So much of journalism these days seems designed around the desire to avoid upsetting people in power, the complete opposite of what it ought to do.
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And if you haven’t read Politics and the English Language, you really should. http://www.public-library.uk/ebooks/72/30.pdf …
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We're old enough to have seen these phrases get introduced and then take hold. I'm sure you still remember how fresh it was when WMDs was invoked to conflate chemical weapons with nuclear ones. Or how IEDs was invoked to make "pipe bomb" sound more sophisticated.
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I'm active in the Livable Streets community and we continually stress the importance of using "Crash," not "Accident." "Officer Involved" is like 100x worse at absolving the responsible parties.https://visionzeronetwork.org/about/pledge/
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Just like Peculiar Institution
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@KenoshaPolice TAX dollars were used to 'detain' a 'supsect' walking down the street BUT shooting this Black Man as a gang of officer at close range was NOT!!! IF YOU'RE SCARED TO DO YOU'RE JOB THEN QUIT!!! PEOPLE = POLICY#RefundThePeople POLICY = POLICE#DefundThePoliceThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Do know know, how do these terms end up used in so many newsrooms so quickly? Do their lawyers instruct editors and reporters to use them? Is it just copying what other people are doing?
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I would guess transfer learning :-/
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As Orwell once wrote, "Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."