Idiot headlines

[beccaelizabeth]

I hate headlines in the format "Trains disrupted as person dies"
It should be more like

Person dies
trains disrupted

but nooooo, the traffic report gets the top billing.

And then if you click through it's become "Trains resume after person dies"
so the non-news about trains is still put before the actual news of dead person.

I realise part of that is that there's little information about the dead person and quite a lot available about trains, but still. Priorities.

Comments

[aurorra.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, when a person chucks themselves in front of a train, you can't legally say ANYTHING much.

So you would be writing "PERSON DIES, Trains disrupted..." and then doing the WHOLE thing about the trains anyway. It's a bit misleading to title something saying it's about dramatic death when it's actually about trains.

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[beccaelizabeth]

I can see how that works.