The media is so damned corrupted. The headline says the officer shot a DUI. Then the story is the guy was shooting at the officers.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...4bc89ae4f31a4ac57277

I hear you. We just had an officer involved shooting, hereinafter OIS. Headline reads Officer on administrative leave after shooting.

Clean shoot. All good. But, you have to run the title to make it appear the cop was bad or the officer F’d up. I don’t know a department in the country that doesn’t put an officer on admin leave after an OIS. It’s a normal procedure and it implies no wrongdoing on the involved officer’s part.

Jackasses….

I give up. In what way does the headline denigrate cops?

The headline is sensationalist, but then they all are but the article gets into the meat and potatoes of the perp shooting at the officer and refusing to pull over.

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Originally posted by Flash-LB:
I give up. In what way does the headline denigrate cops?

Because it selctively presents some of the facts to preserve a specific political agenda.

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The headline is sensationalist, but then they all are but the article gets into the meat and potatoes of the perp shooting at the officer and refusing to pull over.

A relatively small percentage of readers explore past the headline, journalists/editors know this. They will claim that the rationale for sensational headlines is to draw a reader to the full story, this is a lie.

Yes

Like "Karma" threads, almost every one of them have one or more "please include me" well after they have closed.

See the bait, take the hook, mindless fish.

The news has done this forever.

Anyone arguing against it is fooling themselves.

Maybe it was one of our Constitutional Law experts hurrying home to post about checkpoints and is upset HIS 1,2,4,5, and 21st Amendment Rights were being trampled by being asked to stop.

ANd media headline writers suck. Just like AR-15s are responsible for mass shootings. Not the person who pulled the trigger.

Technically, it is not wrong.

But just like I tell my girls, "That wasn't the whole truth, and you didn't have to say it that way."

Journalism 101 they teach writing headlines for accuracy but to also 'read' the 'interest' of the readers and 'feed' them what is of interest. So evidently the AP thinks that writing "cop shoots drunk guy" is more interesting to their readers than say, "play stupid games, win stupid prizes" or my personal favorite (stolen from Para) "ding dang diddly dead guy".

However, it is a real small town, it could even be personal, "Karen, your husband Ken is now dead because he was stupid, and he managed to shoot poor karl in the process." But leading with "local cop is a hero for ridding the world of a gun wielding drunk" is probably not going to win any Pulitzers either. The AP is just showing us that we are truly idiots. Kinda what sigmonkey already pointed out but I was in a mood.

And once you are a cop, you remain one forever even if you become a brain surgeon. How many times have you seen these headlines:
Former officer...
Ex-Cop.....
If I finally snap and go postal, the headline will read: Ex-Cop shoots everybody. Arsenal found in his home.
Neighbors say he lived quietly.

and the media also said that Michael Brown was shot after he was stopped for jaywalking..........

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Originally posted by architect:

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Originally posted by Flash-LB:
I give up. In what way does the headline denigrate cops?

Because it selectively presents some of the facts to preserve a specific political agenda.

And the vast majority of the public read headlines only and form their opinions from them.

Back in the 80s and 90s I used to read the news paper all the time.
For the most part the headline accurately reflected the story.

Now for me it may be a guess as to what the story is about from just the headline.

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Originally posted by 71 TRUCK:
Back in the 80s and 90s I used to read the news paper all the time.
For the most part the headline accurately reflected the story.

Now for me it may be a guess as to what the story is about from just the headline.

My wife insists on taking the local rag here (Houston Chronicle) and I can't stand it as every headline is an anti-conservative bash or liberal-agenda driven.

I'm sure if that's what you were looking for, it won't be hard to find an actual headline to fit that criteria.

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Originally posted by Flash-LB:
I give up. In what way does the headline denigrate cops?

The headline is sensationalist, but then they all are but the article gets into the meat and potatoes of the perp shooting at the officer and refusing to pull over.

If all you read is the Headline the takeaway is that the officer killed a driver for being drunk. BTW, there are people out there who ONLY read the headlines. The only good news is that this story was written before any specifics were released to the press. If that driver was black I expect that we will see that headline to read Black suspected drunk driver shot by Police.

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Originally posted by Keystoner:
I'm sure if that's what you were looking for, it won't be hard to find an actual headline to fit that criteria.

Well said. People see what they want to see based on their personal beliefs.

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Originally posted by Gustofer:

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Originally posted by architect:

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Originally posted by Flash-LB:
I give up. In what way does the headline denigrate cops?

Because it selectively presents some of the facts to preserve a specific political agenda.

And the vast majority of the public read headlines only and form their opinions from them.

I read that headline and decide that the cops encountered a drunk, pulled him over or the chase was one, one or the other, the drunk got pitted or stopped and whipped out a gun, then he got shot. I certainly wouldn't read that and decide the cops just decided to shoot him just because he was drunk as that's nuts.

You’re expecting too much if you EVER expect to see the mass hysteria media act with honor, honesty and provide anything of value.

Best thing to do is just ignore the bastards and expect them to act like the scum they are until the end of times.

Years ago I used to read every newspaper I could find and lots of news magazines.

Over time they went from reporting news to slanting news to proselytizing.

Slowly one by one, I stopped reading them.

They all blame the internet for losing business.
I really think the slide started when they stopped reporting.

This week is the anniversary of the Michael Brown incident. Washington Examiner has an article that shows that BLM is trying to spread lies.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...47058a124b239a6007f3

Sadly, the lie was told long enough that BLM became too entrenched to be outed as the lie it obviously was. It became the rallying cry for every thug that died as a result of police action. It was never about justice (not that it was deserved for trash like Brown); it was about division.