There's a reason for that
The Freep on the Alabama shootings:
Police don't have a motive yet.
... and a local slaying:
Investigators don't yet have a motive.
There's a reason they don't have a motive, you know. They didn't do it! (OK, it's the big town: They probably didn't do it!) "Police have no motive" is one of those deeply robotic bits of news writing that shows up everywhere because -- well, because everybody else who writes about cops seems to be using it. There's no earthly reason not to do it right: "Police haven't determined a motive."
Police don't have a motive yet.
... and a local slaying:
Investigators don't yet have a motive.
There's a reason they don't have a motive, you know. They didn't do it! (OK, it's the big town: They probably didn't do it!) "Police have no motive" is one of those deeply robotic bits of news writing that shows up everywhere because -- well, because everybody else who writes about cops seems to be using it. There's no earthly reason not to do it right: "Police haven't determined a motive."
posted by fev at 10:01 AM
2 Comments:
s/determined/announced a wild-ass guess at/
You mean they're NOT THE SAME THING? As in, "We have determined the value of the McClatchy stock in your 401(k), and there's nothing to worry about"?
Oh, dear.
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