It is just shocking how the news media uses language when it comes to their reports.
A 33-year-old pregnant staffer for the Clinton Global Initiative and her boyfriend were among those killed in the Kenya mall shooting, former President Bill Clinton said.
Elif
Yavuz, a senior vaccines researcher based in Tanzania, had been
expecting a baby with Ross Langdon, an award-winning architect, who was
also killed in the rampage.
So the terrorist attack is called a "mall shooting" and a "rampage" and not what it actually is. It sounds like a mass shooting in the US and I think that was the authors intent. Later in the article you have this passage:
As many as 62 people are feared dead in the siege that began on
Saturday, when gunmen stormed the multilevel Westgate shopping center in
Nairobi.
Okay now we have "siege" and "gunmen" pop up. That sounds a little better than "mall shooting" but if you read this article you do not get a sense that it was an Al-Quida linked group attacking that Mall.
I wonder if writer Dylan Stableford is carrying some of Obama's water. I was told Al-Quida was almost defeated from repeated drone strikes. I guess the Kenyan people and these two poor Americans mentioned in this article beg to differ.
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