| Daily Mail Watch |
[Jun. 12th, 2008|01:50 pm] |
Okay, it's time to check in with the Daily Mail again. Will the hate-mongers have become responsible, honest, or fair in the past week or two?
Christian teenager died after having abortion to avoid upsetting Muslim boyfriend's family
Daily Mail FAIL!
Silly Daily Mail! Can you not just run an anti-abortion article without dragging religion into it? The religion of the two people involved has NOTHING to do with this (especially since I think both religions are mostly opposed to abortion in cases like this.) Had the situation been reversed, would the headline have screamed 'Muslim teenager died after having abortion to avoid upsetting Christian boyfriend's family?' I think not, Daily Mail!
It doesn't help that with the wording of the headline they're pretty heavily implying that she was pressured into having an abortion by the Muslim family.
I mean, from that more-loaded-than-a-baked-potato headline, you don't really expect to read that the girl's family knew about the abortion beforehand, or, indeed, that her boyfriend was with her just before she died and that the parents of the girl don't have a single bad thing to say about the boyfriend, his family, or Islam.
Epic fail, Daily Mail! Back to headline writing school with you!
(EDIT: the Daily Mail changed the headline in question. See this post for details.) |
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