Parody or Parity?

A few days ago, President Obama was speaking at a fundraiser in California, when a heckler shouted, "You're the Antichrist!" and was hustled out of the room by Secret Service. End of story.

Or, if you're our local paper, you take up nearly the entirety of the international news section with a two-line header reading "They [plural] Scream "Antichrist" at Barack Obama," and illustrate it with an enormous, unrelated photograph of a bunch of Pakistanis burning the president in effigy.

The analogy between this and US media coverage of the drug war in Mexico should be obvious.