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Can we change the title to 'attempts suicide' because this is disturbing until you read the article?
by stagas 7y ago
Can we change the title to 'attempts suicide' because this is disturbing until you read the article?
- warent 7y agoI don't think the title is sensationalist or inaccurate. Attempting suicide could be any number of things. Here, he actually shot himself in the chest. That's pretty wild.
- stagas 7y agoI understand, but it seems clickbait to not convey the information that the judge survived the shot.
- goodside 7y agoIt doesn’t to me. Had he killed himself it would have been described as lethal. It’s standard practice to describe only what’s known, even when doing so is at odds with how the average person would characterize the event — it may well have been his intention to cause a spectacle without taking his life, so it’s premature to describe it as an “attempted suicide”.
- happytoexplain 7y agoI agree with the parent insofar as the title is misleading. I immediately assumed he had died from the title. It's heavily implicit. I also think it's pretty clear that it was a suicide attempt, and, though I could be wrong, the article itself describes it as a suicide attempt, so they've already made that judgement when choosing the title. Of course, regardless of whether or not it was a suicide attempt, the information that he didn't kill himself could be conveyed in the title.
- orpheline 7y agoReading the article wasn't disturbing? FWIW I assumed from the title that he hadn't killed himself; if he had, the title certainly would have stated it.
- perl4ever 7y agoThe implication is that he tried to kill himself, and the absence of the phrase "attempted suicide" implies he succeeded.