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General => Current Events => Topic started by: ThinkAnarchy on April 25, 2012, 06:02:33 PM

Title: I find this article at the Daily Mail rather insulting.
Post by: ThinkAnarchy on April 25, 2012, 06:02:33 PM
Pictures in link.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2133649/Stunning-black-white-pictures-nations-rural-ruins-exiled-American-Dream.html?ICO=most_read_module

It's the captions under the pictures that I find so offensive. Not to mention in one, a man has a nice buck he just shot in the bed of his truck. Good hunters typically don't want for food...

And "man guzzles beer." Captions aside, the pictures are really good.  :)

QuotePhotographer Steven Rubin spent much of the 1980s traveling throughout Maine's countryside with nothing more than a camera and a bit of cash.

This month, a Los Angeles gallery will display an extensive collection of images from that time period, painting a portrait of American poverty that many have never seen.


Title: Re: I find this article at the Daily Mail rather insulting.
Post by: Tank on April 25, 2012, 06:12:12 PM
Here's another article http://lightbox.time.com/2012/04/17/vacationland-rural-maine-chronicled-in-the-photography-of-steven-rubin/#1

Interestingly the captions on one article are different on the other for the same photo.
Title: Re: I find this article at the Daily Mail rather insulting.
Post by: Ali on April 27, 2012, 04:10:26 PM
I don't get it.  Which captions were offensive?  I saw "Man sips a beer" but not "Man guzzles beer."  He does, in fact, have a beer in his hand.  So?
Title: Re: I find this article at the Daily Mail rather insulting.
Post by: Recusant on April 27, 2012, 05:12:26 PM
According to the time stamps below the title of the Daily Mail article, it was "updated" the same day as ThinkAnarchy posted about it. In his defense, I also read "guzzle" in one of the captions, which seems to have been toned down. The Daily Mail is infamous for being a purveyor of various flavors of atrocious tripe. A couple of its epithets are "Daily Heil" and "Daily Fail." I've noticed that the Fox News online version has been linking to more Daily Mail online articles of late.
Title: Re: I find this article at the Daily Mail rather insulting.
Post by: ThinkAnarchy on April 27, 2012, 07:06:06 PM
Yeah they did change that first caption. The others weren't memorable enough to tell. I guess they received emails from people.