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Also sweet that saving someone's life and therefore missing a job interview (which was probably hard to get in the first place because of his background) and have that called SKIPPING. Eff you very much, CBS
Correct - the man served time, paid for his mistake because prison ain't summer camp, but sure, let's hang that ex-con tag on him for all to see. F*****g hell.
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Systemic racism at its finest. They damn the poor man with faint praise. It's actually (horribly) cleverly done, the way the topic is complimentary, but the wording they use belies that. If his skin were lighter, this-and any other right-leaning publication- would replace "ex-con"with "local man with troubled past" who was recently released from a "facility" who RELUCTANTLY missed his interview in order to perform some heroics
I’m pretty confident the headline would not be replaced with your suggestion partly because that’s ridiculously long for a headline.
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In fairness, the purpose of identifying him as an ex-con was precisely to encourage people to see ex-cons as more than merely ex-cons.
Or...they could have identified him by his given name, THEN mentioned his criminal past if they absolutely had to. He is Aaron first, "ex-con" second.
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i think they maybe wanna show than an ex-con can do good deeds even risking his futur by missing his interview for this act
On the flip side, the title makes a point that not ex-cons are bad people.
It would have been nice if they had to use the "ex-con" term, to emphasize how change is possible. CBS missed a golden opportunity to show that people can be reformed, instead of using as a derogatory way.
How did they use it in a derogatory way? The way I read it it’s meant to be inspirational like “this man that just came from this really bad placed turned things around and did something amazing by saving someone’s life”.
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There will always be people who will only consider your past and not what you made from it.... Screw them - Aaron you rock!
So what happened here that Bradlee appears to have missed is that “ex-con” will attract more people to the story meaning more clicks and more popularity.
Society continues to extract *justice* long after the sentence is served.
Because, unless they are someone well known like a celebrity or politician, names do not go into headlines. They go into the subheader - the line just underneath. Something taught in every first Journalism class. The headline is meant to draw the reader to the article, ad if the person is not recognisable by name alone then a detail or quick description is used to draw the reader to garner a familiarity or sympathy with the subject.
Thank you. I am so tired of people running their mouths about this when they don’t know what they’re talking about.
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This happened 4 years ago. He was on a bus and saw the accident happen, got out, asked the driver if he was going to help, driver said no, and if Mr. Tucker got off, he would not be allowed back on. He did miss that job interview, but he was offered clothes, and help to prepare for other interviews, and a GoFundMe page was set up for him that, as of the time the article was written in July of 2017, had raised over $23K. I hope he got a really good job!!
Saying ex-con lets us know that not all people who have been in jail are horrible people.
Actually, ex-con is critical to the story. A former criminal risks losing a job when he helped a crash victim. It's supposed to be a feel good story. But, you're right, the caption would have been better as "Ex-con, Aaron Tucker..."
If he has served time in prison, then it is accurate to call him an "ex con". Presumably the point was to say, No one is irredeemable.
"His name is Aaron Tucker, Motherfu**er!", i really needed the bit at the end
Me too. But from what I know of journalism, it's their editor and even all the way to the CEO of the publication who shape the tone of the articles, ultimately
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I also hate how they put “skips job interview” like he meant to skip it
To an extent saying man saves car crash victim would have taken away some of the impact of his actions which need recognition. I do agree should have used the word "Missed" rather than skipped. It's like having those "First woman to circumnavigate the planet. Nah uhh. It's 25th PERSON to circumnavigate the planet. What the woman got to do with it.
I actually think the original title shows he is more of a hero than if they started his name. If a non-con missed an interview, I wouldn't think as much of it but being an ex-con, it's hard to find work, so it shows just how much more he sacrificed for another human. Selfless.
"Ex-con skips job interview.." who the fck cares- he saved someones life and as an EX-con he did his time, so aplause to him and say some nice and kind words!
When folks at FiveThirtyEight asked 8,500 internet commenters why do they do what they do, the answers, people gave a wide range of answers.
"Our respondents' reasons for commenting mirror the results of a recent survey of 600 news commenters by Talia Jomini Stroud and her colleagues at the University of Texas at Austin's Engaging News Project," Christie Aschwanden wrote in FiveThirtyEight. "In their survey, the top three reasons that people gave for commenting were 'to express an emotion or opinion,' 'to add information' or 'to correct inaccuracies or misinformation.'"
Certain stories, however, generate a disproportionate number of comments, and after years of being on the receiving end of comments, Aschwanden has formed a theory: the subjects most likely to elicit impassioned responses are those that feel personal to the reader (a real-life experience with the subject has made them feel like an expert) and those that hit on identity in some way.
"[My insight is] based on something a newspaper reporter in Boulder told me many years ago," Aschwanden explained. "Back then, readers were still mailing letters to the editor, and they had a seemingly endless appetite to debate two things: who was at fault in conflicts between cars and bikes and whether dogs should be allowed to run unleashed on city trails."
To test this theory, Aschwanden asked the people who took the survey about the circumstances that made them most likely to comment.
"The answers lent at least some support to the bikes-and-dogs theory. But respondents’ reasons were more complex than my one, unified theory; commenters were also driven by a desire to provide their own information or to argue against an idea they disagreed with."
At the end of the day, commenters want the same thing as us publishers — to be heard. So if they have something to say, we're glad they can do so on our platform.
Publisher's AGM: "Now let's not forget everybody, those academic texts all need minuscule revisions before the start of the university year, so that we can brand them as a new edition. We don't want to loose out on any sales at $300 per copy to other students selling the copies the no longer use!"
Sometimes I wondered if it was indeed improv and not scripted coz they did so well on the fly. Especially Ryan.
PoOr conservatives. They sure aren't wanting to comply these days!
My aunt caught covid from the pastor at a small church meeting. Less than two months later, she, her husband and her youngest daughter were dead. And people don't understand why I don't go anywhere.
Me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, uhhhhhhhh...me.
Kid (about 14yr old) said to me after first lock down 'in the future, there will be no snow days, only work from home days'. I had a little cry
Nah,glasses can be sexy AF...edited to fix stupid autocorrect...
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Ok, how is that I can't get through reading 2 term papers but I got through all 100 of these. /sarcasm
I have barely started working and it’s almost 10;00 lol. Oh well
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And you felt you had to contribute your hate to the pile? Well done, you!
Load More Replies... Ok, how is that I can't get through reading 2 term papers but I got through all 100 of these. /sarcasm
I have barely started working and it’s almost 10;00 lol. Oh well
Load More Replies... And you felt you had to contribute your hate to the pile? Well done, you!
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