- So, descriptive language, even if as regards a “man bites dog” story is OK but such as regards everyday assaults on humans is not?
- Attention to local events is appropriate, but two dog-cruelty stories in the same edition on the front page???
We are certainly against cruelty to animals and believe we have a special reserve of goodwill toward dogs. But what are the priorities of the D-A? Why the reservation of such descriptive language “throat slit” to a dog cruelty story? Do they lead with such descriptive language for assaults on humans by humans? On occasion they may have but not usually. If the grotesqueness is news then why the oh-so-refined reticence toward abortion procedures. In surgical abortion “slitting” is a matter of course. Now slitting a dogs throat IS shocking, but why is abortion and what it entails not? We are waiting for the report in the D-A with the lead: “Planned Parenthood vivisects late-term babies for profit.”
*but then the QC Times has been lining the kennel for a long time.
