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Nine people injured in mass shooting at Ohio party held in Airbnb (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] Zamboni_Driver@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

First sentence of the article

"Nine people were injured by gunfire early Sunday at a large rental home where teenagers had gathered for a birthday party that was promoted on social media."

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I specifically said reading headlines like this. Not the articles.

Why doesn't the headline say 9 people shot? Why does the headline seem to try and discount the shooting aspect of it to just people being "injured" in relation to the shooting event?

It's that very specific editorial choice in description that I find interesting. While it may seem like a small difference, those types of phrasing decisions fundamentally change how a news story is perceived by casual readers skimming headlines, which is easily 90% of people and probably 99.9% of online readers on social media and link aggregators like reddit/lemmy/facebook/etc.