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To: marktwain
.....the alleged intruder as 14-year-old Keontre Reese.

What do the media style and dogma guides actually say? If you think the victim/perpetrator might be black, you MUST use 'alleged'?

This is getting really, really tiresome.

4 posted on 12/26/2014 5:03:25 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Gaffer
What do the media style and dogma guides actually say? If you think the victim/perpetrator might be black, you MUST use 'alleged'?

No, that has nothing to do with race. They have been doing that for as long as I can remember. It's CYA against predatory lawyers.

9 posted on 12/26/2014 5:12:16 AM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away)
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