From Natalie Solent, noting (with Scott Burgess) that the Independent has abandoned its role as a newspaper to become instead a dispenser of morality tales, as it omits more and more information it doesn’t think people should be aware of – such as for instance that it’s not only white people who are capable of behaving badly:
If this carries on it’ll save a packet on the paper’s coverage of the sunnier parts of the world. There were dramatic developments in Basra today, where people did stuff. Meanwhile in Darfur people did peoply things, other people claim. Eventually it might reach a stage where the only person mentioned by name in the entire newspaper was George W. Bush. One would open one’s copy to see the Presidential name repeated endlessly, like a mantra.
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