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A Kobani Prison Fire Kills Seven Inmates

TL;DR

Al Jazeera files at least seven killed in a Kobani prison fire during a riot; Saturday does not print nine or a Monday funeral.

MSM Perspective

Al Jazeera files seven. The Observatory's nine is a second count. Print seven. Do not average.

X Perspective

Feeds treat a prison fire as a new front.

A fire at a prison in Kobani, northern Syria, killed at least seven inmates on Saturday, Al Jazeera filed, amid a riot. [1] Dozens were injured by burns or smoke. [1] The Times of Israel filed the same seven and unrest after protests over a former fighter's killing. [2] Print seven. Do not print a new war.

Inmates reportedly started the blaze against transfers to Aleppo, in Saturday's stack. [1] The facility remained under Syrian Democratic Forces control. A riot is not a recapture of the city. A transfer plan is not a completed transfer.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights used a higher death toll. [2] This desk prints Al Jazeera's seven and will not average in nine. A Monday funeral is Monday's. Print Saturday's fire. Leave a named investigation's findings to the edition that owns findings.

Seven against nine: Al Jazeera's count versus the Observatory's. This desk prints the lower with the caveat attached. Prison fires in war zones invite both counting and discounting.

Discounted counts stay caveated; Saturday prints Al Jazeera's seven, not nine. Monday's funeral is Monday's. Findings wait on investigators.

Seven against nine: this desk prints the lower. Prison fires invite both counting and discounting. Findings wait.

Al Jazeera's seven sits below the Observatory's nine. Saturday prints the lower with the caveat. Monday's funeral is not this page.

Saturday prints Al Jazeera's seven, not nine. Prison fires invite counting and discounting. Leave Monday's funeral to Monday.

Saturday prints Al Jazeera's seven, not nine. Prison fires invite counting and discounting. Monday's funeral is another edition.

Saturday prints Al Jazeera's seven, not nine. Prison fires invite counting and discounting. Monday's funeral is another edition.

-- YOSEF STERN, Jerusalem

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