February 11, 2024

The Guardian's "Most viewed" list brings me close to despair, even as I plan to read half of them.

2 of these headlines are so inherently unbelievable that I feel angry at The Guardian for publishing them like that:

19 comments:

hombre said...

It's really no wonder that lefties live in a "through the looking glass" world. WaPo is just this absurd and the NYT and network news only slightly removed.

Wince said...

"Closer to despair" over the state of the world, or the state of journalism?

Readering said...

Hope you'll be blogging about the the tempted affair, and that it turns out to end in a lesbian orgy. Does the Guardian cover stuff like that, or is that Mail territory?

Jaq said...

I think that Trump was in "negotiating" mode, and what he meant was that Europe really really really should be paying for their own defense, but that was a gaffe, pure and simple.

JRoberts said...

What, nothing about Harry and Me-Again???

JRoberts said...

Maybe slightly OT, but the tease regarding Atlanta “Cop City” portrays the “activists” as the victims. In reality, these terrorists have engaged in some of the worst vandalism and violence towards police, construction sites and citizens since the Summer of 2020.

Quaestor said...

The Guardian's mission, to comfort the comfortable and afflict the afflicted.

According to Urswick, Bardsea, and Stainton parish councilor Denise Chamberlain, alligator snappers are "a very dangerous invasive species. They can snap arms and small children."

Do tell. Why, every third amputee in the United States lost his limb to an infuriated shellback in baby-snapping mode. Is a councilorship in three parishes at once insufficient busyness for this busybody that outrage over a turtle in a pond must be stoked?

gilbar said...

So,
she "claimed" that she "accidentally" placed her baby in the oven thinking that it was the crib..
And then, set the crib to 400 degrees, and walked away.

I do NOT have a baby, or a crib.. But i do NOT think that the standard crib has a temperature dial?

If this was an episode of Dragnet.. We'd assume that she was stoned out of her mind.
But since this REALLY happened.. We KNOW that she was stoned out of her mind (and WANTED to kill the kid)

Oso Negro said...

In fairness, the modern bassinet could be easily confused with an oven. It's probably the roasting rack that confuses the young mother.

gilbar said...

OH!
we ALSO know, that:
since this happened, in Real life. And that the mom was Black.. There will be NO charges?

Old and slow said...

In the case of Sweden's rash of bombings, I'd venture to say that easy availability of information is the least of the problem. The one victim named was a Muslim, and I would bet the rest were as well. Sweden has really opened its doors with predictable results.

Omaha1 said...

I believe the baby in the oven story is sadly true. Since it happened in KC, MO it is kind of local news for me in Kansas. There is a mug shot. The baby died, and suffered burns. No explanation was given for why the mother mistook the oven for the baby's crib. She was charged with "endangering the welfare of a child".

Temujin said...

I have the opening song to "Oklahoma!" running through my head as I read them.

Joe Smith said...

Screw the NYT, Althouse has a new beau : )

Tina Trent said...

The Guardian left out the parts about shooting a cop, shooting at multiple police, firebombing police and police cars on a narrow urban street where it's a miracle no police or firemen or tourists were killed, publishing lists of businesses and private residents to attack, celebrating the rapes and murders of women in Israel with chants and cries for more blood, endorsing and marching for the elimination of Israel, handing out pamphlets with instructions for killing police and other public employees -- in a Quaker church that is sponsoring them here in Atlanta -- and brutally assaulting police with steel reinforced umbrellas and concrete filled PVC. I was about three feet away from the latter. If you don't want to be raided for terroristic acts, don't announce you're going to commit terroristic acts, provide lists of targets (currently at stopcopcitysolidarity, previously advertised openly by the Quakers and AFSC) and then systematically begin firebombing those targets in several states.

The police didn't know whether or not they were walking into a bomb-making factory on Edgewood. That's the way you have to clear out places occupied by self-proclaimed terrorists that may contain bomb-making materials or other weapons. Some whiny wannabe terrorist might have temporarily lost her shirt, but at least her teeth and fingernails didn't have to be pried out of rubble using tweezers to identify her body for her parents.

Ask Diana Oughton. These people are dangerous.

Big Mike said...

I had wondered why the article I had previously read this morning about a London rabbi forced to hide himself and his young family due to antisemitic death threats, but then I realized it was in the Daily Mail. So unlike the US newspapers in the UK are not all alike.

Narayanan said...

No explanation was given for why the mother mistook the oven for the baby's crib.
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was mom member of Hamas or read about their technique?

loudogblog said...

And this is why journalism is dying.

Gemna said...

Geez, that is a depressing set of headlines

There's no way you could mistakenly put a baby in the oven. I suppose it shows is not just political reporting that's problematic at the Guardian.

How exactly do Freedom of Information laws lead to bombings? Sounds like Guardian is calling for massive censorship.