gatt wrote:
"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.


Truthful? That's debateable.

Sorry, I killfiled you before I read the rest of your drivel. Idiot.