antigeist

May 20, 2004

But they saved a bundle on the catering.

I am in no way making light of the horrific US attack on an Iraqi village that killed 40 innocents, women and children primarily. No. I simply wish to point out that the LA Times, whose staff gathered no less than five Pulitzer's last Monday, chose the headline, "Residents say the dead were celebrating a wedding."

The dead. Were celebrating. Not the 'victims were attending', no, The Dead were actively celebrating. Since those LA Times folks seem to know what there doing in the journalistic word-smithery game, I'd say that's a pretty big story.

Posted by Antigeist at May 20, 2004 08:40 AM
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Kinda sounds like one of those "Dia de los Muertos" things. I'm picturing papier mache skeletons. (not to make light... I think the whole thing's disgusting)

Posted by: z. at May 20, 2004 12:52 PM

I pictured something more along the line of the zombie dance number in MJ's Thriller video. Dead folk getting down. All star band, The Pastons.

(note to the humor-impaired: mocking the HEADLINE not the EVENT)

Posted by: antigeist at May 20, 2004 02:57 PM

Maybe Phil Lesh and Bob Weir were there?

Posted by: Vidiot at May 20, 2004 04:11 PM

Ah the contortions patriotic journalists wring out of language. "You took out college loans for that?" Don't want to dispirit their readers; united front, win one for the Gipper, L-word phobia (liberal).
As of today's NPR's noon news, the army's claiming they "received fire" from that crack house or insurgent headquarters, I forget which. Furthermore no women or children were killed. There's was no wedding. NPR reported that Iraq doctors say otherwise.
The army's strategy is to deny, deny, deny until another atrocity, won't have to wait long, another Nick Berg comes along to capture the wire-services attention?

Posted by: cieciel at May 20, 2004 04:47 PM

Oh don't you worry. There'll be more Nick Bergs. Bet on it. Al Qaida will continue to fill the vacuum Bush's "Operation" created, publicly murder more insurgents (that'd be us, folks), and Bush can say "SEEEEEE? Told you they were in Iraq." to the American people right up to election day.

Posted by: anti at May 21, 2004 09:20 AM