the Incidental Death framing (US govt fired, Y happened to die nearby) is common in reporting on police shootings http://www.newsweek.com/alva-braziel-what-we-know-houston-police-shooting-479210?rx=us …pic.twitter.com/qQLLbgdRgy
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the Incidental Death framing (US govt fired, Y happened to die nearby) is common in reporting on police shootings http://www.newsweek.com/alva-braziel-what-we-know-houston-police-shooting-479210?rx=us …pic.twitter.com/qQLLbgdRgy
this prevents the writer from having to show causality and thus blame. Police discharged weapons, then X died instead of "police killed X"
@reddishraven
"There were strikes & yes civilians died, but if a tree fell in the forest..."
Passive Voice is an Active Killer
Reads like two people also happened to die there, once upon a time. Coincidentally.
@charliejmay It's like my HS history textbook where thing just start one way and end up another.
Another euphemism for mass slaughter. "Civilians died" is like when your child says "cookies got eaten".
Freedom of the Pressured
@OmanReagan Or the Post headline "where 100 were allegedly killed".
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