David Aaronovitch - Times Online - WBLG: A very modern melodrama and our shrine to Madeleine

One of many attempts to interpret the phenomena that have accompanied the sad disappearance of Madeleine McCann. While its focus is the media and the way the media amplifies events and the subsequent reaction of the public the story contains much about childhood and risk and how it is thought of in contemporary society. David Aaronovitch - Times Online - WBLG: A very modern melodrama and our shrine to Madeleine