Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 9:30 am
One amusing instance of this showed up recently . . . rather than saying a bad guy who'd been shot had a criminal history, the newspaper wrote words to the effect that prison records showed that a "man with the same name and birthdate" had recently served time for another crime . . .seamusTX wrote: . . . People sometimes make fun of newspapers for using phrases like alleged robber, even when the person being discussed is dead and beyond libel or human justice. That's what their rules call for (the rules are mostly in the Associated Press style book, though some newspapers have their own style books). . . .