Shafia accused saw deceased as ‘diseased limb’

That’s what the head read on the front page of the CBC.ca site. It implies that the accused stated that the murder victims were indeed no more than diseased limbs to him. But if you read the next sentence in a much smaller, unbolded, type size:

“Three Montrealers accused of drowning four family members in Kingston, Ont., viewed the deceased as the “diseased limb on the family tree” that needed to be removed, the prosecutor told jury members on Thursday.”

…you realize that in fact this statement was made up by a prosecutor who, in speaking to a jury, is trying to get a conviction. For skimmers like me (who make up at lest half of the population according to a recent non-scientific survey) the first, and likely lasting, impression is that the accused did in fact have this view instead of the actual fact that this is purely an accusation on a part of a prosecutor trying to win a case.

I hate this kind of journalism. I would rather read the National Enquirer where at least I know they are deliberately skewing the story. I declare it a stupid human trick.