlie Beckett, a media expert at the London School of Economics. "Syringe that 'Knocked Out Maddie' Found," claimed one ludicrous Star headline, while the Express screamed: "Find the Body or McCanns Will Escape." Some stories in those papers alleged the McCanns might have sold Madeleine because of financial woes, while others among...
...Much of what the British papers printed were allegations that first surfaced in Portuguese newspapers, which were having a field day of their own. But that is "absolutely not" a defense in British libel law, says Michael Smyth, a partner at international law firm Clifford Chance. Adds Beckett: "There's a notion that if you repeat a lie from a foreign newspaper it's somehow okay. But most media lawyers will tell you it's still a bloody...
...Staff writer Lois E. Beckett can be reached at lbeckett@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Lois E. Beckett can be reached at lbeckett@fas.harvard.edu...