  Andylinn Member Username: Andylinn Post Number: 257 Registered: 04-2006 |
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs .dll/article?AID=/20061129/NEW S01/611290407&GID=wHWxCF5kLlMz az5GhRt7KYRctIVIZ+YEG8tp2sinPO E%3D This article is a perfect example... It really upsets me... not that i'm not used to it, but it's still irksome... This article's title reads: Detroit: No clothes, no tongue: Man lands in hospital why the hell didn't the authors more accurately write: "Sterling heights man leaps from second floor window, most likely bit off his own tongue" oh yeah, I forgot, because that would make detroit sound bad... instead, from the title, we have to make it appear that some mugger stole a mans clothes and brutally cut off his tongue because that sells papers... | ||
Pffft Member Username: Pffft Post Number: 1124 Registered: 12-2003 |
After reading this story, is whether or not the city of Detroit looks bad, the only thing that interests you? It's kind of a narrow view of life... | ||
Jtw Member Username: Jtw Post Number: 102 Registered: 06-2005 |
are you serious? in fact, it's your extrapolations from the title that made you feel the way you do. if that's what you got from the article, it sounds like YOU are the one with the bias against detroit. the title is just 4 words of fact, and there's nothing bad about detroit in the article. anything beyond that is an assumption, good or bad. | ||
Spitty Member Username: Spitty Post Number: 500 Registered: 07-2004 |
I'm with Andylinn on this one... it was the teaser yesterday before the news and they just said they found a naked man with no tongue, then "more at 11." and they showed a Detroit Police car. I didn't even bother to watch the actual story, but now that I see that he jumped out a window, it bugs me even more the way the news left so much to the imagination. I imagine there are even more people who didn't ever find out how it happened, but now they just think that if you go to Detroit, you'll get your tongue cut off and be left naked on the east side. | ||
Supersport Member Username: Supersport Post Number: 10931 Registered: 10-2003 |
I agree, yesterday's article made it sound like the guy was mugged, stripped down, and had his tongue cut off all in Detroit. Now it appears his stupid ass fell out a window naked and bit his own tongue off. All I can say to that is, we've all been there.  | ||
Lilpup Member Username: Lilpup Post Number: 1499 Registered: 06-2004 |
how about the story linked in the sidebar about a Muslim in Warrendale claiming he was victim of a hate crime gang beating while others claim only one person pummled him bloody in a next door neighbor dispute ~ http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs .dll/article?AID=/20061129/NEW S01/611290312 | ||
Supersport Member Username: Supersport Post Number: 10933 Registered: 10-2003 |
The only thing I believe so far in that story is that the DPD was called 5 times before they showed up. | ||
Andylinn Member Username: Andylinn Post Number: 259 Registered: 04-2006 |
no matter what side you're on, this story is just 1 example of 10,000 stories a year (number estimated) that feast on detroit's bad image to gain an audience... it just sucks... screw that... and for the record, pffft and jtw, though I don't claim to be any "more" a detroit lover than anyone else here (why else would we all be on detroityes! all the time) I am AS MUCH a lover of this city as everyone else here. i'm 23, was raised here, and will live here for the rest of my life... (whether I bite off my tongue and jump from a window at 24, or live to be 128...) - sorry, bad joke... Speaking of which, I just got a new license plate as a gift that I want to show off on the Detroit connections page when I get the chance to use my camera... | ||
Rustic Member Username: Rustic Post Number: 2976 Registered: 10-2003 |
SS, bite your tongue talkin bout the DPD like that! | ||
Dougw Member Username: Dougw Post Number: 1455 Registered: 11-2003 |
I hate gratuitous Detroit-bashing as much as the next guy, but the reporting here does not really bother me at all, and seems fair. The title only says "Detroit" in small letters above the title, like all of the other local-section stories. The circumstances are bizarre enough that naturally it is going to get played up a bit, no matter the location. | ||
Pffft Member Username: Pffft Post Number: 1125 Registered: 12-2003 |
Oh come on, does loving Detroit mean you go crazy whenever a story about a presumed Detroit crime is published? The city is bigger than that, and the people who really care for it don't have time to whine over such things. There are other issues in life other than, did a newspaper story make Detroit look bad. | ||
Dougw Member Username: Dougw Post Number: 1456 Registered: 11-2003 |
Actually, the MSNBC headline is a bit more sensational: Naked Man Found Wandering Street, Tongue Cut Out | ||
Dougw Member Username: Dougw Post Number: 1457 Registered: 11-2003 |
Still, nothing can hold a candle to this headline: Wild Dog Drags Human Leg from Abandoned Pickle Factory | ||
Pffft Member Username: Pffft Post Number: 1126 Registered: 12-2003 |
Dougw...the Pickle Factory headline was amazing. Then there's the classic New York Post: "Headless Body in Topless Bar" | ||
Pffft Member Username: Pffft Post Number: 1127 Registered: 12-2003 |
Ohhhh how could they make New York look so bad! Those meanies! | ||
Karl Member Username: Karl Post Number: 5200 Registered: 09-2005 |
Sounds like the media treats President Bush and Detroit in the same manner. | ||
Chitaku Member Username: Chitaku Post Number: 955 Registered: 03-2006 |
Give me a break Karl, you are obviously trying to get a reaction with that moronic comment | ||
Goat Member Username: Goat Post Number: 9014 Registered: 10-2003 |
I get angry when someone spells angry "anrgy". | ||
Burnsie Member Username: Burnsie Post Number: 766 Registered: 11-2003 |
Andylinn, haven't you heard of the term "dateline?" The 4th edition of the American Heritage Dictionary states that it is "A phrase at the beginning of a newspaper or magazine article that gives the date and the place of the origin of the article." The Free Press has merely combined the dateline with the local geographic category that the article fits. "DETROIT" is simply part of the template for any news blurb from Detroit. If it had happened elsewhere, that locale's name would have been above the title. See this example: "OAKLAND COUNTY Troy man is ordered out of home" http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs .dll/article?AID=/20061130/NEW S03/611300351/1005/NEWS | ||
Dds Member Username: Dds Post Number: 42 Registered: 10-2006 |
Looks like he already did... | ||
Dougw Member Username: Dougw Post Number: 1458 Registered: 11-2003 |
(I admit that I embellished the pickle factory headline a bit from what is actually on the Channel 4 site, but my version of the headline is still accurate.) | ||
Rhymeswithrawk Member Username: Rhymeswithrawk Post Number: 177 Registered: 11-2005 |
The Free Press has merely combined the dateline with the local geographic category that the article fits. "DETROIT" is simply part of the template for any news blurb from Detroit. If it had happened elsewhere, that locale's name would have been above the title. See this example: "OAKLAND COUNTY Troy man is ordered out of home" http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs .dll/article?AID=/20061130/NEW S03/611300351/1005/NEWS Bingo. I wrote the headline. And, as someone who is smitten with the heart of the Mitten, I can tell you no malice was intended. The story happened IN DETROIT, that's why it says Detroit in what we call a "kicker" or "label." If a Detroit man had done this in Sterling Heights, the label would have said Sterling Heights instead. |
