What Makes for News?
Screenshot: New York Post news article headline (click onto image to view enlargement). Someone had recently sent me a link to an online news article, published within an out of state tabloid newspaper, with a blaring headline about how a “[h]omeless shooting suspect …” had been taken into custody after being accused of killing three of their family members in a neighboring state. These murders are, as with all murders, senseless and terrible as well as tragic to be sure. No argument there. None whatsoever. Yet, the headline for this particular news story got me thinking once again on a subject I have quietly thought about from time to time previously, including after having seen headlines and news stories numerous times over the years about someone living unhoused, aka living homeless, who had been accused of one criminal act or another, whether major or minor in nature, including some published in local as well as statewide newspapers and also featured on TV News here in Vermont How...