Trayvon Williams tragedy(not)

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Fri Mar 23 09:21:53 CDT 2012


Right.

Another example is the press calling the recent murder of sleeping
Iraqi civilians a "killing spree."  "Spree" is a really bad word
choice, now a cliche.

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Adams, Larry W. <lwadams1 at una.edu> wrote:
> I agree with David that playing word games is inappropriate, thus my original observation.  Words are hugely important and that's why we all, media especially, need to be careful how we use them.  Just my opinion, but this whole situation is not a tragedy, it's a travesty.



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