RubberDuck@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoAmerican woman shot dead at anti-settler protest in West Bankwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square36fedilinkarrow-up1439arrow-down117
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minus-squarephoneymouse@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up167arrow-down1·4 months agoNormally you’d say she was killed by the IDF, or Israel shot and killed an American. Instead the media makes strong use of passive voice: Witnesses say Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, was fired at by Israel Defense Forces soldiers positioned in a nearby field
minus-squaregerbler@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·edit-24 months ago …was fired at… Gotta love a passive voice so passive that it doesn’t even clarify that she was shot and killed and not merely “fired at”.
minus-squarevenusaur@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down3·4 months agoCould be rephrased as: US puppet military kills its own citizen
minus-squareTaiatari@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·4 months agoTo be fair, they do use the same language often enough when reporting about police shootings. Which does not make it any better though.
Normally you’d say she was killed by the IDF, or Israel shot and killed an American.
Instead the media makes strong use of passive voice:
Gotta love a passive voice so passive that it doesn’t even clarify that she was shot and killed and not merely “fired at”.
Could be rephrased as: US puppet military kills its own citizen
To be fair, they do use the same language often enough when reporting about police shootings. Which does not make it any better though.