User:JelloMold/Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo[edit | edit source]
The Liverpool Echo is a popular eulogy column for victims of drive by shootings in Merseyside, first published in the early 80's, initial sales were slow until journalists began handing out assault weapons to teens in Croxteth, Toxteth, and Foxteth in the hope that their 'independent and uninflunenced choices with said weaponry' would result in better news stories.
The Liverpool Echo is known for recycling it's headlines every week, typically they are:
- Monday: Two Shot in Gun Terror
- Tuesday: Mother tells of grief at drive-by shooting
- Wednesday: Three held on suspicion of manslaughter
- Thursday: Ram raid gang convicted
- Friday: Teenager arrested on suspicion of gang execution
- Saturday: Grief of gun victim family
- Sunday: Teen stabbed in Aintree
Some say the Liverpool Echo does not help the 'general mood within liverpool' nor the 'outside perception' by never including any positive news about the area. In a 2008 interview, Editor Anthony Killalot retorted with "The Liverpool Echo is a proud newspaper that dedicates itself to the TRUTH, which is that dozens (possibly HUNDREDS) of teens are shot every week in Gloxteth alone. Nevermind that we 'gave them the weapons' that's so last century, and many have now traded their handguns for newer models that have nothing to do with us! Besides, last week we dedicated a whole page to a boy who ESCAPED a gang shooting, so ner"