Prosecutors have charged a Metropolitan Police officer with murder after he shot rapper Chris Kaba in London last year.

Prosecutors have charged a Metropolitan Police officer with murder after he shot rapper Chris Kaba in London last year.

  • Landrin201@lemmy.mlEnglish
    218·
    10 months ago

    I disagree that this is unambiguous, I was also confused reading this headline. It’s odd wording. It may be technically correct but that doesn’t mean it’s unambiguous.

      • FaceDeer@kbin.social
        61·
        10 months ago

        Or “shot dead an unarmed black man”. Three additional characters would have fixed this. I’ve long been frustrated by the journalistic style of removing every possible word from headlines. We’re no longer reading these things printed on dead trees, there’s no extra ink being spent or space wasted.

        • Polar@lemmy.ca
          3·
          10 months ago

          Many apps or websites cut titles off, though. It’s important to keep them short.

          I wish more people followed proper journalistic formats. Frustrates me when the first sentence is supposed to have everything you need to know - who, what, where, when, why, how - but instead these gen Z journalists think they should bury the details 5 paragraphs deep.

          The proper way to write an article is to give the reader everything they need to know from the first sentence, and then expand in detail with each following paragraph, from most important to least.

    • naught@sh.itjust.works
      45·
      10 months ago

      “Dead” and “unarmed” are adjectives and if they were being used like you thought, they should have a comma between them. I agree that it’s potentially vague, but if you read it in your BBC broadcaster voice it should help

      • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        10 months ago

        It’s ambiguous. Adjectives don’t need a comma like that, especially when there are two. You don’t say “look at that small, red, fire hydrant”, you just say “look at that small red fire hydrant” (and technically, you could call “fire” an adjective there too).