Murdering. The offer murdered the baby while attempting to murder other black people in cold blood. I fucking hate seeing this passive voice used for fucking racist murderer cops.
I don’t think that’s “passive voice”, it’s intentionally choosing a softer word, (though even that may be more of a liability one. Same concept as the media using every word but “children” to describe people killed in Palestine.
Passive voice would be.
“A baby in a car was shot while police were responding to a shoplifting report”.
Or if they wanted to dial it up to 100.
A male black baby was involved in a shooting with police responding to a shoplifting report.
You are correct. They said he killed the baby. Active voice. Accurate. Not softening the blow very much, arguably a little, but it’s also very easy to argue that their word choice is justified in the pursuit of covering facts.
Just in case someone here didn’t get the memo: the American corporate news journalistic establishment failed catastrophically in 2016. Everything since then has been wallpaper.
(And yes those of you particularly fussy about this, it was that way for many decades previous, but it hadn’t resulted in an obvious literal russian asset being placed in the presidency before.)
Murdering. The offer murdered the baby while attempting to murder other black people in cold blood. I fucking hate seeing this passive voice used for fucking racist murderer cops.
I don’t think that’s “passive voice”, it’s intentionally choosing a softer word, (though even that may be more of a liability one. Same concept as the media using every word but “children” to describe people killed in Palestine.
Passive voice would be.
“A baby in a car was shot while police were responding to a shoplifting report”.
Or if they wanted to dial it up to 100.
A male black baby was involved in a shooting with police responding to a shoplifting report.
You are correct. They said he killed the baby. Active voice. Accurate. Not softening the blow very much, arguably a little, but it’s also very easy to argue that their word choice is justified in the pursuit of covering facts.
Well, they want to leave it open in case the baby had a gun. /s
That baby was obviously an antifa terrorist!
Just in case someone here didn’t get the memo: the American corporate news journalistic establishment failed catastrophically in 2016. Everything since then has been wallpaper.
(And yes those of you particularly fussy about this, it was that way for many decades previous, but it hadn’t resulted in an obvious literal russian asset being placed in the presidency before.)