Amongst the 128 people that have died was one American victim but the @NyTimes Twitter account had an "interesting" description. They went with following 140 characters
@nytimes: Paris attack victims include American college student and "talented" 26-year-old lawyer https://t.co/hfjeR587Fe https://t.co/Bv8BaC0KyA
I am not sure why they felt the need to put talented in quotes, but guess they felt they couldn't use it without them and without giving up their appearance of neutrality on the issue. The problem is that it actually just reads like she may not have had that much talent, which I doubt is what they wanted to portray
But the bigger issue is that the talented thing is really irrelevant to this tweet, would it have been any less of a travesty if she was just an average lawyer or even a below average one. I know plenty of those and if they had perished in such a despicable act, it would not be any less tragic
So it might be time to remove or edit that post
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1 comment:
Valentin Ribet is a guy's name, not a woman's name.
Thus, he was a "talented" lawyer, not she was a "talented" lawyer.
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