Things that are "nigh insufferable."

[PearlWatson]

This headline:

In squalid Haiti camps, rape stalks women: Amnesty

Rape doesn't stalk women and young girls in the refugee camps...GANGS of rapist thugs do.

The whole thing makes me puke.

 

[Stickler]

There are typically word limitations due to space for headlines. That's why they get truncated in this way. Then you have to read the article to get the details. I'm not saying you're wrong, but how would you have worded it better while using the same number or fewer letters?

 

[PearlWatson]

There are typically word limitations due to space for headlines. That's why they get truncated in this way. Then you have to read the article to get the details. I'm not saying you're wrong, but how would you have worded it better while using the same number or fewer letters?

Gang rapers stalk women in Haitian camps: Amnesty

Same number of words.

 

[LogGrad98]

Well that clears that up.

 

[moevillini]

either way makes it sound like the rapists are being granted amnesty

 

[Stickler]

Gang rapers stalk women in Haitian camps: Amnesty

Same number of words.

Fair.

 

[PearlWatson]

either way makes it sound like the rapists are being granted amnesty

They pretty much are.

 

[babe]

This headline:

In squalid Haiti camps, rape stalks women: Amnesty

Rape doesn't stalk women and young girls in the refugee camps...GANGS of rapist thugs do.

The whole thing makes me puke.

Probably the editors directed a selection of a less graphic headline.

And probably they made a point of not mentioning that these women need something effective to defend themselves.