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#1232418
Topic
Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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moviefreakedmind said:

Let me help you out with an example. If I post a headline that says “Eight police officers shot dead in Washington, D.C.” and it turns out that that article was actually about the total number of fatal shootings of police in 2018, that’s much different than the way the headline sounded. I can’t believe I have to explain this. I don’t think that Frink is saying that he doesn’t care about the Chicago shootings because it wasn’t a huge mass shooting. He’s obviously just saying that you, most likely intentionally, made it seem like it was mass shooting when it wasn’t. It’s kind of frustrating to be mislead and fucked around with, don’t you agree? If I post a headline that says “81 killed in Oklahoma tornados” and it turns it’s actually just a total death toll over a period of time, with a different title than I posted, you’d probably be misled. I don’t get why you are pretending that this is an unreasonable thing to object to.

All of this.

The actual headline was perfectly clear. You changed it to make it less clear. And don’t think you did it by accident.

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#1232158
Topic
Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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If you had repeated the headline, which says “66 shot, 12 fatally, in Chicago weekend shootings,” then no objection.

You edited it and then object when I point out that you did so. “60 shot in Chicago” is technically correct (assuming it was 60 at the time and later upped to 66, which is neither here nor there), but completely misleading at the same time.