A HOMOSEXUAL TRYST that turned into robbery and ended in death went before the No. 2 Supreme Court yesterday.
This is how the Nation newspaper begins its story on a manslaughter trial currently underway here. Translation: gayness will kill you. And have you noticed how the sentence implies that it's the actual 'homosexual tryst' that's the crime here? If we remove the qualifiers, we get: "a homosexual tryst went before the No. 2 Supreme Court yesterday." And that's precisely how the article is written.
Here's what I think happens on the newsroom floor of the Nation:
Reporter: I'd like to cover the Courts today. There's a manslaughter trial up.
Editor: Oh. Anything interesting there?
Reporter: I think the men involved are gay. In fact, I heard when one of them was killed, they were being all gay together.
Editor: Really! Well...make sure to lead with that. The gayness. Write as much as you can about any gay sex that was involved, and let's close with a restatement about how gay everything was.
Reporter: Anything else? Like about the victim's family or...
Editor: Nope! Just the gayness will do. Everyone knows gayness goes hand in hand with death and destruction, and we have a duty to represent that.
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Perfectly captured mongoose...although I wonder if they'll actually get it...the inefficiencies of our local reporting are so commonplace that the public seems to have grown immune.
ReplyDeleteAgreed Ingrid. But forget the public. Our NEWSROOMS have become so myopic and insipid that I doubt THEY will get it. Their loss. I got a GREAT belly laugh out of it. Ya know, being acquainted with so many alive and healthy and undestroyed gay people and all.
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