“Court Docs: Martin Had Drugs in System”
This headline by Slate has really bothered me.
Court Docs: Martin Had Drugs in System; Shooting “Avoidable”
Those are the two early takeaways from hundreds of pages of evidence made public Thursday.
Ah, yes, he had traces of marijuana in his system — something that neither side has considered relevant to the current case, but which Slate decides to highlight anyway. These kinds of things really bother me — he took ‘drugs’ therefore he was ‘dangerous’ and killing him was okay? The defence realise its irrelevance; the reporter realises its irrelevance — so why does Slate decide to pick an inflammatory headline despite all of the above?
(Source: Slate)
