{"id":815,"date":"2007-02-25T10:20:42","date_gmt":"2007-02-25T14:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/02\/25\/crass-headlines\/"},"modified":"2007-02-25T10:21:27","modified_gmt":"2007-02-25T14:21:27","slug":"crass-headlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/02\/25\/crass-headlines\/","title":{"rendered":"Crass headlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am sorry that LaDainian Tomlinson\u2019s father was tragically and unexpectedly killed when his truck flipped over on a Texas highway last Friday afternoon.  With that said, why would ESPN run the following headline \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/nfl\/news\/story?id=2778157\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/nfl\/news\/story?id=2778157', '\u201cTomlinson says he\u2019s \u2018devastated\u2019 by father\u2019s death\u201d');\" target=\"new\">\u201cTomlinson says he\u2019s \u2018devastated\u2019 by father\u2019s death\u201d<\/a>?  Of course he is devastated, as most of us would be at the news of a parent\u2019s unexpected death.  Why not just report the news with a simple headline such as \u201cLaDainian Tomlinson\u2019s father killed in traffic accident\u201d and then use the \u201cdevastated\u201d quote within the story?  Maybe I am becoming a prude in my old age, but I am getting sick and tired of shock\/sensational journalism.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am sorry that LaDainian Tomlinson\u2019s father was tragically and unexpectedly killed when his truck flipped over on a Texas highway last Friday afternoon. With that said, why would ESPN run the following headline \u2013 \u201cTomlinson says he\u2019s \u2018devastated\u2019 by father\u2019s death\u201d? Of course he is devastated, as most of us would be at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/02\/25\/crass-headlines\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Crass headlines<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}