More broadcast journalism

Mon May 3 23:52:24 UTC 2010

The noun that comes to mind is "slanting," though there may be something a
bit more precise.

How about "unfairly implicative" ?

JL

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> I've just read an historian who does the same thing.  What is (are)
> the best adjective(s) to describe this kind of writing and
> speech?  (I want serious, scholarly ones, not the snarky.)
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> Joel
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> At 5/3/2010 05:47 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> >It took two by-lined AP journalists to write the following [
> >http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100503/ap_on_re_us/us_times_square_car_bomb
> ]:
> >
> >"The surveillance video, made public late Sunday, shows the man slipping
> >down Shubert Alley and taking off his shirt, revealing another underneath.
> >In the same clip, [he] looks back in the direction of the smoking vehicle
> >and furtively puts the first shirt in a bag."
> >
> >I've watched the video several times, and simple accuracy demands
> >"...walking down Shubert Alley" and "looks behind him and places the first
> >shirt in the bag."
> >
> >At least the article cites Mayor Bloomberg (for balance):  "'He may or may
> >not have been involved,' he said, adding it was a hot day and he might
> >simply have been trying to cool off."
> >
> >Whether or not the guy turns out to have been involved, the only possible
> >reason to write "slipping," "furtively," and "in the direction of the
> >smoking vehicle" is to make his actions - in this clip -  seem especially
> >suspicious.
> >
> >JL
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> >On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Jonathan Lighter
> ><wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:
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> > > Could there be more than one at large?  I remember an important
> _X-Files_
> > > episode involving an evil-doer who could "bilocate," i.e., be in two
> > > different places at the same time. And he wasn't even the Antichrist.
> > >
> > > Use of disguise would help too.
> > >
> > > Food for thought.
> > >
> > > JL
> > > On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > But believers would accept as fact that he *isn't* innocent and, even
> > > > if he were, they would claim that he could still *voluntarily* have
> > > > accepted the role of the Antichrist's beast of burden.
> > > >
> > > > -Wilson
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net>
> wrote:
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> > > > > At 5/3/2010 11:05 AM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
> > > > >> > Behalf Of Jonathan Lighter
> > > > >> > Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2010 9:53 AM
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> > > > >> > Subject: Re: OT: More broadcast journalism
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> > > > >> > And it's something else again for an American to
> > > > >> > suspect that the President of the United States, duly elected by
> > > ten=
> > > s
> > > > >>of
> > > > >> > millions of fellow citizens and vetted by an established
> national
> > > > >>party is really
> > > > >> > [the Antichrist].
> > > > >> >
> > > > >>True.  But on the other hand, if you were the Antichrist, wouldn't
> you
> > > > >>incarnate yourself as a the President, use your Antichrist powers
> to
> > > ge=
> > > t
> > > > >>millions of people to vote for you, and put your Antichrist buddies
> in
> > > > >>power in an established national party to vet you?  This seems a
> lot
> > > > >>more likely than Antichristing at McDonald's by carrying the trash
> to
> > > > >>the dumpster.
> > > > >
> > > > > Wasn't that theory discredited in 1692, when it was finally
> > > > > determined (after the trials were halted) that the Antichrist could
> > > > > not take the form of an innocent person without that person's
> > > > cooperation?
> > > > >
> > > > > Joel
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> > > > All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"=96=96a strange
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