newspaper bias in UK

[gholt417]

On Saturday's (30th July) Daily Mirror there was an article taking up two thirds of a page about a banned motorcyclist getting jailed for going through about 25 speed cameras in a couple of months (including 90mph past a school). Now okay, he deserved to be jailed but no one got hurt. Directly below the article, in a piece about two inches high, the paper reported on a thug who decided to race his mate in a car (both were in cars) and two people died. That thug got 7 years.

Now I am not complaining about the British justice system, but how can a newspaper decide that the motorcycle article is more important than someone who causes the deaths of two people? Somehow it don't seem right.

Any views anyone??

Graham

[dshealey]

The same kind of reporting goes on here in the US. There seems to be no logic used by the media. I don't blame the reporters, but the editors and staff. I think they just find things to fit the proper spaces, and fill them. I doubt many of the articles are even read by the layout departments.

[jayz9705]

In the newest Superman flick, Perry White, editor of the Daily Planet, says something like 'Three things sell newspapers, Sex, Blood and Superman!'


We don't have Superman.......