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...readers' biases. The press here - from populist tabloids to serious-minded dailies - has largely been unswerving in its support of the McCanns. "Madeleine: Her Mother is Innocent," shouted Wednesday's Daily Express. "Torture," declared Sunday's The People over a picture of Kate McCann, Madeleine's mother. And Chris Roycroft-Davis, a media consultant and Express commentator, thinks that's how it should be. "The media have been very, very sympathetic toward the McCanns, quite rightly so," he said on a Sunday morning BBC Radio 2 program...
...couple, including Jones's Daily Mail colleague, Allison Pearson. "I refuse to believe they are guilty unless overwhelming evidence is uncovered," she wrote. Of course, she's basically saying they're innocent until proven guilty - hardly a radical thought, since it's the bedrock of Western jurisprudence. Roycroft-Davis, however, has apparently solved the case. He said on Radio 2: "These people are completely innocent. There's no evidence that I've read that shows that they've got any part whatsoever in Madeleine's disappearance...
...defends its product: "Anybody's croissant is made up of about one-fourth butter," says Product Standards Manager Carol Johnson. In general, industry officials claim that they offer Americans a broad selection of foods, including lowfat, low-cholesterol varieties for those who want them. Kraft, Inc., Spokesman David Roycroft points out that the dairy industry has taken pains to increase the number of products from which the butterfat has been removed. Kraft's Golden Image imitation cheeses and Light n' Lively yogurt and cottage cheese were, he says, "developed in response to a perceived demand by consumers...
...grand old man of the Games will be Australian Bill Roycroft, 61, an equestrian appearing in his fifth Olympics. A wiry, gray-haired farmer from the sheep country of southern Australia, Roycroft is best remembered for his performance at the 1960 Rome Olympics. After having to be hoisted onto his horse by teammates because he had broken or dislocated his arm, shoulder and collarbone in a fall during an earlier, cross-country event, Roycroft clinched the gold medal for his team with a faultless show of jumping...
...TREVOR ROYCROFT Mansfield, Ohio...