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Great, another article with a misleading headline, and when you read the article the crucial bit is in the last line, where its mentioned its likely an accidental discharge.
Seems like other news sources are mentioning this more explicitly.
Still shouldnt be waving guns around, or have them at all IMO, but thats no excuse for the poor framing of the article by the author.
Edit: I get it, we call them negligent discharges now. Doesnt change my point. This is not a random fit of murderous rage, its a mishandled firearm.
Can't talk about how dangerous guns are though right.
How is it misleading? Shot in the face.. that did happen.
When you leave stuff out, peoples brains fill in the blanks.
What did you expect the story would be about? And how many people in this thread posted stuff that was contradicted by the content of the article.
Do you want a better example of a headline?
Yes, please give me an example. Titles are supposed to be short and concise. The teen was shot in the face. The Title doesn't say it was intentionally or accidentally.
Are you saying that the title should be a paragraph long and include all details in the article?
It should be designed to summarize the most relevant parts of the article. In this case its designed to get an emotional response, which is manipulation.
I will agree its not explicitly misleading, but there are better headlines for this story out there. Feel free to compare yourself.
Get the fuck outta here...
You can't have it both ways is it misleading or not?
Explicitly means it literally says misleading words. Implicitly means it leaves out relevant words.
Its like lieing by omission.
In my opinion its misleading, but maybe I just have an awful time parsing headlines.
You can't offer a better headline. And you admit its not misleading. Take L and move on. I'm not going to search. It's your argument to prove. I feel it's accurate. It's not misleading; the title is accurate.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misleading
It, misleading, means to be deceptive, imo, the headline is not deceptive.
Edit also trying to change what you originally said. You didn't say it wasn't implicit.
I can I wanted you to say that first.
This one is more explicit: https://coloradosun.com/2024/09/12/homecoming-photo-shooting/
This one leaves out details but isnt leading: https://www.denverpost.com/2024/09/11/jefferson-county-teen-shot-homecoming-pictures/
I also saw a number of worse article titles, so overall I'd say this one in this post is about a 5/10 on the misleading scale, not tricky to figure out but still could be better.