Saturday, August 09, 2014

Poorly written headlines

It amazes me that college educated people trained in journalism could write such crazy headlines.  Sometimes headlines make little sense until one reads the story mainly because of lack of punctuation to clear up meanings and emphasis.  But sometimes headlines are written is such a way as to be so obviously bad to all except the writer.  Such is one I came across a few minutes ago on Yahoo. 


 Mother of 3 kids killed in Philly carjacking dies


  This is shocking:  a dead person dies.  How in the world could that happen?  How can a person die twice? The scriptures and medical science agree that it is appointed unto men once to die.  I know many people claim to have died on the operating table and were brought back to life.  They may be in one sense dead but the reality was they didn't actually die.  I know that Tom Brady, who was shot 33 years ago by John Hinkley, just died of his wounds and his death is considered a murder ,  I doubt his killer will be charged with that crime any more than a person who committed an act of violence against another who "died" on the operating table and was revived would ever be charged with murder.  Can you image sitting of a jury where the murder victim was one of the witnesses? 
   Seriously, if you're dead you're dead.  Dead people cannot die at a later time. 
   I understand the headline writer was trying to convey to us that a mother of three from Philly was injured in a carjacking and later died of her injuries.  Would not it have been better to actually say that instead of giving the impression that a dead woman died again?
    

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