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“Headline writers and people putting together weekend wire stories: you don’t actually have say it that way. Yes, Jenner is the big name and Jenner’s involvement is what makes a highway fatality a big news story. But the Boston Globe did just fine with the headline “Bruce Jenner involved in fatal Malibu crash.” A local FOX affiliate said it accurately and less offensively with “Bruce Jenner involved in car crash, one person dead.” And CNN, committing a little journalism, declared, “1 dead in car crash involving Bruce Jenner.” That’s how you do it. Because otherwise, you’re announcing that a celebrity’s well-being is more important than another person’s death. And the woman who died on that stretch of road on Saturday may not have been famous, but she deserves better than that.”