It is probably tempting fate to use the words “new low” and “tabloid” in the same sentence but I cannot resist: Polish tabloid Fakt has hit a new low. Their animatronic reconstructions used to be just ridiculous pandering to their non-literate readers but this…
Former minister Barbara Blida was arrested in her home on suspicion of corruption yesterday. A gun went off and she died. The official story is she committed suicide (by shooting herself in the chest). Fakt’s photoreporters could not be there to witness this exciting event so they cobbled together a gun-blazing reconstruction and published it on the front page today. Barbara Blida has a sister. She lives upstairs in the same building. She also has a husband: he answered the door to the police. I don’t know the sister or husband but I would guess they have feelings.