may have been EATEN cannibal-style.[...] Presumabl...

2010-05-29T13:02:43.757+01:00

may have been EATEN cannibal-style.[...]
Presumably as opposed to any other sort of style?

As opposed to with a knife and fork, like ordinary decent Sun reading folk :-)

The Mail's coverage was particularly farcical ...

2010-05-28T19:03:25.103+01:00

The Mail's coverage was particularly farcical - it honestly reads like a skit satirising their obsession with class and privilege. Here's how they opened today's front page article:

"The man charged with the Bradford prostitute murders attended one of the leading private schools, it has emerged.

Stephen Griffiths - who arrived at Bradford Magistrates Court this morning - benefited from a high quality education at a £9,000-a-year day school and went on to a top university.

Despite a fine start in life, the criminology student soon became obsessed with the history of serial killers and descended into a seedy, internet-addicted existence in a housing association flat.

In addition, his parents split when he was young."

Leaving aside the fact that the Mail comes across as surprised that a criminology student should display an interest in the history of serial killers, it outright assumes that the cost of one's education determines one's moral compass, being of far greater importance than, say, a troubled home life. There's also the repeated insistence that Griffiths was a loner - something we see quite often in tabloid coverage of criminals despite the fact that on the whole serial killers (as opposed to, say, school or office shooters) tend to be well-socialised and succeed in committing their crimes because they are able to persuade others of the rightness of their actions and evade suspicion by the authorities.

I for one have been commenting on the fact that al...

2010-05-28T09:19:42.573+01:00

I for one have been commenting on the fact that almost all the news outlets seem to have him charged with three murders. We've one murder and two suspected murders, but then saying that doesn't allow them to plaster "serial killer" on their front pages.

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may have been EATEN cannibal-style.[...] Presumabl...

The Mail's coverage was particularly farcical ...

I for one have been commenting on the fact that al...