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 Post subject: How to trivialise a serious story
PostPosted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 5:23 pm 
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1345413/Arizona-shooting-Gabrielle-Giffords-fights-life-judge-schoolgirl-dead.html

So an American congresswoman is shot and six people are killed in the attack and the Daily Mail editor decises that the most important bit of the story is that the congress woman is a cousin of Gywneth Paltrow really tells you every thing you need to know about the DM's treatment of international news.

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 Post subject: Re: How to trivialise a serious story
PostPosted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 5:30 pm 
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Before I clicked the thread, this was going to be my example. On the Main Page, under World News on the right-hand side it still lists her as "politician wife of astronaut". Can't believe they changed it to the more horrific headline in your post.


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Any bets on a two-page spread detailing how distressed Suri Cruise was by the coverage, and how stylist she looks in black?

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Piss poor reportage. Wouldn't mind a side bet that heads are being scratched as to how to slip in a Hitler pic.

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I knew this would be about that as well.

The coverage isn't that bad, by Mail standards.

Whoever wrote this, right at the end of the story, would probably rather be a proper journalist on a proper paper:
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Just hours after Giffords voted in favour of the healthcare bill – which introduced subsidies to enable Americans to buy private health insurance but stopped far short of the universal plan advocated by Left-wing Democrats – the door of her Tucson office was peppered with shotgun pellets.


I see the story has found space for all sorts of pics, but not this one from Sarah Palin's Action Committee's website:

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Glad to see that someone in the comments pointed out that describing her as 'pro-abortion' is an odd way of saying she is 'pro-choice'

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A Palin aide, Rebecca Mansour, speaking on the Tammy Bruce radio talkshow, denied the symbol represented crosshairs. "We never ever, ever intended it to be gun sights," Mansour said.


Don't look anything like crosshairs, do they?

Random bit of abstract art.


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The mention of Gywneth Paltrow, gets more hits, to keep the advertisers happy.

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Someone on the Guardian has found a smoking gun that shows Democrats do the same!

Or rather a smoking target.

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Tubby Isaacs wrote:
Someone on the Guardian has found a smoking gun that shows Democrats do the same!

Or rather a smoking target.

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I suppose this depends on wherever you reckon that the target symbol in the above image holds the same moral value as that for a cross-hair. I'd say it doesn't. The Democrats "target" is used for archery for sporting purposes, and not normally used for shooting from guns. A cross-hair leaves much less to the imagination. Still in hindsight, it doesn't leaves the Democrats with clean hands.

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That just shows how words like 'target' and associated imagery are used - i.e. commonly.

What's more troubling than either picture is the persistent rhetoric of struggle, enemies, and downright fallacies that seem to come over, although we're obviously not immersed in it.

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Glad to see that someone in the comments pointed out that describing her as 'pro-abortion' is an odd way of saying she is 'pro-choice'


It is a common trick of the American right.I am pro choice but personally anti abortion, that particular stance has caused heads to implode!

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They probably think that makes you a coward.


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They probably think that makes you a coward.


Probably, afer all it is cowardly to think for yourself rather than swallow any old bilge :mrgreen:

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satnav wrote:
Glad to see that someone in the comments pointed out that describing her as 'pro-abortion' is an odd way of saying she is 'pro-choice'


It is a common trick of the American right.I am pro choice but personally anti abortion, that particular stance has caused heads to implode!


I'm with that position, too, pragmatically. I don't see it as difficult to comprehend.

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