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The passive voice in news articles is an accountability sink. Cullen Hoback[1] is the accuser. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cullen_Hoback https://en.wikipe
by kelseyfrog 2y ago
The passive voice in news articles is an accountability sink. Cullen Hoback[1] is the accuser.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cullen_Hoback https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cullen_Hoback
- asveikau 2y agoThe headline and the byline are vague but the article has 19 occurrences of Hoback. I read the article and had no confusion about this. I find it disingenuous to say they want to evade accountability by omitting it from the headline.