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Originally Posted by Taltarzac
http://www.laureloutlook.com/article...ts/12poach.txt
Notice the lack of yellow journalism you see in the Orlando Sentinel story as described by the Shadow anyway.
The article from MT describes one of the allegations against James Rainey as:
"€ Two misdemeanor charges of waste of game in Big Horn County in September 2009. Rainey is accused of killing two elk, then removing only the head from one elk and allowing the meat from both carcasses to rot."
It does not go into the use of a chainsaw. This would seem to be something a prosecutor would want to point out when telling a jury about the case he or she would prove. It plays on your emotion. I cannot think of many other ways of removing an elk's head from its body except those that are just as graphic in their description.
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I don't know that I'd call it yellow journalism - that tends to be sensationalist headlines, which is certainly the case here, but yellow journalism also implies lack of factual basis, poor research, faked interviews, unnamed sources, etc. In this case the headlines, although sensationalist, appear to be true. They are based on affadavits that are a matter of public record.
Unfortunately, everything lately from the media seems to be sensationalist - that's how they grab everyone's attention. Look at this recent headline in the national news: "Condit's DNA found on Levy's Underwear", like we needed to hear that. The Orlando Sentinel isn't doing anything different than any other media source is doing, its trying to sell papers and stay afloat financially. I don't care for the sensationalism, but I do think they are presenting the facts in the matter.