The car drove itself. The knife stabbed of its own volition. Someone hacked my Twitter account.DEVELOPING: Readers are confronting a garbled ABC News-involved sentence that downplays the killing of a teenager and obscures responsibility for the deed.https://t.co/fXFGpyIcDj
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) April 14, 2021
There’s always an excuse that disavows responsibility. The interesting thing is how effective some of them are.
And who could have foreseen?My middle school English teacher: Don't use the passive voice, it hides the actor, confuses the structure and disinterests the reader!
— maura quint (@behindyourback) June 13, 2020
Every police statement ever: The individual was killed somehow, the universe is vast and mysterious and really what is life or death to the sky?
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