SL Headlines 101
"Child who went missing from Dellwood gas station found unharmed"
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In Missurah, if your car is jacked with your child in the safety seat while you pay for gas inside the station, your child has “gone missing.”
Thankfully she was dropped off unharmed before the jacker wrecked the SUV, but doesn’t the headline infer that the kid wandered off someplace, maybe chasing butterflies or such? The girl didn’t innocently go missing; she was inadvertently kidnapped as a result of negligent parenting.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, headline rule #1: skew everything to make the situation appear less bleak or less besmirching to the region.
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In Missurah, if your car is jacked with your child in the safety seat while you pay for gas inside the station, your child has “gone missing.”
Thankfully she was dropped off unharmed before the jacker wrecked the SUV, but doesn’t the headline infer that the kid wandered off someplace, maybe chasing butterflies or such? The girl didn’t innocently go missing; she was inadvertently kidnapped as a result of negligent parenting.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, headline rule #1: skew everything to make the situation appear less bleak or less besmirching to the region.
posted by Jason Lott at 8:57 AM
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