"Emily" wrote in message
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Yes, it did strike, it did impact, and it did collide.

Yet the media uses the word slammed.

Then what the hell difference does it make? Slammed is a dramatic, active
verb. All writers who paid attention in writing classes learned to avoid
weak verbs. If a jet plane flying into a house, exploding, incinerating the
house and leaving nothing but a smoking ruin -isn't- "slamming" into
something, nothing is.

Your opinion that "slammed" is subjective is subjective.

You know, I grew up with a couple of military officers for parents, who
viewed the media as a necessary evil.

Pilots are frequently of the arrogant opinion that the media somehow owes
them something. They just don't. Journalists earn livings and reputations
by writing vivid, truthful accounts. There is nothing untruthful about the
FACT that the jet SLAMMED INTO the house and no reason why a
journalist--especially after the treatment observed in this forum--should
feel an obligation to sugarcoat it for the sensitivies of the aviation
community.

A community journalist's job is to report to the community what happened.
Mission accomplished. Your sensibilities about what words is insignificant
compared whatever memories, pets or possessions the property holder lost
because of the accident. And the media has been calling it a tragic accident
AND calling the pilot a hero since it happened, so I don't see the point of
whining about media insensitivity.

-gatt