- Tue Nov 04, 2014 6:44 am
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(Couldn't find a thread for the Freemail Lite so thought I'd start one)
I just want to have a rant about yesterday's Metro front page headline "Sex, drugs and double murder" which imho was totally inappropriate for the story it was above, which was about a British banker who has been accused of murdering two Asian prostitutes in Hong Kong.
The headline seems way too jaunty for such a grim story - since when do papers pun about murders? It makes it sound like it's not a serious story, just a bit of fun. He's a millionaire so it's like, let's put our faces against the window and have a look in at his glamorous, hedonistic lifestyle. The victims are only foreign, they're only prostitues, who cares if they're dead, as long as it gives us a chance to pun and titillate? If it were the other way round or closer to home (i.e. an Asian murders two Britons), I doubt they'd report it the same way... more like "Immigrant bastard murders our girls!"
I just want to have a rant about yesterday's Metro front page headline "Sex, drugs and double murder" which imho was totally inappropriate for the story it was above, which was about a British banker who has been accused of murdering two Asian prostitutes in Hong Kong.
The headline seems way too jaunty for such a grim story - since when do papers pun about murders? It makes it sound like it's not a serious story, just a bit of fun. He's a millionaire so it's like, let's put our faces against the window and have a look in at his glamorous, hedonistic lifestyle. The victims are only foreign, they're only prostitues, who cares if they're dead, as long as it gives us a chance to pun and titillate? If it were the other way round or closer to home (i.e. an Asian murders two Britons), I doubt they'd report it the same way... more like "Immigrant bastard murders our girls!"
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