On mainstream media and word choice
I have already blogged about my objection to the use of the word “pandemic” when, outside China, it is a bad virus that apparently only really kills people who were already moribund. Media, just because the CDC and Anthony Fauci tell you something doesn’t make it true.
My latest annoyance from mainstream media is that in the recent Alec Baldwin accident reporters keep calling what he used a “prop gun.” No, if the gun fired things that could kill and badly injure two people, it was logically a real gun. I agree he didn’t mean to do what happened.
People have to be more careful with language. My Dad recently warned me about this. Last winter, I was tortured by legal authorities for non-violent and non-sexual jokes.