Wednesday 12 September 2007

A Grimly Compelling Story

Over on the Guardian's blog Jonathan Freedland has written an intelligent and balanced article on the Madeline McCann case.

"Even to conceive of them as the suspected killers of the daughter whose loss they have been grieving is to experience cognitive dissonance.

Which is why people don't know how to react. Suddenly we have to hold two entirely contradictory thoughts in our head at the same time."

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