How do you feel about ‘abducted’? I know that journalists use that term frequently when discussing domestic kidnappings, but it has a negative associations. When a pedophilac predator forces a victim to go with them, that appears to be acceptable language - would you say the term can apply to the President’s actions?
Your intent to use word to deliberately invoke emotion is exactly what news media should avoid. Note they are also not using the word “arrest” which would give legitimacy to the action.
Why do you think it’s important to push an emotion? Are you trying to use emotion to influence people into thinking how you think?
It’s fine for people on social media to express their feelings. But news media is supposed to be as factual as possible and should avoid using words to put an emotional spin on a story. Demanding news media to do so is demanding news media to be more propagandist than factual, and that makes it indistinguishable from other propaganda. I don’t think the problems we’re having is due to there not being enough propaganda. We need there to be some people reporting the facts.
How do you feel about ‘abducted’? I know that journalists use that term frequently when discussing domestic kidnappings, but it has a negative associations. When a pedophilac predator forces a victim to go with them, that appears to be acceptable language - would you say the term can apply to the President’s actions?
Your intent to use word to deliberately invoke emotion is exactly what news media should avoid. Note they are also not using the word “arrest” which would give legitimacy to the action.
Why do you think it’s important to push an emotion? Are you trying to use emotion to influence people into thinking how you think?
It’s fine for people on social media to express their feelings. But news media is supposed to be as factual as possible and should avoid using words to put an emotional spin on a story. Demanding news media to do so is demanding news media to be more propagandist than factual, and that makes it indistinguishable from other propaganda. I don’t think the problems we’re having is due to there not being enough propaganda. We need there to be some people reporting the facts.