Comment on Why do media always specify a car's model in news stories?
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
Do they always do that?
I just looked through recent articles on vehicle-related incidents on a major local news website for my city, and that doesn’t seem to be the case at least there.
- wien.orf.at/stories/3376060/ doesn’t mention it, though it does have a photo of the car in question
- wien.orf.at/stories/3375812/ isn’t directly about a car crash, but is about someone getting assaulted over vehicle-related behavior; doesn’t mention the car model
- wien.orf.at/stories/3375778/ doesn’t mention it
I was unable to quickly find a recent story on that site that does mention it, so your premise doesn’t seem to be exactly true; maybe it’s true where you live, but not everywhere in the world.
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 days ago
“maybe it’s true where you live”
Well, that goes for most things. Social media is painful sometimes because we forget not everyone is, for example, American, and even then, culture varies wildly.
Had a lady on Bluesky arguing that ambulances always light up in neighborhoods for emergencies. I said they never have anywhere I’ve lived, not until they hit the main road or highway. I was WRONG because they do so in her area. 🤷🏼♂️ (That was about Mitch McConnell’s “death”.)