your quick on the insults and slow on the uptake.
i have said nothing about the act - just that changing the term to something less descriptive but more acceptable to your base shows a clear agenda.
when a reporter reports they should at least have the integrity not to be so blatant in their agenda.
The description is factual. What's wrong with an agenda of taking the focus away from the criminal and putting it on the victim?
it's a term without meaning.
i assume when we talk about a bomber that there was an intent to kill. i further assume that when they report the number of people killed that they were killed in a homicide.
homicide bomber as a term gives me no new information. it's redundant.
truck bomber. mail bomber. suicide bomber. those tell me something. homicide bomber... all that tells me is someone died - a piece of news guaranteed to be elsewhere in the article.
and you need to ask yourself - if the term is all that great why is it that fox news is the only outlet that uses 'homicide bomber?' the answer is simple - they're pushing an agenda and playing to a base.