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Colorado teen shot in the face by town councilman after going to home to ask permission to take homecoming photos (www.nbcnews.com)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Get the fuck outta here...

Great, another article with a misleading headline,

I will agree its not explicitly misleading

You can't have it both ways is it misleading or not?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

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.