The Sun Also Sucks
I've been a long-time detractor of the Toronto Sun "paper", ever since I knew a guy who worked for them. Okay, sure, he was an ex-boyfriend, but that's not where the enmity arises, I swear.
It's really the lack of any real journalistic credibility from a paper that features a picture of a new desperate buttafaced mid-thirties or barely legal woman every day between their news stories. There's also all of the clearly biased right-wing reporting. My boyfriend insists that they have excellent sports reporting, and I'm prepared to believe him on that point, that very well may be. But I still maintain that it is not now, nor has it ever been, a "news"paper. And I have an almost physical dislike for it.
Mostly, it's the headlines. The headlines are what kill me. They are so transparently grasping for attention there are times when the huge headline and the huge picture fight outright. And you can just see the editor struggling with himself... Gang of toughs raped and physically assaulted another woman - fear mongering is front page stuff... Bluejays won another game against the New York Yankees - sports victory for home town also front page stuff... What to do, what to do... End result: Top headline, "Two Sought for series of Sexual Assaults", and a picture of two Blue Jays high-fiving with a caption beside it saying, "They Did it Again!"
Oh, how I wish I was making that up.
But today, today's was special. You should have seen it. (It would have been great if I could have figured out how my cellphone can send pictures to my computer, but you people don't have five months to wait around for me to sort it out.)
You know how there's a worldwide furor over the newest development in the 10-year-old JonBenet Ramsey case? And you know how they transported the guy who claims to have done it from Asia? And you know that there's this really buzz-a-riffic campy movie out right now starring Samuel L. Jackson? Are you there already? No? Well, here was today's exciting headline with accompanying creepy photograph:
"Snake on a Plane"
I have nothing further, your Honour.
It's really the lack of any real journalistic credibility from a paper that features a picture of a new desperate buttafaced mid-thirties or barely legal woman every day between their news stories. There's also all of the clearly biased right-wing reporting. My boyfriend insists that they have excellent sports reporting, and I'm prepared to believe him on that point, that very well may be. But I still maintain that it is not now, nor has it ever been, a "news"paper. And I have an almost physical dislike for it.
Mostly, it's the headlines. The headlines are what kill me. They are so transparently grasping for attention there are times when the huge headline and the huge picture fight outright. And you can just see the editor struggling with himself... Gang of toughs raped and physically assaulted another woman - fear mongering is front page stuff... Bluejays won another game against the New York Yankees - sports victory for home town also front page stuff... What to do, what to do... End result: Top headline, "Two Sought for series of Sexual Assaults", and a picture of two Blue Jays high-fiving with a caption beside it saying, "They Did it Again!"
Oh, how I wish I was making that up.
But today, today's was special. You should have seen it. (It would have been great if I could have figured out how my cellphone can send pictures to my computer, but you people don't have five months to wait around for me to sort it out.)
You know how there's a worldwide furor over the newest development in the 10-year-old JonBenet Ramsey case? And you know how they transported the guy who claims to have done it from Asia? And you know that there's this really buzz-a-riffic campy movie out right now starring Samuel L. Jackson? Are you there already? No? Well, here was today's exciting headline with accompanying creepy photograph:
"Snake on a Plane"
I have nothing further, your Honour.
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