I know 24 Hours is not the best source of news but the image of that beached whale on the cover this morning really bothered me.  In the photograph the whale seems to be bleeding profusly and is floating in a pool of its own blood.  Was the whale actually bleeding?  I don’t think so!  It seems to me that the photographer had made use of the red tarp overhead (protecting the whale from the sun) to create the illusion of blood in the reflection of the water.  There is no blood in the photograph on page three.  This bothers me because the color of the tarp is not the same as the dark red blood color of the cover image.  So either it was just the shadow or some dude was busy photoshopping the image last night to make the whale look like it was in worse shape.  More blood on the whale!  More blood!  If it bleeds it leads!

I guess this is no surprise coming from a paper that has photographs of Britney Spears, Lucy liu, Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie on PAGE TWO!  It just bugged me.  Oh, and the whale swam away when the tide came in after a team of vollies kept her cool and wet!