Murdered vs died.

[Eyesopenwideawake]

Watching the BBC news tonight and they quoted "1200 people were murdered on the 7th October". In the same report they said that 20,000 people in Gaza had died since Israel started their campaign.

Language is so emotive. How would you think about the conflict if you were told/read that 20,000 Gazans had been murdered?

@Puppalicious absolutely.

Good that more and more are starting to call out the pseudo language in reference to the description of incidents relating to the conflict

@Desertrose2023 "males who may be children". Just wow.

Well done sky news 🤦🏻‍♀️

https://twitter.com/Lowkey0nline/status/1744414371348902297

Do better BBC.

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Another example. Important to recognize and call these out as we see them. Language matters. So do journalistic standards.

Shameful! Thanks for sharing.

https://theintercept.com/2024/04/15/nyt-israel-gaza-genocide-palestine-coverage/?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=theintercept&utm_medium=social