Cross-posted from “The Guardian Retracts Their Coverage of the Shooter Being a Leftist” by @[email protected] in [email protected]
Cross-posted from “The Guardian Retracts Their Coverage of the Shooter Being a Leftist” by @[email protected] in [email protected]
Not a headline. It’s a live post not an article.
What’s the difference?
An article is a self-contained narrative which should be researched and corroborated before publication. A live blog is less detailed and formal, is more immediate, and has a higher error rate as speed is the aim.
Why is a news organization publishing things that look like news articles but which have none of the elements of rigour that is expected of news organizations? Seems like something we should firmly reject.
It may look to you like a news article, but you’re seeing a screenshot in isolation. It’s a post on a liveblog, and readers aren’t going to confuse it with an article.
Apologies for the bluntness but that is absolute nonsense. I just took a look at the article on my phone: ZERO clear indication that this is any sort of “liveblog” whatever that’s supposed to mean. It’s from a news organization, it’s not clearly marked as an editorial, the url and menu clearly mark it as “news”, and the screenshot literally says “this article”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/12/charlie-kirk-suspect-washington-utah
Grab your ponies. You’re on the wrong link.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/sep/12/charlie-kirk-shooter-suspect-latest-news-updates-donald-trump-utah?filterKeyEvents=false&page=with%3Ablock-68c47b768f086519d327114d#block-68c47b768f086519d327114d