Well yesterday was started with headline that was definitely not suited to the story, ‘Massacre at Turkey Wedding’. Now, 44 people were killed in this horrific incident when masked gunmen entered the party in the Mardin province of Turkey. The enormity and seriously of the attack, however, did not stop the BBC from using this particular headline, to collate with a scene in Tarantino’s Kill Bill, dubbed ‘Massacre at Two Pines’, whereby gunmen enter a wedding chapel and open fire. I just feel a bit of insensitivity on the behalf of the BBC with this one.
Another bombing in Baghdad has left 10 people Dead, BBC News reports, after an explosion in a vegetable market in the Iraqi capital. The report goes on to say that the series of bombings in recent weeks has shown April to be the bloodiest month of the year, with 335 Deaths.
This news is coupled with another car bomb, this time in north-western Pakistan. The suicide blast killed four security personnel.
News on a more heart-felt note of feminist writer Marilyn French passing away at 79. One of the captions in the report simply says ‘not a man-hater’. Feminists get a rough ride.
Another hazardous tragedy has been witnessed in Brazil, with severe floods killing 15 people throughout the north and north-eastern regions of the country. Why is this not ‘headline news’? Maybe because it is an even happening so far away, with so little impact on ourselves?
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