Is it important ?

Canadian police are investigating a murder in which a Muslim father reportedly beat his 16-year-old daughter to death because she would not wear the traditional head covering for Islamic women, the hijab - This is how most news outlets ran the story, yet one news outlet ran the story this way: 'Friends tell CTV News the girl came from a religious background. They add she had trouble at home and recently ran away. Friends say the fight was over the girl's choice of dress.' - Is it important to you that your news outlets report the known facts or ok to whitewash/cover-up the facts/true details ?

If that's how they ran the FULL story then I'd be upset. If that's just a preview of the story, fine but I would then want to know what the choice of dress was. It's kind of a pull you in preview, where as the other one goes for shock value.

Once again, this question was addressed to the 'Funadvice Community' yet put in 'Love and Relationships' - reason unknown.

I do think it is important to hear the whole story. People don't always listen right to the end of something so if they just read a preview of a story then it can completely change what they think on the matter. In the end though, the guy still murdered his daughter which is wrong in 99.9999999999999999 of the cases. that one little precent may of a just cause but let's not get into that.

I'm thinking about this news item and the way it might have been reported in my part of the world (Europe). When I lived in Britain there was a terrible case where a girl was neglected, abused and finally killed by her aunt and the aunt's boyfriend. These evil people had kept the child from school but had taken her to their church for exorcisms. The church leaders were perhaps the only people who might have identified the abuse and reported it before the child died, but they didn't see what was happening.

As Christians, my colleague Jaquie and I faced a lot of tough questions at work about that failure. We accepted the questions, and in fact that church, and churches in general, also accepted that they might see such terrible problems again, and took action to become more aware of abuse and their duty to report it.

At no point did the news reports imply that the abuse was done in the spirit of Christianity. It's just that these two evil people happened to go to a Christian church. So long as your news reports indicate that this murder was the act of an individual, rather than something condoned by Islam, I think that's fine. The news shouldn't hide facts, but should be careful to report them without inflaming hatred or misunderstanding.