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Consider when a terrorist drove a truck into a Christmas market: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Christmas%20market%20killed%20with%20car https://www.goo
by markstos 5y ago
Consider when a terrorist drove a truck into a Christmas market:
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Christmas%20market%20killed%20with%20car https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Christmas%20market%20k...
Most headlines were like "Lorry kills 12 at Christmas Market", like there was a killer truck on the loose.
Here's an alternate framing of an article where a car is a fatal weapon:
"Driver plows car into pedestrians at German bus stop, killing one"
https://www.dw.com/en/driver-plows-car-into-pedestrians-at-german-bus-stop-killing-one/a-46822959 https://www.dw.com/en/driver-plows-car-into-pedestrians-at-g...
The lead clarifies that "no assumptions should be made at this point".
It's factual that a man drove a truck into a Christmas market and another person drove into a pedestrian at a bus stop. That can be reported without an assumption of guilt without re-framing the story as if the cars drove themselves.