Community Notes is the editor Reuters fired to cut costs
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Graphene-OS@reddit
I’m not usually one to defend Reuters or the extreme double standards in Western press, but in this case I think the headline is fine and the community note is itself misleading.
There were two separate incidents. Suleiman first attacked a Muslim acquaintance over a personal dispute. He then took the metro to Golders Green and stabbed two random Jews dressed in traditional orthodox Jewish attire. The second incident has the most public interest because it was seemingly a hate crime targeting two strangers for their race/religion. But the community note implies that it was a single attack, and that the two Jewish victims were not targeted for being Jewish since he also stabbed Muslim.
Say the identities were different: a far-right Christian man got in an argument with a Christian friend at his home and stabbed him; he then traveled to a Muslim neighborhood, charged at an elderly Muslim man standing at a bus stop and stabbed him in the neck, then attacked and stabbed a 34yo Muslim man as he was leaving a mosque. Would it be wrong to have a headline “UK man appears in court over stabbing of two Muslim men in London?” I don’t think so.
If the headline was instead “UK man appears in court over stabbing of three men in London,” that would be journalistic malpractice and it would be rightly seen as a deliberate cover-up of anti-Muslim violence.
ShamScience@reddit
Is the problem maybe that the headline is too short and incomplete? That is always an issue with titles, but it used to be a much harsher limit with print media's finite page space. Presumably it shouldn't be such an issue with digital media, though that's not my field. As an amateur, I can't see any obvious disadvantage to changing the headline from "UK man appears in court over stabbing of two Jewish men in London", to something like "UK man appears in court over stabbing of two Jewish men, one other, in London". Two extra words feels like it gives a more complete picture at virtually no cost.
Paradoxjjw@reddit
Except the headline doesn't mention the muslim man at all. Not even that, it doesn't mention the muslim victim until halfway through the article, offhandedly remarking on it as an afterthought and then it goes back to trying to paint this as a deliberate antisemitic attack.
Penchant4Prose@reddit
You mean like the actual headline, which actually did deliberately omit one of the actual victims in order to push a certain narrative?
1337-cleaner@reddit
I can't believe that dude actually wrote that with a straight face. He'd rather get a Daily Mail headline out there than the truth. So fucking weird
Pure-Drawer-2617@reddit
The accurate headline would depend on how many charges he’s facing in court. Is he charged with 3 stabbings, or two stabbings?
joeshmo101@reddit
My guess is that he's getting charged with all 3, but two have the possibility of being hate crimes and I reason that the prosecutor probably wants to pursue them separately.
Penchant4Prose@reddit
They're all currently being charged as attempted murders, so that doesn't make sense either.