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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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.

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:


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

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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Don't look anything like crosshairs, do they?

Random bit of abstract art.

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.

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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#rightwingpoliticalcorrectness - for when some "Tell it like it is" bullshitter plays the political correctness card, often without irony!

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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They probably think that makes you a coward.

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

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Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets. Nye Bevan

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

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