• Baku@aussie.zoneOP
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    2 months ago

    Side note: it really irks me that almost every ABC article has “allegedly” somewhere in the title.

    I get they’re all paranoid about being sued, but this isn’t alleged, a kid was ACTUALLY stabbed. That can’t be disputed, and you can’t be sued for defamation for claiming that something that actually happened, happened.

    For some people it’s “POV:”. For me it’s “allegedly this situation that very obviously happened, happened”.

    • zero_gravitas@aussie.zone
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      edit-2
      2 months ago

      The headline on the article page is (currently) “Boy, 16, fatally stabbed at shopping centre in Melbourne’s west”, so I don’t know why the share-preview headline has ‘allegedly’

    • Duenan@aussie.zone
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      2 months ago

      For legal reasons they have to use alleged until court proceedings make a judgement officially or it becomes defamatory.

      • Baku@aussie.zoneOP
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        2 months ago

        How is it defamatory? It’s not defamatory. It doesn’t accuse a specific person of stabbing anyone, and a situation can’t be defamation. Unless shopping centres or suburbs can sue for defamation, in which case, they still couldn’t, because it objectively happened.