Most newspaper work is less thrilling than the climax of "State of Play" (worst movie title ever?) described below.
More typical is the reaction I had during the previews, when Tom Hanks in the upcoming "Angels and Demons" said the Catholic Church had ordered a "brutal massacre." My instant thought: What's the difference between a brutal massacre and a run-of-the-mill massacre? Would it be possible to have an "amiable massacre"?
That's how newspaper work warps your mind.
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We are glad to have you on our side David. But didn't your journalistic vibes also give a little tremble on hearing that it was the "Catholic Church" that "ordered" the massacre?
Massacres often lose not only their flavor - they are not even labeled as such in American newspapers. It only depends on who is doing the massacring:
200 Albanians in Kosovo in 1999? Massacre.
God only knows how many Iraqis ... 1991 forward? Liberation.
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