While perusing the attention-deficit-disorder-friendly website of one of Vancouver’s daily newspapers over breakfast, we lost our appetite. Splayed across the website’s homepage was a grainy photo of a bloody, zombie-like, possibly dead Moammar Gadhafi who was killed Thursday.
As someone who has eaten cold pizza and leftover Thai curry for breakfast on occasion, we can honestly say that staring at photos of a dead Libyan dictator is the least appetizing start to our day we’ve experienced in some time.
Thankfully, the webpage was surrounded by a beige coloured ad for McDonald’s new Fruit and Maple Oatmeal. Not only that, but conveniently to the right of the dead dictator porn was a sensitive photo gallery of “Top 10 celebrity redheads,” with a picture of an extremely busty Christina Hendricks from the TV show Mad Men, who apparently “brings a whole new meaning to the phrase, ‘red-hot ginger.’” We didn’t even know “red-hot ginger” was a phrase in the first place.
We guess that’s what’s called in the news biz “balanced coverage.” Graphic photos of dead dictators, graphic photos of busty redheads and a healthy breakfast.
