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 Post subject: Re: The Mail's obsession with images of death
PostPosted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 11:54 pm 
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Mexican drug gang beheads ANOTHER blogger and dumps body and severed head in street with bloody warning note


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1dNS1D2Sr

I eagerly clicked looking for beheading pics, but it was all part of a tease.

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 Post subject: Re: The Mail's obsession with images of death
PostPosted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 12:10 am 
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Still pics of 3 dead people... one quite graphic.


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 Post subject: Re: The Mail's obsession with images of death
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Still pics of 3 dead people... one quite graphic.


Sadly , not sufficient for a D M readers fix of death.

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 Post subject: Re: The Mail's obsession with images of death
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'Horrific' real footage of cars slamming into pedestrians shown on state website in shocking traffic safety campaign

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... paign.html

And of course, the Mail has kindly published lots of pictures to demonstrate just how "horrific" the footage is.

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 Post subject: Re: The Mail's obsession with images of death
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I'm in two minds on this one. I think there is a place for shock tactics when campaigning about road safety. I have been present twice when a pedestrain was killed and am very cautious when crossing the road, I think largely as a result of this. I have associates who scare me witless stepping off the kerb without looking once or laughing at my preference to use traffic lights and not just dart across when there is a break in traffic.

But I suppose one has to question if rehashing a sensible campaign is newsworthy or just a bit of cheap sensationalism.


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 Post subject: Re: The Mail's obsession with images of death
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4 photos of a dead 15 year old boy.....

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2063874/Mohammed-Mulla-Eissa-murder-Boy-15-refused-join-march-Syrias-President-Assad.html


They really are beyond contempt


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 Post subject: Re: The Mail's obsession with images of death
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The Daily Fail now reduced to putting Live Leak clips of animal torture and death on its dreadful site:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... video.html

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 Post subject: Re: The Mail's obsession with images of death
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I'm not going anywhere near that link, but what in the name of all that is holy, are they thinking about running pictures with that story? If the BBC showed something like that on a news report, there'd be a 72-page pullout demanding that it should be sold off to Simon Cowell, and the DG locked in the Tower.

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 Post subject: Re: The Mail's obsession with images of death
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Facing their last moments with a smile: The Chinese women about to be executed for drug smuggling

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1fcZ0nrzH

What a fucking diabolical and disgusting 'newspaper'.
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 Post subject: Re: The Mail's obsession with images of death
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The 'story' about the executions is bizarre indeed and quite a few years old. I really can't see what they're getting at.

The animal ones - Whoever thinks this merits filming as entertainment has some unhealthy interests. In itself, as a document of a snake eating a small nutritous mammal, I find nothing offensive in it. That's how nature is, red in tooth and claw, etc. But to film it for shits and giggles and for a newspaper to link to it, well, I don't get that. Do you think the Mail are just going in for outright provision of examples of sadism? I think they'd find a modest but eager market.

The kid in Syria. The story is newsworthy, the photos are gratuitous.


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 Post subject: Re: The Mail's obsession with images of death
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Facing their last moments with a smile: The Chinese women about to be executed for drug smuggling

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1fcZ0nrzH

What a fucking diabolical and disgusting 'newspaper'.
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Some of the comments in that story are astonishingly sick. How can people be so heartless. Yes they did wrong and punishment was due, but to revel in the fact that these people were shot in the back of the head after being paraded before the public like animals is depraved.


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 Post subject: Re: The Mail's obsession with images of death
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sabre_chilli wrote:
but to revel in the fact that these people were shot in the back of the head after being paraded before the public like animals is depraved.

I think you could sell out every seat in Wmebley Stadium several times over, if we did that in the UK. Many people don't want justice, or not only justice, many also want revenge and the more sadistic the better.


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 Post subject: Re: The Mail's obsession with images of death
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Nature at its most savage: The shocking pictures that prove polar bears are cannibals - and will even eat bear cubs

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... -cubs.html

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 Post subject: Re: The Mail's obsession with images of death
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I don't see what the problem is here, other than this is not newsworthy. You actually object to animals displaying their normal behaviour? Surely this is merely a bit of sensationalism geared at cashing in on the Attenborough vibe?

But an image of death? I'm not so sure. It's a polar bear being a polar bear. I think this is quite interesting and far from unique. Lions do it, various types of bears do it and no doubt people have done it in the not so distant past. Just look at the gap in professed attitudes to step-children and how they are often treated. Male mammals often get rid off offspring that they have not sired and in a harsh environment it is suicidal to turn down an easy meal. I would hope that humans would not do this but the story is about polar bears following their nature. I don't think it is an obsession with death, just an interest in a salient theme.


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 Post subject: Re: The Mail's obsession with images of death
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Gourami wrote:
I don't see what the problem is here, other than this is not newsworthy. You actually object to animals displaying their normal behaviour?

No. All i've done is post an article demonstrating the Mail's obsession with "shocking" images of death. The headline of "Nature at its most savage: The shocking pictures that proves bears shit in woods - and will even wipe their arses on trees" doesn't have quite the same bite of morbid curiosity the Mail usually pushes.

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