Okay, I just HAD to blog about this…
I happened to stumble across this news article from news station WPIX in New Jersey. It is an article about how recently, “The sudden death of four infants less than 4 months-old within an eight-day period in one New Jersey town has families and authorities baffled.”
While this is a tragic and very unusual story, as SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) affects about 1 out of every 1,000 babies born in the United States, what really caught my attention is the URL the news station used for this article:
Really?! Use the words “dead-babies” as your URL?! Can we please be a little more insensitive? Does anyone else find this a little offensive?
What do you think about this? Should a little more thought be put in to how organizations title their web pages?
Definitely could have used better judgment.
You know it Brad…. We really need to be very careful with what we choose… With teh words they chose it leaves a feeling of uncaring to me.
Maybe they are actually caring and sympatheti to the story they are presenting and maybe there not. Words are powerful and can give a negative or positive feel to your website.
What kind of image do you now have of this news station…
just two words left a bad taste for you as well as it did for me… Yet the person who wrote the article may have been in tears as they wrote the article… But two words took that caringness and sympathetic feel and turned it into something with a morbid feel.
Good catch Brad