None of it should be happening is right. I just get a skeezy feeling when articles use language they know will get people thinking one thing when they mean another.
None of it should be happening is right. I just get a skeezy feeling when articles use language they know will get people thinking one thing when they mean another.
It’s horrible, don’t get me wrong. I worry about my own little one, but the distinction is an order of magnitude of a difference in my head. Like the distinction between a troublemaker throwing a lit match in a trash can vs some maniac dousing a building in gasoline.
This is depressing, but it also bothers me that there’s such a large distinction between how the average person would picture a “school shooting” and what these articles are talking about. Is there a name for that in journalism?
Like, if someone told me “there was a school shooting at school X today”, like most people I would immediately picture someone walking into the building and firing indiscriminately at everyone. Not, “a couple of teens got in a fight in the parking lot, and one pulled out a gun”, or “someone shot at the school’s sign”. (Which are also horrible, but I feel like we need separate terms)
From the article:
According to the report, the most commonly known situations associated with such incidents included “escalation of dispute,” “drive-by,” “illegal activity,” “accidental firing of a weapon” and “intentional property damage.”
Who is influencing all these tech companies to be this greedy lately?
What an irredeemable monster.
I remember the early days of instant messaging where people would just jump in a chatroom and ask where others were from, then sit there in awe. “HONEY, I’m talking to someone from Ireland! HONEY! Come look!”
I remember the early days of instant messaging where people would just jump in a chatroom and ask where people were from, then sit there in awe. “HONEY, I’m talking to someone from Ireland! HONEY! Come look!”
I think whatever guides are given, they need to be simple.
I delayed making the jump to Lemmy for a while because every time I saw someone explain it, they got into all the complexities of the fediverse that weren’t really relevant to me yet, and it seemed like too much trouble.
Because a columbine type of school shooting is different than property damage.
And people writing these articles know that “some destructive teens did donuts in the school parking lot at night and shot the stop sign” isn’t what people think when they say that a “school shooting” has happened.