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Oct. 22nd, 2004 09:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spatchToday's Very Special Prize goes to the Boston Herald for displaying, right on its front page, a picture of the Emerson college student who was killed by Boston cops during the post-playoff riots in Kenmore Square. The picture they ran was of the young woman right at the scene, right where she lay, struck down in a pool of blood. I'm sure you agree this is a picture we all needed to see with our morning coffee -- especially the family of the girl, who must be going through so much shit right now I can't even imagine. It's refreshing to see the Herald, which desperately needs a derogatory nickname, pretend to be the arbiter of good taste and moral superiority in the city of Boston when they pull lovely stunts like this.
They're already running angry responses to the picture on their website, which just makes me cynically believe this was a calculated attempt to grab eyes. Which, of course, just makes the whole thing even more fucking disgusting.
I really hate the Herald, so much that I won't even read it if I find a copy laying around on the T. I just don't need the aggravation from the self-righteous blowhards what write for it. This is just the clincher, really.
They're already running angry responses to the picture on their website, which just makes me cynically believe this was a calculated attempt to grab eyes. Which, of course, just makes the whole thing even more fucking disgusting.
I really hate the Herald, so much that I won't even read it if I find a copy laying around on the T. I just don't need the aggravation from the self-righteous blowhards what write for it. This is just the clincher, really.
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Date: 2004-10-23 12:28 pm (UTC)The Herald needs to be shut down, or at least sold right next to the National Enquirer. It has the journalistic integrity of a used piece of t.p.
Mind you, I think it's really fucking ridiculous that a goddamn baseball game results in death and vandalism. I admit that even I've been following the Sox the past week or so (which is about as much as I ever pay attention), but the fucking pennant isn't worth this. Actually, the morbid, cynical side of me wants to see a poll asking if fans would be willing to see game 7 forfeited if it meant the college girl got her life back. And that side of me thinks that there are enough beef-headed people out there that the majority would take WORLD SERIES INSANITY over LIFE.