Friday, February 27, 2009

"Arrest of Asbo 'suicide' woman"

why give the monetary cost of her suicide attempts to the ambulance drivers?

4 comments:

Skilletsnail said...

They didn't tell the ambulance drivers the monetary cost, it was just the court that was told that(and apparently BBC).

courtle said...

I know. I was more musing on the effect printing the cost of her attempted suicides in the article would have on the reader's opinion of her. Also, I find it tasteless to put a monetary value to her suicide attempts.
I should elaborate more when I post links.

Skilletsnail said...

lol Especially when you've got linguist friends....

courtle said...

i tend to look at media discourse and semantics more than pragmatics. :P