Boston, Boston, Boston, whining about some random crank assaulting a meter maid… Here in NYC, our State Senators assault traffic agents, then demand apologies!
I don’t get it. In the first part it sounds like you’re lambasting the driver and at the end you seem to be making the point that the meter maid is ‘the man’ and bringing the driver down.
And all the ‘hot button’ items are perfectly legitimate for the who, what, where, when, how, why of the story. And their stuff the reporter can put in to be easily pulled if space demands.
I think she’s Pitting the slant of the story, which is not overdone but is definitely slightly less than totally objective. Not that I disagree with the slant! – but the point (IMO) is that the story was written from a less-than-unbiased stance. Their relative sizes, his driving a Hummer and stopping in a no-parking area in front of a Starbuck’s – all factual but not essential to the basic story: Man hurls hot coffee at parking EO for giving him a ticket, and all together add up to portray him in a negative light. Although honestly, if I were writing the story I’d have probably done it the same way.
People, people, let’s go with the obvious – I was Pitting the asshole driver. It amused me that so many hot-button topics were rolled up into one story. After all, how many Pit threads have we seen where people go off on SUV drivers, no-parking-zone parkers, jerks with a massive case of entitlement assholery, and so forth?
But the essence of the Pitting is that the driver is a stupid thug. He broke the law, got caught, and escalated a minor infraction into a felony assault. The “jackbooted oppression” stuff was blatant sarcasm, and I’ve been trying to wean myself off of smilies lately, or I’d have been flinging :rolleyes: all over the damned thread.
Polycarp, my dumpling, if you think the Boston Globe story was a bit slanted, well… that’s the local respectable (if somewhat liberal-leaning) broadsheet newspaper. You want slanted, take a look at our dear little tabloid, the Boston Herald, whose article on the story (good for a huge front-page headline) has a darling photo of an enraged Mayor Menino as an added goodie.
Oh, and El Kabong, the llama piss goes for $1.25 extra if you include the rabies.
