I know this is slightly off-topic, but I find this headline to be extremely strange. Why not "Oracle Co-CEO Mark Hurd has Died"? Surely the news is his death, not the announcement?
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good journalistic practice is to not report something as fact until it is independently verified. So in the online world with a rush to push the article, the headline has to reflect what they actually know ('oracle reported'). They will probably update the headline once they get confirmation.
A lot of times headlines use quotes to indicate that someone other than than the news org said it. But I wonder how many readers are barely literate and don't realize this. In this case the headline could be; Orace Co-CEO Mark Hurd 'has died'
That sounds a bit weird. That would imply the term 'has died' was somehow facetious or metaphorical.
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#13I know this is slightly off-topic, but I find this headline to be extremely strange. Why not "Oracle Co-CEO Mark Hurd has Died"? Surely the news is his death, not the announcement?
It might be an attempt to play on the word “Oracle”, but I don’t think death announcements are a good time to play with words... so, not sure.
I'm very sure that's not the case.
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A lot of times headlines use quotes to indicate that someone other than than the news org said it. But I wonder how many readers are barely literate and don't realize this. In this case the headline could be; Orace Co-CEO Mark Hurd 'has died'
That sounds a bit weird. That would imply the term 'has died' was somehow facetious or metaphorical.
What about:
Oracle: Co-CEO Mark Hurd has died.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
good journalistic practice is to not report something as fact until it is independently verified. So in the online world with a rush to push the article, the headline has to reflect what they actually know ('oracle reported'). They will probably update the headline once they get confirmation.
A lot of times headlines use quotes to indicate that someone other than than the news org said it. But I wonder how many readers are barely literate and don't realize this. In this case the headline could be; Orace Co-CEO Mark Hurd 'has died'
I find that worse, it suggests something is known definitely to have happened but it's being described in an unusual way. In any case I'm not sure this is the time for such conversations.
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A lot of times headlines use quotes to indicate that someone other than than the news org said it. But I wonder how many readers are barely literate and don't realize this. In this case the headline could be; Orace Co-CEO Mark Hurd 'has died'
That sounds a bit weird. That would imply the term 'has died' was somehow facetious or metaphorical.
Ah, scare quotes. How about:
Oracle: "Co-Ceo Mark Hurd Has Died"
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#17I know this is slightly off-topic, but I find this headline to be extremely strange. Why not "Oracle Co-CEO Mark Hurd has Died"? Surely the news is his death, not the announcement?
When I die I hope I achieve such fame as to be immortalized in a pedantic hacker news arguement.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
A lot of times headlines use quotes to indicate that someone other than than the news org said it. But I wonder how many readers are barely literate and don't realize this. In this case the headline could be; Orace Co-CEO Mark Hurd 'has died'
That sounds a bit weird. That would imply the term 'has died' was somehow facetious or metaphorical.
It actually sounds like something North Korea would say.
“The hostages ‘succumb to an accident’”