I can't figure this out

[tiggerblue10]

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/world/article.html ?Female_archer_kills_elephant_for_a_bet&in_art icle_id=648555&in_page_id=64

I am absolutely disgusted with the woman in this article but I can't fathom out what point of view the Metro are taking. There is no indication of whether they are reporting it as a wrong doing or just highlighting the fact that a female hunter has killed her first elephant with a bow and arrow.

I would be grateful for your take on this please.

Thank you

[Whickerman]

It's actually a very good example of a well reported story. It's not perfect - it reports the remarks of a pro-hunting source but not a rebuttal - but in presenting the facts it does what news should do and leave you as reader to make up your own mind.

This could make you think about how the American style of news-crossing-into-opinion has replaced factual reporting on this side of the atlantic. Almost every newspaper and tv/radio news here now is tainted by bias.

[paraffin]

All for the sake of her own personal vanity! Couldn't she just have proved that she was capable of using the weapon without having to kill a defenceless animal as well?

[tiggerblue10]

I guessed as much but, I would have thought with elephants being an endangered species it would be inappropriate to report it in such a away or even report it full stop.

[DrFilth]

i think she is a cow and my pets like meat


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lets hope the next arrow rebounds off a rock and hits her

[Schutzengel]

Utterly senseless and disgusting.

[jno]

it's probably legal; several countries permit hunting (at a substantial price) to keep herd sizes in check. I'm sure Mugabe will be grateful for her financial input.

[No,Knowledge]

culling elephants to control the population is allowed in many African countries tigger , She will have paid a huge sum for the dubious pleasure of killing this animal.

[tiggerblue10]

Thank you for your views. I am very saddened by this story but then I got upset yesterday when I saw a freshly killed fox on the road. I know foxes are considered vermin by some people but I hate seeing any needless killing of animals in the name of fun.

[DSnewsKE]

She sure looks proud. If she ever visits the UK, the ALF will have her in their sights, they won't miss either.

Hiya tiggs.

[jno]

DSnewsKE, fortunately they only use arrows with rubber suckers on the end, so as not to cause undue grief to palefaces.

[persianlady]

I could cheerfully put her up against a wall and shoot her. What a sadistic cow she is!

[brachiopod]

It's true that culling of elephant herds is "necessary", and that allowing hunters to shoot selected animals raises revenue for the relevant reserve.

However, what gets me about this story (I was trying to read it over the shoulder of someone on the train into work this morning), and now having re-read it, is that in the printed version [of Metro], it states;

"The Kansas woman described how she fired one arrow to injure the animal before leaving it to die overnight"

Oh yes I am the Great White Hunter...... not.

[ludwig]

In answer to the question I think the tone is condemnatory (if that is a word) in a subtle way.
They mention that she 'boasted' about it (twice). They emphasis that she did it 'for a bet' - the insinuation being that she did it for no good reason. It is written in a kind of weird flat style which could either be deliberate or just bad writing, but that's how I see it - subtley disapproving.

[brachiopod]

In terms of the reporting, I don't think Metro has a stance - it inherits it from whichever source it has culled (verbatim) the story.

[jedimistress]

The ALF is always non-violent direct action. Tending towards directly liberating animals rather than retribution. Despite the media hysteria which leads people to believe otherwise.

[jedimistress]

http://www.huntsofalifetime.com/Teressa.htm

Sick witch.

[jno]

property destruction is okay by the ALF. That doesn't sound non-violent to me, though they obviously think otherwise; but to me it recalls Nazis smashing the windows of Jewish shops.

[Ice.Maiden]

Hi Tigger.
I'm not interested in whether the reporting was good or bad, but it's controversial at the least, and horrible at the worst.
Who decided that elephants need to be culled? They're extremely intelligent and loving animals - one of a few to cry over their dead young, and I think that woman's sick.

[jno]

Ice, elephants need to be culled if the land can't support them. They require huge amounts of land - they can cover 50 miles a night, stomping all the vegetation in their path. African countries don't lightly cull them, because safaris are always a good money-spinner. But humans need land too, and sometimes there just isn't enough to go round. I have no idea whether bows and arrows are more or less painful than bullets, though.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/726295 1.stm

[jedimistress]

And if someone had taken direct action and destroyed the Nazi's property, a gas chamber perhaps, would your view be the same?