SUV runs through crowd at Christmas parade in Waukesha WI... (1 Viewer)

Blaming the car for an attack like this is like blaming a gun for a mass shooting. It’s pretty clear that a deranged person caused the problem, or else SUV manufacturers are going to have a massive recall to correct the “plow into crowds of people” feature on their vehicles.

Understanding this guys past (as cracked and colored as any mosaic art I’ve ever seen), it’s pretty clear, this dudes elevator didn’t reach the top floor.

Technically if you wanted to get into that you could argue that large class vehicles like that do much more damage than smaller more fuel efficient vehicles. It's quite analogous to hand guns vs high capacity rifles. So on a technical argument, the parallel could be made.

Maybe people will start calling for the banning of SUVs. *shrug*
 
Where did this blame it on the car line come from?
Feels like a bait n switch but I can’t figure out how/why

I find the whole discussion....ridiculous....this guy is obviously guilty of killing 6 people. Anything less than life in prison is unacceptable....everything else is just....unnecessary noise.....
 
Where did this blame it on the car line come from?
Feels like a bait n switch but I can’t figure out how/why

Maybe this

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:shrug: I'm just guessing though
 
I don't find anything particularly odd with the phrasing there.. do we believe people assume the 'SUV' was unoccupied or something because of the wording of that headline?

from the article...

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it's almost like they imply it did drive itself
 
from the article...

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it's almost like they imply it did drive itself
I guess I just think it's inherently figured by most everyone reading that that the SUV didn't act on it's own accord.. but with self driving cars being a thing maybe I'm wrong.
 
I love you guys, but this is a really weird position. "The media wants you to think the car acting on its own" is just... odd.

Nobody's saying that.

"What we know about [the tragedy] caused by a SUV."

"What we know about [the tragedy] caused by an assault rifle."

In both cases the headline is written in a way that shifts some blame from the individual to the object. Both cases can be solved by saying, "caused by [person] with/in [object]." Journalism is a space where precise language is absolutely necessary.

It's not about if someone was fooled into believing the SUV drove itself into those people. It's about the language professional writers and editors chose to use for a news article that they published. They know damn well the original headline was written ambiguously.
 
I don't find anything particularly odd with the phrasing there.. do we believe people assume the 'SUV' was unoccupied or something because of the wording of that headline?
It's extremely clunky of a headline. I don't think it was a decision to obfuscate anything about the story like some are making it out to be, but that reads really clunky, and the WaPo should do better just from a readability and not sounding stilted and off standpoint.
 

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