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'It could have been a lot worse': 2 hurt after Navy aircraft crashes in Lake Worth neighborhood, officials say
Two pilots of a Navy training jet ejected about two miles northeast of the Fort Worth Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base around 11:00a.m. CST. One pilot was found caught in power lines and the other pilot was found in the neighborhood. The pilots were injured and were taken to local hospitals. Initial reports indicate there was damage to three houses from debris. "Officials with the Department of Defense later told WFAA the plane was a Navy T-45C Goshawk jet trainer aircraft. An… (www.wfaa.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Unfortunately whoever wrote the article confused receiving an electric shock with electrocution - which of course means the person was killed... it's an all too common mistake by journalists and I'm glad that wasn't the case in this incident
Swing and a miss.
From Merriam Webster: Definition of electrocute - transitive verb - to kill or severely injure by electric shock.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/electrocute
From Merriam Webster: Definition of electrocute - transitive verb - to kill or severely injure by electric shock.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/electrocute
Yup. The worn originated as a combination of electric and execution. Electric Execution + Electrocution.
Todays "journalists" get awards for being first, not for being accurate.
I can assure you that most of us journalists know the difference between being shocked and electrocuted. Same as the difference between alive and dead. ð
Bad writing - worse editing...
Or maybe it was one of those AI written articles and the algorithm hadn't included rules in that discipline.
In any case, there are increasing numbers of "pieces of journalism" in all sources that are missing vital grammatical articles or in which there are serious extrapolations of the story (data) that are somewhere between ludicrous and dangerous.
(Disclaimer: this post was not edited for content, veracity or validity, or any other reasonable measure of value and therefore shall contain the prefatory trigraph "IMO".)
Or maybe it was one of those AI written articles and the algorithm hadn't included rules in that discipline.
In any case, there are increasing numbers of "pieces of journalism" in all sources that are missing vital grammatical articles or in which there are serious extrapolations of the story (data) that are somewhere between ludicrous and dangerous.
(Disclaimer: this post was not edited for content, veracity or validity, or any other reasonable measure of value and therefore shall contain the prefatory trigraph "IMO".)