“One-Year-Old Boy Killed After Officer Fires at Vehicle in Mississippi,” said the New York Times headline (6/16/26). So, a “one-year-old boy”—what most people would call a baby—was “killed after” a police officer fired at a vehicle, but there’s no verb you could use to connect those two things?

  • HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    US media has been increasingly state controlled since, at a minimum, its inception.

    That’s the real reason they want age verification and mass censorship on the internet, BTW. No one in the West would have ever known about Israel’s genocidal campaigns against Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, etc, if it weren’t for the open internet.