AP feels the heat, changes headlines

Ace of Spades documents how AP changes its headlines in line with social media reaction to stories. Yesterday a Palestinian Hamas supporter terrorized people in Israel by driving his car into a group of people near a Jerusalem train station, killing a three-month-old baby. Israeli police shot the man as he fled the scene. The first AP headline was Israeli police shoot man in east Jerusalem. Outrage started to build on social media. The second headline was Car slams into east Jerusalem train station. Ace comments:

Um... the car didn't slam into the station of its own accord. It was driven by a terrorist attempting to kill Jews.

Incidentally, notice that while the world media took notice of the Ottawa shooting, the world media pretty much ignored this terrorist attack in Israel. In fact, AP originally tried to portray it as a story of Israelis shooting "a man" in Jerusalem.

As outrage ballooned on social media, the AP finally gave the story the headline it deserved all along:

Palestinian kills baby at Jerusalem station.

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