• Victor Villas@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    CBC readjusted title to “mass killing”.

    In fact, the incident was not a shooting. Later Thursday, Staff Sgt. Jeff Pilon, one of the leads of the homicide unit, told CBC there was no shooting on Berrigan Drive.

    A shooting inside a townhouse is not what most people would understand as a mass shooting anyway.


    Completely unrelated, congrats to CBC for using OSM instead of GoogleMaps. First time I’ve noticed it.

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      8 months ago

      They changed the title because it apparently wasn’t a shooting, not because of potential connotations of “mass shooting.”

      A previous version of this story called the incident a mass shooting, based on an interview with police Chief Eric Stubbs. In fact, it was not a shooting. The cause of death has not yet officially been released.

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        8 months ago

        I also said so myself?

        told CBC there was no shooting

        I’ll edit my comment to fix this ambiguity.

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      Is it fucked up that I’m glad it wasn’t a shooting for political reasons, but also sad because anything less than a shooting was probably a hundred times more painful and terrifying for the victims?

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      8 months ago

      Thanks for the heads up, I’ve edited the title to reflect the change.