Not in the title, but “allege” and it’s variants are used eight times in the article.
Comment on Teenage boy allegedly stabbed to death in front of lunchtime crowd at Melbourne shopping centre
Baku@aussie.zone 4 days 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”.
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
zero_gravitas@aussie.zone 4 days ago
They must have heard you because the headline on the article page is now “Boy, 16, fatally stabbed at shopping centre in Melbourne’s west”
Baku@aussie.zone 4 days ago
Thanks z! I’ve updated the title
Duenan@aussie.zone 2 days ago
For legal reasons they have to use alleged until court proceedings make a judgement officially or it becomes defamatory.
Baku@aussie.zone 2 days 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.
Duenan@aussie.zone 2 days ago
Because it hasn’t been tried in court and an official ruling hasn’t been made.
smh.com.au/…/alleged-crimes-and-obscured-identiti…
There are technicalities to the legal system, if you name them as a murdered and the case was acquitted or a different outcome came of it from the court ruling you have just named them a murderer when technically they weren’t and you have defamed them.
Baku@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Yes, but in regard to the title, nobody was accused, therefore nobody can sue for defamation.