yahoo!news knows the difference between Small "d" and Big "D" democratic/Democratic, yet

[UTUSN]

surely must be aware of superficial optics in reading/impressions. I, too, know "d" from "D" and meet passable bumpersticker awareness in politics, yet when I first glanced at the headline of this article I was brought up short and stunned that criminally charged leaders were cited as "democratic" which my synapses registered as "Democratic". I knee-jerked on outrage until I saw that the content was clearly referring to democratically-elected leaders, rather than Democratic Party leaders.

Even something *accurate* might have a *misleading* facet, and word-trade professionals surely might be aware of it. If a minor keyboard cadet like me was fooled, what do the "low information" wingnuts see in the headline?

Bonus: "low information voter" was coined to describe the Faux Propaganda Network viewers, but the Nazi-level propagandist LIMBAUGH did his word flipping by applying it to Left voters, drilling it in, and his zombies have been regurgitating it at Dems ever since, with the younger ones not even knowing the origin.

ON EDIT: The reporter's picture shows her so young (or I'm just old), doesn't fit my stereotype of grizzled journos. And I'm aware that headline writers are separate from the content.

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https://news.yahoo.com/trump-indictment-ex-us-president-joins-other-democratic-leaders-whove-faced-criminal-charges-185614165.html

Trump indictment: Ex-U.S. president joins other democratic leaders who've faced criminal charges

Niamh Cavanagh·Reporter

.... It is not every day that a former leader from a democratic nation is indicted, but it has become more common in recent years. ... ....

(Reporter's featured "other democratic leaders" : CHIRAC, SARKOZY, BERLUSCONI, S. Korea two & one suicide, and NETANYAHU)

*** https://www.yahoo.com/author/niamh-cavanagh-yahoo Niamh Cavanagh Reporter
Niamh Cavanagh is a writer and video producer based in London.

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[sarcasmo]

1. Yahoo has leaned right for a long time.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

2. I think that stylistically it would be preferable to write democratically-elected leaders,"

but headline writers have a long tradition of truncating headline and I'm not inflamed by this usage myself.

[UTUSN]

3. I just knee-jerk flamed out in the moment, but still see the (unintended?) potential.

Or *is* it unintended?

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. But not for an Irish journalist working in London

For those of us outside the U.S., "democratic leaders" works fine. (Her Yahoo! profile says she works in London; her Huff Post profile says she's Irish).

[UTUSN]

5. I acknowledged ON EDIT her London base, which doesn't change my point.

Whatever effect others/anywhere-else experience for themselves, I described *my* experience and noted its potential for how U.S.-others might also receive it.

It's not an earthshaking topic but something to be considered.

Wouldn't there be a yahoo!news editor for her and the headline writer who might also be appreciated to have the little consideration in the back of the mind? Or is the reporter's editor also somewhere else?