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| Rogue Posts: 4680/11918 |
Originally posted by Cyro Xero Hehe, I know. I was just kidding around. |
| Cyro Xero Posts: 1369/1779 |
I wasn't exactly referring to Stitch. Kinda forgot he was hispanic. |
| Ryan Posts: 1590/1748 |
Originally posted by Elara To be fair, 'the media' covers a HUGE range of... pretty much everything. To lose respect for it from a single headline on a website is a bit much. But I do agree, that headline is whacked up... |
| Elara Posts: 4880/9736 |
It's bad enough the accident happened... but to put that up in the headline... seriously, I just lost even more respect for the media. What happened to integrity and common decency? |
| Rogue Posts: 4665/11918 |
Originally posted by Cyro Xero *Looks at Stitch* I'd say he's got plenty of attention right now. Anyway... |
| Cyro Xero Posts: 1360/1779 |
.....because gay hispanics need some attention, too. |
| Kyoku kun Posts: 987/1329 |
Seriously.. I understand wanting to get peoples attention, but that headline is just insulting. |
| StickMan Posts: 181/185 |
Really? They actually put that out? That's... I'm at a loss for words.
Protip: Use better judgment. |
| Rogue Posts: 4660/11918 |
As an aspiring journalist who's worked in print before, I do agree, Vulkar, that a headline is designed to attract the eye, but damn... really?
It's completely taken out of context. While it's true that he was gay and Hispanic, did those things really need to get mentioned? That would be like someone taking a story about a typical teenaged-male and put up a headline like "Masturbating, porn-loving virgin wins the lottery!" or something of the like. And like you mentioned they made it look like he was pedophile at that. They haven't specified the age of the person who was on the receiving end of his messages, but come on! Either way, while the guy was acting very irresponsibly I can't help but feel sorry for him especially with stories like this one going out: http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-me-engineer17-2008sep17,0,6452601.story You might notice that the original site I posted copy-pasted this article on their own website, cut off the bit describing his personal tragedies and then put up that headline. |
| Bitmap Posts: 5970/7838 |
Holy shit.
My jaw just dropped. |
| Lord Vulkas Mormonus Posts: 3125/4541 |
Yeah, but honesstly, who DIDN'T look at the article after seeing the name? 
Titles are made to sell headlines, fact of life. Enjoy. Taht said, if the train engineer kills 25 people so that he can text young children(which sounds a bit pedophiliac), then we know that something is wrong. |
| Xeoman Posts: 7617/11757 |
A little uncalled for? Jeeze.  |
| Rogue Posts: 4659/11918 |
As some of you may or may not know L.A. had a really bad train accident recently. So far 25 people have died with over 100 injured with some in critical condition.
It was announced today that it's been confirmed by some teenagers and his phone records that the conductor was texting just before the accident and missed a signal which caused the Metrolink to be struck by an oncoming Union Pacific. One of the headlines that made it online today: 
"Gay hispanic train engineer crashes train while texting young boys, kills 25" ... Source: http://www.newsnet14.com/2008/09/gay-hispanic-train-engineer-crashes-train-while-texting-young-boys-kills-25/ |
