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Originally Posted by Traditional_Ale
Of course it would be newsworthy!
I've never given a thought to falling asleep on the Greyhound.
The decapitation and behavior of the assailant just makes the whole thing a little extra sick, but no less newsworthy!
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sorry, i probably did a bad job of communicating my question. Of course a murder is newsworthy. I should have just stuck to my original line of thought and just asked about the shocking nature of this murder, but would a stabbing outside Winnipeg garner attention on CNN if not for the shocking way the murder was carried out?
The decapitation is what makes this worse, no?
It doesn't further victimize the murder victim, he's already dead (hope that doesnt sound flippant), it sort of victimizes the witnesses, the murder victims family or anyone who hears the story. The decapitation leaves a much stronger (horrific) image than just a stabbing, at least it does for me. Maybe that says more about my twisted mind; that murders don't shock me anymore, and something more horrific than just the murder, like the decapitation is needed to evoke that horror