I'm a news junkie without a doubt. I hit the major news sites multiple times a day to catch up on what's going on in the world. Yesterday I had to take pause at what was the most likely the most immature headline I had ever seen from CNN:
Incest dungeon girl reunited with family
The date line for the story was 12:40pm EDT on 6/10/08. I refreshed the page this morning and it updated to something better:
Incest dungeon teen wants to see ocean
Was this written by a 4th grader? This is CNN, not News of the World. Incest Dungeon Teen? C'mon.
In contrast, MSNBC carried the same story with a different headline:
Austrian dungeon captive reunites with family
A far better, classier, humane headline for a story so horrific that we cannot phathom what this person has been through. We're angry. We're sad. Whatever is going to happen to these victims?
MSNBC chose to side with the young woman. Referring to her as a "captive", which she was. CNN choose to give her a label, "Incest Dungeon Girl/Teen".
It's the end of the school year. Hopefully whoever writes these headlines for CNN will be held back for another year of 4th grade.
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