Screamer Jim: However much the NYT is ripped for its coverage, it’s not enough

However much the NYT is ripped for its coverage, it’s not enough

The humanitarian convoy was hit by weapons that were launched at a target which was the convoy, much like the other humanitarian workers who were hit by weapons that were fired at a target which was them.

Hate when this happens

missile-involved explosion

Some minor explosion-adjacent dismemberment occurred, it is unclear if this was related to the missile. A source close to the IDF reported sometimes that “just happens”

Authorities are still investigating how the vehicle ended up in between an explosive device and the earth.

The editors who wrote that headline/blurb should be dragged behind a speeding malfunctioning cyber truck over a sea of broken glass driven by zombie E.B. White for all eternity as punishment for that use of the passive voice.

Aid Workers Die in a Barrage of Precisely Targeted Munitions

Ask not for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for the convoy which was hit

This language is hated by a person who is coterminous with my own self's mind

"Convoy was hit" Passive voice not indicating who hit it, or that it was clearly targeted.

I hate when my convoy gets hit by nobody in particular

Especially when “nobody in particular” uses precision missiles that require someone to sit and paint them with a fucking laser

The missiles were just hovering in the air minding their own business when the feckless aid convoy walked right into it and made the missile hit it

I just heard Trudeau refer to it as a mistake. It wasn’t a mistake. It was a delivered act that did exactly what it was intended to do.

Clearly they were hit by a smooth criminal

And then talks about the death toll "of the Gaza War"

nyt: the convoy was hit public: stop using passive voice you cowards! nyt: the convoy received a drone strike

As if by prophecy

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In the sense that the sun rising tomorrow is a prophecy, yes

"How can we avoid making any reference to the undeniable fact that the IDF deliberately attacked food aid workers?"

HIT BY WHOM, NYT BY WHOM

José Andrés is calling out the IDF and Biden for the triple-tap strikes on his workers. I doubt even this will be enough, sadly. Children being amputated with no anesthesia and a million people being starved to death didn’t elicit any substantial response from Biden and Sunak, so why would this?

Andrés’s statement. youtu.be/ddoBO4KToSw?...

World Central Kitchen founder José Andrés on the attack on his aid workers in Gaza | SBS Newsyoutu.be The founder of World Central Kitchen, Celebrity chef Jose Andres, talks to the Reuters news agency following the deaths of WCK aid workers in Gaza, including...

The only optimism I can offer is that the children and the starving didnt have bidens phone number and clout with international courts and things like that that the WCK seem to do

Passive voice does a lot of heavy lifting here.

Heavy lifting occurred.

So proud I got my dad to cancel his subscription

We seriously need to contact Thursday Next to figure out what's going on with this unregulated use of passive voice

I’m here in support of Thursday Next references and also to decry the bombing of aid workers.

I have found my people at last

They gave Andrés an op-ed, though. www.nytimes.com/2024/04/03/o...

Opinion | José Andrés: Let People Eatwww.nytimes.com You cannot win this war by starving an entire population.

"Missile hit by aid convoy"

"aid convoy and missile crossed paths"

Oh come on, NYT reporting has been incandescent recently.

Can't wait for their expose on shiny objects and object permanence.

The Exonerative Mood: Not Just for Cops!

A voice so passive that the author fell asleep.

The convoy unfortunately launched itself into the air and collided with an Israeli missile that was simply floating there minding its own business

Those naturally occurring drone strikes

They could definitely do better. I mean that use of the word 'killed'. Surely it should say died, then there is no implication that someone might be responsible.

That's Olympic-level passive voice, there.

Really is. Don't get me started.

When I read it, my automatic reaction was, "BY WHOM?!" There seems to be a lot of inexplicable destruction flying around. Nobody to take responsibility, surely. 🙄

This is clearly a deliberate shortcoming by the NYT editors, coupled with their self-defeating relationship with Trump. A mind is a terrible thing to lose...

"It was hit. Could have been an Act of God. Who's to say?"

It's just weapons falling off from the air in Gaza according to the NYT, some kind of crazy rain.

By zombies? Sheesh, NYT, lose the fucking passive voice.

NYT is unreliable as a news source anymore. It's compromised itself with it's own standards. Pretty sure the reporting standard for a high school newspaper is better than the NYT nowadays.

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