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Originally Posted by Severian
WHOAH WHOAH WHOAH...
FGM IS horrifying, awful, disgusting, inexcusable, no question. But NEWSPAPERS should NOT fucking say that. Its actually an extremely important part of the whole journalistic writing approach. An editorial or opinion piece can go nuts with this shit, but it’s the opposite of news to fill a news story with loaded modifiers and value statements. It’s antithetical to the entire practice.
Have a quote from someone who says it’s awful. That’s what a journalist would do. You absolutely do not, EVER, write value-statements in a way that makes it seem as though the NEWSPAPER has an opinion.
Yes I’ve read newspapers. I work for one. Fucks sake dude. I’m not defending FGM, I’m attacking shit journalism.
And it’s true that I have no experience with the culture, so I can only offer a one-sided opinion on it all. Even though that opinion is that it’s gross and horrifying and inexcusable.
I’d lose my job if I wrote an article like this.
Don’t put words in my mouth, fam.
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I dunno. It's tabloids. That's their way of writing as moronic as it is. Fact is, there's such thing as unbiased media. Some are just better at hiding it than others.
The Daily Mail here is the perfect example of a paper trying act high class when it's nothing more than gutter press.