• apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      182·
      2 months ago

      Yep, high school grammar 101. It isn’t that journalists don’t know this, it is how they are trained. Shift obvious blame away from parties for objectivity until a verdict or deference to the status quo.

      • PapaStevesy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        2 months ago

        Yes, we all agree on that fact. The discussion progressed to two different commentors’ active voice re-writes of the original sentence.

    • whoreticulture@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      I would argue the first isn’t active voice

      “died when the driver of a car hit her” seems passive to me. It’s more accurate, but still passive.