Even between native English speakers, confusion between 'casualties' and 'fatalities' is common. However if anybody should be able to get this right, it should

Even between native English speakers, confusion between 'casualties' and 'fatalities' is common. However if anybody should be able to get this right, it should be journalists. They take a lot of English writing classes in university, don't they? What's their excuse? Knowing how to write is literally their job.