with crime reports, it’s all in how you say it

By Grand Rapids Anonymous
Monday, June 20, 2022 at 11:32:00 A.M. EDT

weekend toll in Chicago: 47 people hit by gunfire, 13 of them in just five hours

(sun-times) two attacks occurred within minutes of each other, a half a mile apart, wounding an 11-year-old girl and a 16-year-old boy.

GRA: Notice the less honest description in the sun-times headline: “47 hit by gunfire”—not shot—almost as if they were nicked, by accident. A new way that the media has cooked up to describe what happens in the ghetto—and elsewhere?

How about 9/11’s headline, using the same tactic?

Twin Towers and 2,700 People Get in the Way of Saudi Hijacked Planes

Or a recent mass shooting:

Whites Failed to Get Out of the Way of Black Shooter at Factory

Or to a more absurd level:

Street Gangs Voluntarily Take Bullets from Each Other to Save Others in the Neighborhood

No-fault crime—in other words.

--GRA