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This was my first thought. Would this article have been news if it said teens crash mommy’s Porsche into concrete wall? Maybe this is news because the Porsche m
by jtokoph 8y ago
This was my first thought. Would this article have been news if it said teens crash mommy’s Porsche into concrete wall? Maybe this is news because the Porsche may not have burst into flames.
- Cshelton 8y agoExactly. There are thousands of instances where the article is just a local news of "teen crashes parents sports car", where the picture is typically a Ford Mustang. Yet, the make and model of the vehicle is very rarely in the headline. Also, there are a ton of ICE crashes where the vehicle catches fire, but, it is also not news. Any rupture to the fuel tank has a high probability of catching fire and it happens so much that it never makes a news article.
- danso 8y agoThis story would not be news on HN for any other carmaker (and shouldn’t be for Tesla, IMO). But generally, local news orgs do cover fatal crashes, especially with multiple young victims.