Thursday, February 15, 2018

Daily Mail covers America

As you know an ex-student of a Florida school returned with smoke grenades to set off alarms and draw students into the halls and then mow them down as they fled resulting in seventeen deaths and over fifty injuries. Daily Mail produces an impressively thorough writeup that covers every aspect imaginable with tons of photographs and videos.

This is their bread and butter. They live for this type of coverage. It's where they excel.

Then you finish the article and finish the comment section that follows and scrolling down beneath all that Daily Mail offers a list of their  top stories, each with their own thumbnail photograph and a short write-up.

We may as well be in England. We notice two things they will never ever ever get straight. Like American media, they have their European point of view that allows nothing else, and what they lack in depth and in range, they make up with abundance. Their attitude is, if they can flood their readers with a single pinched perspective then they will finally convince them to righteous politically liberal thinking.

As for Trump, they're capable of covering salacious items of White House intrigue only. Any of Trump's accomplishments are not within their reporter's awareness. Including his judicial picks, his tax reform, his boost to American economy, his restructuring trade deals, his reviewing and rewriting important treaties, his Executive Orders, are all unreported. Only the crap that people around him have done and the things that they say about him sufficiently negative to rate items of interest to Daily Mail journalists and readers.

While their coverage on big stories is impressive, just visiting the site is a major annoyance. It's all sex and murder and who did and said what to whom, and royalty.

I'm picking and choosing the items presented on two topics. American gun laws, and American Republican president. Where we see they're politically liberal, fully against American gun ownership, and always fully 100% against any Republican administration.

The very weird thing about this shooting incident is that every single student knew immediately who the perpetrator is. His psychology was well known to everyone there. And like sheep to slaughter they flocked to their no-gun zone unprotected. And yet, the obvious sensible solution for American and European liberals is to eliminate American second amended Constitutional right while for the most part reserving that right for themselves. Kim Kardashian, really? That's who we look to for political opinion?

* PICTURED: Beloved track coach and teenage girl are named among the 17 tragic victims of Florida high school massacre as many more fight for...

* Why was it allowed to happen? Outcry as it's revealed gunman was BANNED from carrying a schoolbag before his expulsion and had been flagged...

* 'Prayers won't do this. Congress, please do your job': Kim Kardashian leads celebs on Twitter demanding action after yet another gun...

* Shocking Instagram posts of 'troubled' school shooter Nikolas Cruz reveal his twisted obsession for guns, violence and hurting animals - as...

* Moment Florida school shooter finally surrenders to cops after bloody rampage that killed 17 before being booked at police headquarters in a...

* 'A child of God is dead!': Former CIA official breaks down in tears while discussing Florida school shooting with CNN's Wolf Blitzer

* We can't let this go on. No more of our children can die': Furious mother of Florida victim breaks down as she laments yet another school...

* 'Our school's getting shot up, I'm scared': How terrified students sent video, texts and pictures while they huddled under their desks...

* 'How long will we accept weapons of war being used to slaughter our children?' Outrage as it's revealed that the AR-15 is yet AGAIN a mass...

* 'No child, teacher or anyone else should ever feel unsafe in an American school': Trump offers prayers and condolences to victims of mass...

** 'She's sharp': Finally Big Brother's Omarosa has something positive to say about the White House as she reveals what it was like working for...

** I'm an Indian, honest! Elizabeth Warren makes surprise appearance at Native American conference to slam Trump for calling her Pocahontas and...

** 'To my one and only': Michelle Obama dedicates a romantic Valentine's Day playlist to Barack - as former president gushes that his wife...

* Teen 'boasted to friends he hoped to kill up to 150 people in elementary school massacre days before attack in which he killed one boy...

** EXCLUSIVE: Doomed White House romance is over! Hope Hicks and disgraced Rob Porter have SPLIT, say friends, after wife-beating scandal that...

** EXCLUSIVE: Letter to FBI reveals Rob Porter’s friend tried to smear battered ex-wife claiming she tried to POISON Porter’s ex-girlfriend

** 'How in the hell was still he employed?' Republican Trey Gowdy who probed Benghazi wants answers on Rob Porter scandal

** Trump STILL won't publicly declare support for John Kelly – but insists he is so 'totally opposed to domestic violence' that 'it wouldn't...

** 'There is nothing worse in the world than domestic abuse': Eric Trump says 'the lowest of the low' abuse women following confusing comments...

** I can tell all now says Stormy Daniels after Trump's lawyer admitted $130,000 hush money payment to porn star over sex claims

** Trump's screaming fit at size of his inauguration crowd is revealed as Reince Priebus tells how he ordered proof it was bigger than Obama's

** Third Trump aide resigns after his security clearance was denied over a few marijuana joints – but an Obama deputy chief of staff was...

** Trump's military parade could cost $30 MILLION admits White House budget boss - who says they've not put aside a cent for show of power

** Feeling the love? Melania Trump dons a $3,000 red coat to decorate cookies and exchange cards with sick children, as Twitter calls her out...

** White House REFUSES to discuss immigration status of Melania’s parents saying question over whether they are here from 'chain migration' was...

4 comments:

edutcher said...

All that may well be true, but I remember you got more solid coverage of the '16 election out of the Mail than any American media.

YMMV

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

I saw a photograph taken of two grieving women, one with ceremonial ashes on her forehead. My first thought was something like, "Oh my God, how horrible!" And then my next thought was, "WHO THE FUCK IS THAT FUCKING ASSHOLE WHO STOOD THERE SNAPPING AWAY AT HIS CAMERA IN THE MIDST OF ALL THAT SUFFERING!!!"

My next thought was something like, "Well, I guess people want to know about this sort of thing and someone has to take photos of suffering or else people won't get what they want."

And then there were a bunch of other thoughts and eventually I ended up on, "Gee, how come I don't hate the guys who butcher the beef cattle?"

edutcher said...

Not "ceremonial".

Yesterday was Ash Wednesday.

rhhardin said...

Listening to Radio Japan every day, there are hangups that get hammered and make no sense to Americans.

1. Helicopter safety, particularly US troops flying over schools. They are very angry about this all the time. This used to be an Osprey only matter, and involved the thing being anywhere in Japan. It's been specialized recently to all US helicopters and schools.

2. US forces based anywhere where there are Japanese people living, because of noise and danger.

3. Nuclear bomb victims, the casualty list is updated every year to include the years' fatalities. These people are in their 90s.

4. US forces allowed off the base, which comes up whenever a US force commits a crime.

It plays well in local elections but this is Radio Japan international service.

Nevertheless it's nice because their hangups aren't the American hangups.

Check it once a day

http://www.nhk.or.jp/rj/podcast/rss/english.xml

10 or 15 minute newscast, updated 8pm Japan time.