• aesthelete@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    They write completely content-less headlines and articles that are so “neutral” they look like they were written by an extraterrestrial attorney.

    Guy A shoots guy B with a gun and they write it up as “spectators allege that the bullet that happened to strike B may likely have originated from the barrel of a gun that A has been said to have held in or around the same period where B happened to be struck”.

    I took journalism in high school and the instruction at the time was not to use the fucking passive voice…but that’s all the motherfuckers use…even when covering extremely high stakes shit.