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Talk about failure as a journalist. I just can’t with these assholes. They’re almost as guilty as Trump in that their word choice helps every last one of those bastards get away with it.
If the GIRL was a TEEN, then she was a CHILD, not a woman. I don’t care about the potential for alternative interpretations here. The frame placed on the situation is done with one word: woman. Not teen. Not child. Not kid. Not girl. “Woman”. Which creates a sideways shift in perception.
I am so sick of this shit.
Again, this isn't a failure, the media is working exactly as intended. They aren't on our side, they're on the side of the ruling class. The ruling class bought and own the media. They aren't going to use the media to criticize themselves.
If we want to see justice, we need to make it. We need to take action. The rules of the system protect the ruling class. We need to break the rules and break the system itself.
The ruling class and Israel control the media
Israel is a puppet state of the US. It is also controlled by the ruling class.
They wouldn’t need to blackmail our politicians if that was the case . I think you’ve got it backwards it’s us who’s occupied by them. Netynahu is calling the shots Trump is a joke
I don't have it backwards, I promise you. Israel is a colony set up by the US and the UK with the explicit purpose of advancing their foreign policy goals in the Middle East. The US pretends that Israel is a sovereign nation because the US population would not tolerate their actions if it was their own country.
Israel destabilizes the middle east, making the region ripe for extractionism.
Not all US politicians are aligned with US/Israeli imperialist interests and thus they are bribed, but plenty of them aren't.
Trump is a puppet, but he's not Israel's puppet, he's the puppet of the primarily US-based ruling elite.
Look at all of the connections between Mossad and the CIA. They work together all the time.
Stop spreading their misinfornation for them.
Certin News people faced justice when the Nazis fell, a lot of people forget that it wasnt just the soldier of the regime that were tried and persecuted. Tho this person likely isn't the subject, her editer def might get looked over
Raped a teenager. That's what he did. He raped a teenage girl .
He raped a 13 year old girl. There. I said what should be in the headlines.
“Underage woman” is a phrase used by pedophile supporters.
You even wrote the word underage, nobody is supporting that, your point makes no sense
"Underage woman" is an oxymoron. Woman means adult female, and cannot be described as underage without contradicting yourself. These journalists are attempting to lessen the emotional response and confuse people by avoiding saying child or teenager.
Early teens…. This is so disgusting
Its a fucking new director conspiracy:
https://www.npr.org/sections/npr-public-editor/2025/12/04/g-s1-100597/npr-described-jeffrey-epsteins-victims-as-underage-women-then-quickly-corrected-the-error
It's funny people seem more upset by the word choice than the rape committed and human trafficking.
Is that what you think is happening here?
In case you missed it:
It’s funny people seem more upset by the word choice than the rape committed and human trafficking.
So, you are just an actual idiot. Noted.
I'll take any iq test against you and you will fail miserably against me.
Wow. The dumbest reply imaginable...
Says the idiot.
IQ tests are eugenics nonsense. don't be an ablist
Says the idiot.
Yeah, cause that's not the exact thing an idiot would say.
Says the idiot.
we're upset that the word choice runs cover for the thing we're REALLY upset about
Semantics?
systematic child exploitation.
what the fuck? so… let me get this straight. you say we're not mad about the systematic child exploitation. we say "yes we are" you say "what, specifically, are you upset about" we say "the systematic child exploitation" and then you call me an incel?
that's…
really weird. it seems like you just want to be mad at people on the internet today. unless we can clear up whatever misunderstanding this is, i'm going to assume you're a troll and block you because you are absolutely not behaving like someone who actually wants to do something about this problem and instead wants to do some fake moralizing about how the rest of us only care about words and you're the only one who's actually concerned about the sytematic child exploitation.
Shit I like your reply. It is so mature and intelligent. No /s
i sometimes fail, but i always at least try to work to be an empathetic and patient person in my interactions. when i get frustrated i try to explain what it is that's made me frustrated rather than focus on the frustration itself
lol I don’t usually block people but I’m pretty sure you are an actual child.
There's a distinct difference between how some of these terms are used depending on context. There is biological status and then there is legal status.
So be careful where & when you take issue.
Here, legal terms are appropriate due to the subject matter, and you should definitely suggest to the authors that they adjust the terms used accordingly.
Just complaing to the ether may be cathartic, but inaction is also complicit.
However teen is a teen regardless of context, as it's a designation of age group, not a legal or biological classification. So it's up to the reader to determine relevance of the teens age beyond that.
Even in paper days journalism deliberately packed their first and second sentences of an article with the most punchy and relevant details because they knew, with every additional sentence, readers were lost.
The line is buried. And could be stated more succinctly with “13 year old girl”, punching in the relevant details.
Instead, extra words are added. It’s deliberate. And it’s journalism’s job not to do this because a large slice of readers will hit only the key words and move on.
She was a woman by the time she was able to report it, but it's very poorly worded.