9News US Correspondent Lauren Tomasi ‘sore, but okay’ after being shot by rubber bullet in LA protests.
This is the title of the article you linked. She wasn’t shot by a rubber bullet. We saw that she was deliberately targeted and shot with a rubber bullet by a police officer while reporting on the protests, an action both illegal and against LAPD policy. It’s not a mistake or a coincidence the title is worded in a way to minimize this incident and the involvement of the police, it’s propaganda. And when Bernie implies these protests are violent, which they are not, he gives credibility to this propaganda when he should be unequivocally condemning police violence.
I think they’re point is that a better headline might be something like “Reporter targeted and shot with rubber bullet by police”. That more clearly calls out that it was intentional and not a stray, which most people are probably going to assume.
I understand you; the point is it’s not just grammatical pedantry. Passive language is deliberately used to reduce feelings of culpability. “The suspect died in custody” is less blame pointing than “Police denied suspect treatment for injuries, leading to his death in custody”.
Even if people understand that the police would be the ones with the rubber bullets, there’s an emotional response behind “Police shot at reporter” that you don’t get from “reporter was hit by bullet”.
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This is the title of the article you linked. She wasn’t shot by a rubber bullet. We saw that she was deliberately targeted and shot with a rubber bullet by a police officer while reporting on the protests, an action both illegal and against LAPD policy. It’s not a mistake or a coincidence the title is worded in a way to minimize this incident and the involvement of the police, it’s propaganda. And when Bernie implies these protests are violent, which they are not, he gives credibility to this propaganda when he should be unequivocally condemning police violence.
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I’m kind of amazed that we are two years into the Gaza genocide and you still do not know the difference between active and passive media voice.
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This is irrelevant. The brains of people only register what they see in the headline.
The perpetrator is the cop.
There shouldn’t need to be “clues”
I think they’re point is that a better headline might be something like “Reporter targeted and shot with rubber bullet by police”. That more clearly calls out that it was intentional and not a stray, which most people are probably going to assume.
I understand you; the point is it’s not just grammatical pedantry. Passive language is deliberately used to reduce feelings of culpability. “The suspect died in custody” is less blame pointing than “Police denied suspect treatment for injuries, leading to his death in custody”.
Even if people understand that the police would be the ones with the rubber bullets, there’s an emotional response behind “Police shot at reporter” that you don’t get from “reporter was hit by bullet”.