Sanity...at last: Madeleine McCann

It is not healthy, proportionate or even helpful. Indeed, the media's obsessive coverage is now verging on the scary. We may not have seen coverage and responses like this since the week following the death of Diana in 1997.

The Guardian website has buried a much needed article by Simon Jenkins, but here it is:

"The media coverage of the missing McCann child has largely escaped censure. This is because it concerns an ongoing tragedy and because the grief of those directly involved is so real. Neither justifies freedom from comment. The coverage has been absurdly over the top and cannot have served the interests of the family, or the eventual cause of justice."

The British media does not do responsibility. It does stories