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...or at least that's what the Guardian online was saying for at least a few minutes!
But then the 'hush,' got hushed somehow and the headline didn't seem quite so conspiratorial!
Observe, gentle readers, the before and after!
The original wording at the start of the article:
The..emm...kind of cleaned up version! Something got hushed, or rather, whooshed!
News of the World made hush payment of £125K to McCanns
Confidential deal towards search fund for Madeleine was part of apology for tabloid's publication of mother Kate's diary extracts
Daniel Boffey
guardian.co.uk, Saturday 17 December 2011 13.48 GMT
Article history
Gerry and Kate McCann Leveson Inquiry
Kate and Gerry McCann giving evidence at the Leveson Inquiry over coverage of their daughter Madeleine's disappearance. News of the World made a confidential payment for publishing Kate's private diaries. Photograph: Pool/Reuters
The News of the World paid £125,000 to the fund supporting the search for Madeleine McCann as part of an apology for publishing Kate McCann's diaries – on condition that the terms of the deal remained secret.
The payment was made after the missing girl's parents expressed their outrage at the story, which Kate McCann said made her feel "mentally raped". All the parties involved in the negotiations over the payment, which was agreed in September 2008, were asked to sign a confidentiality agreement hiding the scale of the newspaper's culpability.
Confidential deal towards search fund for Madeleine was part of apology for tabloid's publication of mother Kate's diary extracts.Kate and Gerry McCann giving evidence at the Leveson Inquiry over coverage of their daughter Madeleine's disappearance. News of the World made a confidential payment for publishing Kate's private diaries. Photograph: Pool/ReutersThe News of the World paid £125,000 to the fund supporting the search for Madeleine McCann as part of an apology for publishing Kate McCann's diaries – on condition that the terms of the deal remained secret.
The payment was made after the missing girl's parents expressed their outrage at the story, which Kate McCann said made her feel "mentally raped". All the parties involved in the negotiations over the payment, which was agreed in September 2008, were asked to sign a confidentiality agreement hiding the scale of the newspaper's culpability.
And I'm now going to shamelessly nick a little verse that 'almostgothic' posted on the Missing Madeleine forum!
Hush, hush, whisper who dares!
Daniel Boffey's been given the scares!
Hush-a-bye baby, on the tree top,
ReplyDeleteWhen the wind blows, the cradle will rock;
When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall,
Down will come baby, cradle and all.