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Sunday, July 20, 2008
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'Man shot at 8 a.m. in Roxbury'

That's the headline on a story this morning about a shooting in a Boston neighborhood that unfortunately sees more than its share.

Maybe it's just me -- I've been writing headlines professionally for 30 years -- but I am struck by the fact that the Boston Globe headline writer could find nothing but the time of the crime to join "man shot" and "in Roxbury" as facts worthy of highlighting in the headline.

Are shootings there so common that there's nothing left to say?

Or are they regularly scheduled events? Might 8 a.m. be meant to alert readers to the one upcoming at 9?

As I said, maybe it's just me.

(And, to make matters worse, I'm told by our resident expert on all things Boston -- Network World's Adam Gaffin, proprietor of Universal Hub -- that this particular shooting appears to have happened in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood, not Roxbury. He has his readers trying to sort that out. "People are really touchy about those things," says Gaffin.)

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