Is This Not A Disgusting Headline?

[anotheoldgit]

I am known for my liking and in some cases support for the Daily Mail website, when it is unduly criticised by some.

But I feel that I must also criticise the said paper for this disgusting headline.

/// 'Rottweiler' Trierweiler leaves with her tail between her legs: Humiliated French First Lady leaves her taxpayer-funded home after being dumped by Hollande (but still gets armed escort ///

Whatever one's feelings about this case, I don't think many will agree that she is the one to criticise and mock.

[jake-the-peg]

//I don't think many will agree that she is the one to criticise and mock. //

Ségolène Royal might!

[jno]

I agree. (With you, I mean.)

[jno]

well, Gayet might too, jake, but no reason for me to do so.

[jim360]

It certainly is an unusual slant on the story. Man betrays woman. Woman leaves (quite rightly). Newspaper implies it's the woman's fault or at least criticises her. How odd.

[Baldric]

Further into the article she is described as 'the Firebrand 48 year old'

so maybe there's an element of truth in there!
not knowing her myself I can't possibly say.

[Sqad]

AOG...One never knows what goes on behind the "locked doors" of marriage. But yes, on the face of it, the press report does seem harsh.

[boxtops]

It's sensationalist - reminds me why I don't read the DM.

[ChillDoubt]

I agree about the headline.
I can only surmise that she got the 'armed escort' as they were afraid she may 'kick off' again and cause another £2.5 million of damage!

[Gromit]

It is an attempt at a pun but is very laboured a fails.

Trierweiler is a german district and the word looks similar to rottweiler so the they have appended her name for no other good reason than it is a word we know for a dog.
That lets them use the pun, leaving 'with her tail between her legs'. Probably a totally inaccurate description of her leaving. It looks like she is well shut of him.
The armed escort bit is again used to shine her in an unsympathetic light.

Why would the DM take this line? Is it simply ingrained sexism at the paper?

[ludwig]

He's a left winger. Presumably she is too. That's the only reason the Mail is making a big deal out of it.

[bundleone]

Why can't they just print the facts instead of humiliating and bullying?

[Peter Pedant]

AOG...One never knows what goes on behind the "locked doors" of marriage. But yes, on the face of it, the press report does seem harsh.


sqad - erm they aren't married

He is, I mean, but not to her - nor to his other mistress
he is, of course, married to his wife ( as is the custom even in France ) whom we neva hear about

[Peter Pedant]

She is nicknamed Rottweiler in the French press, innit ?

Is this not a disgusting headline
Bitch gives birth to pups
Mrs Thatcher today welcomed the new arrivals in her family as Fluffy - the Thatcher family dog - bichon frisee - whelped and present the prime minister with.....

If anyone had read that in 1990 - they would surely think
Light news day - wouldnt they ?

[woofgang]

because bundleone if papers only printed the facts, they would be very thin and boring and no one would buy them!!

[Peter Pedant]

OK what about:
Mr MacMillan knocks prostitute

The prime minister Mr MacMillan today criticized Miss Christine Keeler's kiss-and-tell memoirs which were published in todays Times as a 'pack of lurid iies involving respected members of the government. Miss Mandy rice Davies commented - well he would, wouldnt he ? as reporters taxed the pair ....

[sandyRoe]

And society osteopath, Stephen Ward, promised if any member of the government got the hump after reading said memoirs he would treat them for free.

[Peter Pedant]

sorry
reporters jostled the pair ....

[sandyRoe]

If the pair were jostled they might need Ward's services all the more.

[sandyRoe]

What part had Prince Philip in that scandal, anyone know?

[sandyRoe]

Makes you think that Al Fayed's suspicions may not be unfounded. Stephen Ward had to go all those years ago, Diana too more recently.