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To: Hot Tabasco

Read the title again.

“Homeowner Shoots Man Who Acted Violently & Charged FiancĂ©”

No caveats, no quotation marks, no mention that this information is solely hearsay from the man who killed the guy.

As a journalist, you can’t get away with writing a line like this anywhere in the article. If there are any caveats then every line must include hedgewords like “reportedly” or “according to...”.

Even worse, keep in mind that huge numbers of readers, probably most, will often only look at the title and make their judgement.


15 posted on 02/11/2023 4:33:19 AM PST by Mount Athos
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To: Mount Athos

AmmoLand is a magazine not a newspaper.


21 posted on 02/11/2023 4:48:18 AM PST by TStro (Better to die on your feet than live on your knees)
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To: Mount Athos

Thank you Athos. Too many folks blindly accept the premise that is proposed in the headline, which is misleading at best. What do we really know? That there was a dispute of some sort, involving a pickup that was parked at the armed homeowners house, and the intruder apparently was perceived to have threatened said homeowner. The homeowner allegedly warned the intruder several times to stop, but apparently did not, after which the homeowner shot and killed him. Police tried to revived the intruder with CPR, but he was pronounced dead on the scene. So in summary, the Homeowner was accosted over the ownership of a pickup, which was located at his residence, and after apparently feeling threatened by the intruder when he failed to respond to warnings to stop, shot him in the chest with a shotgun. He died at the location when police were unable to revive him.


35 posted on 02/11/2023 6:21:21 AM PST by silent majority rising
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