November 28, 2003
Whose Journalists are Nastier: Britain or the USA?
Kevin Drum at Calpundit is uncharacteristically upset about the Independent's headline for their story on Bush's hit-and-run visit to Baghdad yesterday: The Turkey Has Landed.
But honestly, writes Kevin, what were they thinking? As the cover of Counterpunch or some Bay Area alt weekly, sure. But on the front page of an allegedly serious broadsheet?
You ain't seen nothin' yet. Newsday, Long Island's daily tabloid, puts the Independent to shame for partisan headlining:
("AWOL" is the sobriquet that Skippy the Bush Kangaroo is promoting for our commander-in-thief, as a reminder of Bush's desertion from his National Guard unit.)
Who would have thunk that a sober paper like Newsday would out-nasty a feisty British political paper?
(Thanks to Skippy for the Newsday headline)
Posted by abostick at November 28, 2003 05:12 PMWhose
Posted by: D. at December 1, 2003 07:26 PMDamn. There were two angle-bracketed "pedants" which did not show up. Sorry.
Posted by: D. at December 1, 2003 07:29 PMCongratulations. Usually it is Debbie who tells me about my grammar errors. You beat her to the punch.
Because Movable Type allows HTML formatting in comments, in order for something to look like <this>, you must type it like <this>.
Posted by: Alan Bostick at December 2, 2003 08:50 AM
