All men are equal, but some are more newsworthy than others
In today’s newspapers the top story is that an Austrian man allegedly held his daughter prisoner for twenty-four years and fathered seven children with her. In other news Brown responds to Lord Levy’s allegations that Blair thinks he can’t beat Cameron in an election, top public schools will not submit their results for inclusion in the Government’s league tables, the bloke off the BT adverts has had a car crash, Mandelson tells the Labour party to refocus, Frank Lampard might return to the Chelsea team on Wednesday and (if you read far enough down) 66 people have died in a train crash in China.
I know they were ‘only Chinese’ but surely they rate above the sound of one Mandelson clapping.
Sixty-six deaths. Just another example of how tragedies in Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, South America and especially the Middle East go unreported. I imagine that Ginger Spice’s reading her new book for children in a school will be amply reported, though.
It sucks, verily.
This feels like an uncomfortably trivial reply, but after reading the title, I misread a word in the opening line as “Australian”. You can see where I’m going with this.
Another superb post, I hope a blogging trophy of some description ends up with you.