A sword attack, heroism, and knee-jerk exceptionalism.
Wednesday May 1 2024
Yesterday, an apparently maniacal sword attack in a peaceful London suburb resulted in the death of a teenage boy, and injuries to bystanders.
Media coverage was inevitably lurid, even by the standards of current reporting of state-sponsored bloodshed around the world.
Students of journalism would do well to study the skills of attention-grabbing headlines this morning.
Unusually, it is not easy to identify the newspaper from the headlines.
