Mastodawn

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/116184060048303307

Considering how often the NYT in particular does this, despite being frequently called out for it, I can only conclude that it is a very deliberate choice. It's not as if journalism schools don't teach about how the passive case is used to deflect and evade. So when a journalist who has graduated from a journalism school and possibly even won a Pulitzer uses the passive case this way, they do so intentionally to deflect and evade.

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Cassandrich

@RachelThornSub This, but it's not journalists. It's douches with MBA and marketing backgrounds who get to write the headlines, and this is a huge problem. Any decent journalists' union would have 100% final authority over the headlines on their own articles as a non negotiable demand.