Slugger wrote:
One thing that particularly bothers me is the phrase "t-boned" when describing a fatal car accident. I believe it is an insensitive term that puts the emphasis more on the violent entertainment of the crash than the human life taken by it. It seems lately reporters are using phrases like this more and more and it is very insensitive. Do these reporters not go to college anymore to get their jobs? I would think they would be talk more entiquette and communication skill than that?
What would you have the report write instead? If you hear T-Bone you instantly know that someone was hit while trying to make a left hand turn. When someone dies in a car accident, it is by definition a violent incident. When a reporter describes what happened, it allows people to know whether the crash was a result of high speed, bad road conditions, lane changes, or drive error -- like turning left in front of on coming traffic. Putting it in the context of entertainment was your doing, not the reporters'.
Slugger, please tell us what other car crash phrases offend you. Does the phrase "roll over" offend your sense too?
As for your question about reporters going to college. I know that Sara is a graduate of BYU, because I took classes with her. She was one of the better reporters at the Daily Universe and I think she may have been a student editor.
This is a tragic accident, and my heart goes out to all the families of the victims. But I don't see how the reporters were disrespectful to the victims because they happened to report about the facts of the accident.
. Couldn't they use better working like maybe "the collision ocurred on the right side of the vehicle where the victim was riding"...sounds better than "T-boned".
