{"id":32267,"date":"2011-01-09T13:08:46","date_gmt":"2011-01-09T18:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=32267"},"modified":"2011-09-27T14:04:24","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T19:04:24","slug":"two-news-stories-about-gabrielle-giffords-shooting-and-husband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/01\/09\/two-news-stories-about-gabrielle-giffords-shooting-and-husband\/","title":{"rendered":"Two News Stories about Gabrielle Giffords’ Shooting…and Husband"},"content":{"rendered":"

As most of you probably know, yesterday Representative Gabrielle Giffords, of Arizona, was one of 18 people shot at a public event yesterday. Elliott J. went online to find more information and came across this piece from Fox News:<\/p>\n

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The piece has now been expanded<\/a> somewhat, with a photo of Giffords added, the photo of her husband pushed to the bottom of the page, and the title changed.<\/p>\n

When I was googling looking for the Fox story, I came upon this from the website of the Orlando Sentinel<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I get that the point of a title is to draw people in and give them information that might make the topic seem interesting or relevant to them. And I guess NASA has a center in Florida, so maybe being married to an astronaut has special resonance there.<\/p>\n

But really: a woman had a person walk up to her in a crowd and shoot her in the head, also shooting other people and killing some of them. I would hope that, even if she weren’t a member of Congress, that in and of itself would be sufficient material for a headline, regardless of who the victim’s husband was.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/strong> Kat P. sent in another example from the Galveston County Daily News<\/a>. <\/em>The headline reads: “Wife of shuttle commander shot during rampage.”<\/p>\n

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As most of you probably know, yesterday Representative Gabrielle Giffords, of Arizona, was one of 18 people shot at a public event yesterday. Elliott J. went online to find more information and came across this piece from Fox News: The piece has now been expanded somewhat, with a photo of Giffords added, the photo of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,2088,272,129],"class_list":["post-32267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gender","tag-gender-marriagefamily","tag-marriagefamily","tag-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32267"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39932,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32267\/revisions\/39932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}