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To: Sean_Anthony

Headline disparages PC, but uses the term(s) alleged and allegedly many times. She was either raped or she wasn’t... Sheesh.


3 posted on 03/25/2017 12:35:31 PM PDT by Mathews (Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV), Luke 22:36 (NIV))
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To: Mathews

The use of “allegedly” isn’t PC, but a legal issue. For decades now, news writers have had to use that term unless and until a perp has been convicted of a crime. Otherwise, they could get sued for libel if that person is acquitted.


8 posted on 03/25/2017 12:51:27 PM PDT by lbtbell
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