Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Is murder just so common now?

Yesterday, a young Ryerson student was murdered. An arrest was made last evening over the supper hour -- and yet the Toronto SUN's front page story for today was:

MILLIONS HELP 25 YEAR OLD T.O. VIRGIN GET LUCKY ON eLAY

Is it because people probably heard the news last night? Or maybe because 'domestic' - type homicides are fairly common? Sure, the tawdry sex story is more sensational -- but is it really news? Is some guy's sex life more more important than a young woman having been murdered in her home?

Is it just me, or is the emphasis on sex in everything getting overwhelming?

Mostly, I like the SUN. Often they'll have a sports win on the front page, or a celebrity, but not usually when there is actual big news in the city. This piece about they guy and his virginity might be an oddity or human interest, but it's also kind of smutty for a newspaper that gets left on tables in McDonalds etc.

Even if there were no murders in the city, no robberies, no important national news -- I think today's front page is tasteless.

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7 comments:

Sara said...

a 4 year old died in a fire in Ottawa and the same day online the paper had a picture of her,, it was heart breaking. One thing reading it but seeing her precious little face was torture and emotional....

OMMAG said...

No class........

Joan Tintor said...

I am surprised the Sun would make this their cover story, when by their own admission they could not locate the alleged platonic friend who says she will help the virgin out if his site gets 5,000,000 hits.

Anonymous said...

But journalists aren't stupid, shallow, airhead dicks. Really they're not.

Joanne (True Blue) said...

The Sun is kind of a schizoid paper- Tabloid trying to be taken seriously, but still small-town cheap.

Love Lorrie Goldstein though.

Anonymous said...

The murdered girl is simply dead, an extremely sad fact, but because she is dead her rights no longer exist and no one besides her immediately family will pay her any respect.

Certainly the Courts have no respect for the dead - in this and many other cases it is the murderers that get treated with the utmost respect for their feelings, to the extent that the Courts don't want to 'ruin their lives' etc. even though they're murderers...

Anonymous said...

The murdered girl was a close friend of mine and there are going to be a lot of people paying our respect to her this weekend at her funeral, not just her immediate family. Maybe the Sun should put something a little bit more accurate on the front page like how any criminal can immigrate to Canada and continue to do crimes once they're here. Aren't our immigration laws great? Canadians can get murdered in their own homes just like Nat because of the god-damned nutbars our government so openly accepts and welcomes into this country. Wow.