Dear Guardian
Faithfully I pick you up every morning, and enjoy the time I spend in your company. I am happy to spend money on you, because I have always felt that you were worth it. But I was disappointed with you today. I feel you let me down.
On your front page you led with a story about Russian diplomacy. The mass killings in Iraq were amalgamated into another story on the third page- “In Baghdad, Carnage Continues.”
Is that it? Is that what 200 lives are worth? One measly page and an unimaginative headline?
The Indy led with that story. So did the Metro. You, Guardian, you picked Cold War over Hot War, diplomacy over deaths. You let me down. And, you let yourself down.
depressedalcoholicinsomniac
I don't think they let you down. Death happens daily, by this reasoning the famine and horrific crimes in africa would dominate the news. The Grauniad, while not my paper of choice, have made a journalistic decision to go with the piece they feel is the most relevant.
I think it's more interesting that death is the headline news, sadness and evil doings are front page. When was a front page dedicated to a person doing the right thing, and as a result no-one died...?
I'm with you that papers shouldn't sell out to sensationalism, but I'm with the Grauniad on the the idea that the prospective death of millions outweighs what we already know about the scandal in Iraq.