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Man Arrested… The Why is Unclear
This has to be one of the most perplexing headlines and framings of a story I’ve ever seen:
Man arrested after boy falls from balcony at Minnesota's Mall of America https://t.co/azOBaVWjOW pic.twitter.com/QgwwTc1mFB
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) April 13, 2019
If you click the link to read more, you discover the full story:
A 5-year-old boy suffered life-threatening injuries on Friday after being thrown or pushed by an apparent stranger from a third-floor balcony at Minnesota’s Mall of America, and a man who fled the scene has been charged with attempted homicide, police said.
Why wouldn’t the Reuters editor writing the headline and the social media manager make this point clear? It’s better journalism, not to mention making the headline “Man arrested after allegedly tossing boy from balcony at Minnesota’s Mall of America” would garner far more clicks than this ambiguous one.
On Twitter, a few folks are poking fun at this joke of a PC headline, with one Daily Wire host remarking,
"Man arrested after President Lincoln stops watching play at Ford's Theatre" https://t.co/HWoGPBWUfM
— Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) April 15, 2019
Can you imagine what kind of sanitized headlines we would have seen throughout history of this Reuters team had their way?
Drop some similar vague headlines about major world events in the comments.
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Most media outlets are not showing photos of the victim:
https://thehollywoodunlocked.com/mall-of-america-victim-identified-and-still-suffering-with-life-threatening-injuries/
And now we know why. Here is your victim of yesterday’s assault, a young boy named Landen:
It is painfully obvious that Reuters wanted to avoid the racial aspect of the case. Right now there is absolutely no proof or indication that race had anything at all to do with it, but the “news” organization decided to “play it safe,” as it were, and be as ambiguous as possible and still send the story out over the wire.
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