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BBC's actual headline: "Lapsus$: GTA 6 hacker handed indefinite hospital order" The editorialized reframing of the headline is a bit subtle but still incredibl
by nicklecompte 3y ago
BBC's actual headline: "Lapsus$: GTA 6 hacker handed indefinite hospital order"
The editorialized reframing of the headline is a bit subtle but still incredibly dishonest. An indefinite psychiatric order is simply not the same as a life sentence.
- switch007 3y agoThe BBC regularly updates headlines after publication (A/B testing for clicks) so it's possible it was the BBC, not the poster.
- dang 3y agoUpdated now. Thanks for catching this.
- switch007 3y agoNo worries. It’s so common that the UK sub on reddit has a bot or something to tag the submission as an altered headline…!
- nicklecompte 3y agoWow - I checked the Internet Archive and you are correct, the "sentenced to life in hospital prison" headline was used when the article was originally published. I stopped reading BBC a while ago because of their sloppy standards but this is unusually bad. FWIW in this case I would suppose the BBC online editor was careless and fixed their mistake, versus "A/B testing for clicks" generally. If it was A/B testing, the "A" headline went too far: there's a fine line between clickbait and outright lying.
- omoikane 3y agoThe British way of saying this is "being economical with the truth". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economical_with_the_truth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economical_with_the_truth
- switch007 3y agoIndeed I didn’t mean to imply they don’t also fix and tweak for legitimate editorial reasons
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- gwern 3y agoIt is still pretty bad. When you look up old famous crimes, they're usually in there basically for life. Leaving aside cases like the 'I don't like Mondays' girl (44 years and still in there; temporal lobe lesion, possible sociopathy) or the pre-Columbine shooting you probably don't remember recently profiled in NYer (paranoid schizophrenia; https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/12/04/what-happens-to-a-school-shooters-sister https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/12/04/what-happens-t... ) where they had regular guilty pleas, even someone like Reagan's shooter only just got out a few years ago after his family lobbied & paid a fortune for decades. As my old professor liked to say, you had to be crazy to do an insanity defense, because usually you'd be worse off if you won that defense than if you lost another defense.
- lern_too_spel 3y agoEven the BBC headline is sensational. It implies that the indefinite detention is for a GTA 6 hack, and many people in these comments jumped to that conclusion. "GTA 6 hacker" is used in the headline to identify the person, not to explain the detention.