Yet another teen has used deadly force to protect his home from intruders.

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10. the "follow-up story"

is the subject of a thread in this forum and another in GD, I believe. Perhaps you've managed to miss them.

What "slant", exactly, would a "progressive" paper apply to a story like this?

A crime was committed and a person defended themself. Seems pretty straightforward.

It isn't an issue of "slant". It's an issue of content and choice of content.

The issue is that the Daily Mail and its various counterparts in the media hype up stories like this not to inform the public about what is really a very insignificant news item -- how many women in Africa defended themselves, successfully or unsuccessfully, against violent assaults in the course of wars waged over commodities on the same day in history, just for starters? -- but to foment opinion in support of a political agenda.

The Mail can't find enough homegrown tales for that purpose, one presumes, so they look farther afield.