• skuzz
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    1 month ago

    The media seems to have no standard on using terms and switches them willy-nilly to net the better headline.

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      1 month ago

      It’s not switched willy-nilly though, it’s strongly correlated with race. The “better headline” is “dangerous black perpetrator prone to crime” and “foolish white boy that looks like you and just made a mistake of youth”. Appealing to the racism is what makes the headline “better” (i.e., more affirming to the majority readership).