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barsmart t1_jado03t wrote

Reply to comment by burritoace in Woman dead after officer-involved shooting in Pittsburgh’s St. Clair neighborhood by byzvntine

Premise is faulty.

Local media is very soft when dealing with all EMS and Fire services, to the point of not even reporting on things like Brentwood losing their EMS.

Local media is also very soft on new car dealers because of how much they pay for ads on the local market.

Local media is soft on local media... Bill Hillgrove slams his car into a grocery store at 2x the DUI limit, walks in to pick up a prescription and you have to dig for the article because the local media is busy talking about how he still calls games at 82. Don Cannon freaks out on air and no other stations covered it. (Little factoid, that nights show is the only one missing from the WTAE archive.)

Nobody else? Disagree.

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barsmart t1_jad1b4e wrote

Reply to comment by burritoace in Woman dead after officer-involved shooting in Pittsburgh’s St. Clair neighborhood by byzvntine

Every single news headline written in the past 5 years has been done so with the goal of maximum penetration into social media. The media corps pay a lot of money to 'experts' on SEO, social media placement and trending.

If you put my headline next to the one that was used - I have no doubt that mine would get picked last most of the time.

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barsmart t1_jaaf472 wrote

Reply to Woman dead after officer-involved shooting in Pittsburgh’s St. Clair neighborhood by byzvntine

Remember folks, most everything you read nowdays is brought to you via advertising money. Including this reply.

What is the main objective of advertising? To change minds.

That said, the headline should read:

"Pittsburgh Area Woman Killed By Police After Allegedly Shooting At Them"

God damn it that is boring, factual and unlikely to cause clicks, shares and 500 comments that sell more ads after every reload.

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