Teenage boy allegedly stabbed to death in front of lunchtime crowd at Melbourne shopping centre
www.abc.net.au
A 16-year-old boy is dead and a 15-year-old has been charged after an alleged fight in front of a school holiday lunch crowd in Melton.
  • Baku@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
    8·
    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.zoneEnglish
      3·
      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’

    • Norah - She/TheyEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Not in the title, but “allege” and it’s variants are used eight times in the article.

    • Duenan@aussie.zone
      1·
      2 months ago

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

      • Baku@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
        2·
        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.

  • Salvo@aussie.zoneEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    Saved you a click; It was Woodgrove in Melton, It wasn’t Highpoint (if it was Highpoint, it wouldn’t be News).