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Friday, September 12, 2008

Marriage Gone Bad Ends In Hit Job Arrest

For a moment there, I thought we could have had a real political scandal here in Janesville.

Other than a somewhat misleading on-line title, “Police say man wanted councilman killed,” and sub-title in the printed version,”Police say man wanted councilman, girlfriend killed” the Gazette story presents a strong undercurrent of poor timing and questionable judgment by all the parties involved. The councilman Rashkin is a mortgage insurance broker.

"Police say man wanted mortgage broker killed." Now there's a story title most of us can relate to.
JG Excerpt:
According to the release, there is no information the intended murders were related to Rashkin's position on the city council.
No juicy political scandal to dissect. No partisanship to complain about. Thank goodness nobody was killed. Check out the comment section at the paper, there's enough to keep a rumor mill running for weeks.

Today, the Janesville Gazette reinforces the same storyline with misleading title Councilman comes to grips with enormity of threat.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Can you explain with better detail why those article titles are misleading? You've lost me on this one. Just curious.

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