Police have arrested a suspect in the killing of a 16-year-old cheerleader who was found dead by her mother in her bathtub earlier this week in Edna, Texas.
The Edna Police Department located the suspect, identified as Rafael Romero, on Saturday in Schulenburg, Texas.
The Texas Rangers, who investigate major violent crime as part of the state’s Department of Public Safety, arrested Romero for capital murder — which makes the suspect eligible for the death penalty if convicted — and took him to the Jackson County Jail.
Part of the reason this headline is a grammatical dumpster fire is that they tried to cram every possible prurient detail into the headline itself, relevance be damned.
Like, how very fascinating that the fact that the victim was a cheerleader rated space right up in the headline. If they wanted to cram in biographical details, aspiring nurse was right there, but they didn’t go for that, and we all know why.
For-profit news is garbage
OP, I know it’s not your fault (probably) but that title makes it seem like the killer was found dead. If you had reformatted like: “Man arrested in connection with slain cheerleader foud dead in her mother’s bathtub” it could have been made a little more clear. It isn’t actually important to the story that the cheerleader was found in the bathtub and the title would have been much easier to understand without that bit of trivial information.
Per this community’s rules:
Post titles should be the same as the article used as source. Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.
I don’t see how either of my suggestions alters the meaning of the title or misrepresents the article. Changing the title, in this case, should be encouraged.
I feel the only reason that the information about the bathtub was included was to get people subconsciously excited about naked bodies. Aka Click bait.
I don’t disagree, but this community wants to avoid any editorializing with its submissions. So we should blame the author of the article, not OP.
I think you may be confused about what editorializing is. This isn’t changing tone or meaning, just clarifying.
Just so people know the correct definition of editorialize verb - to make comments or express opinions rather than just report the news.
Yeah I had to pause reading the headline too but didn’t want to editorialize it.
Do you know what the word editorialize means? I think you meant edit.
Yeah titles weird, but can’t be changing it to post it even if it’s to make more sense. Everyone would be claiming that to sensationalize every post. Article title was copied verbatim.
It’s probably just accidental, but when I see actual news headlines like this, I wonder if they were purposely meant to be wrong, so that it would confuse and catch your attention, driving engagement. I literally thought they had arrested a dead guy in a tub for my first two scans of the headline. And now I’ve commented on a link to it, etc. it’s just kinda hard to believe it’s accidental since they’re writing professionally, and have tools at their disposal that can prevent this like editors and software checkers.
That said I suppose the other explanation is that they’re using software to produce their stuff, and in such a quantity/so few employees that this kind of weirdness just slips through all the time.
Of course you can change it
Not according to the community rules:
Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.___ Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post. ___
“should”, so no. It is only deleted if it misrepresents. Editing the title here makes sense and is allowed.
If you allow an edit here, than I can argue my edit is a correction as well even though it’s misleading and biased.
It’s a slippery slope and there’s a reason it’s a rule in most places that want proper news discussions.
The rule says it can be edited as long as it doesn’t misrepresent the article. Arguably it should be changed as the original title is misleading clickbait.
Rules get broken and bent, it won’t be long until this rule changes to no edits to be in line with every other news discussion place.
You don’t edit article titles, sorry you’re just wrong here. Go bark up somewhere else and stop following me into other posts since I called you out.
In the pursuit of truth and honesty, no, no title should be edited when posting articles. Unless there’s an egregious error.
It’s also a community rule and just general good faithness for discussions.
Whether or not that headline is an egregious error, in and of itself, is arguable. I would say that making it less sensational is preferable to making it an exact copy.
The rule says it can be edited and it will not be deleted if the title represents the article properly.
And who gets to decide it represents it properly? A mods opinion, you know what removes doubt and bias, just not changing it.
But that’s not what the rule says. Yes, I guess a mod does, okay?
There is bias in the title as it misrepresents, so…
There’s not a bias, there’s a miscommunication.
What bias is it telling you?
Its the intent of the rule.
Fucking weird that the murderer ended up dead in the mom’s bathtub. I wonder if mom killed him?
/j
I know you’re joking but the inclusion of the genderd pronoun does make it more clear about who was found in the tub.
So wait did the killer get killerred?
No, title is bad. Alleged killer arrested, accused of killing girl (who was found dead in a bathtub.)
Read the article?
Frankly, if this is the title, the article can’t be worth the time.
This is a very stupid thing to say.
Why? If you can’t write a title, what makes you think you can write an entire article?
I concur!
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Slayyy
Not the time.
When else could I possibly make this joke? It’s the inappropriateness that’s the point!
