{"id":9746,"date":"2015-06-14T16:46:13","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T16:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9746"},"modified":"2015-06-14T16:46:13","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T16:46:13","slug":"courageous-and-brave-not-even-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9746","title":{"rendered":"‘Courageous and brave’? Not even close"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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CNN news anchor Fredericka Whitfield needs — I think — some lessons in how to use the English language.<\/p>\n

She attached the terms “courageous” and “brave” to describe the actions of a man who laid siege to the Dallas Police Department headquarters building before he was shot to death by a police sniper.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/tv\/news\/cnn-anchor-calls-dallas-attack-brave\/ar-BBl6wpK<\/p>\n

My goodness. My head is spinning over that.<\/p>\n

The diver of an armored van opened fire on the police building. He was committing at least two serious felonies: attempted murder and firing a gun in the city limits come to mind most immediately; there might be a dozen more criminal acts involved here. She said: “It was very courageous and brave, if not crazy as well, to open fire on the police headquarters, and now you have this scene, this standoff.”<\/p>\n

Huh?<\/p>\n

The terms “courageous” and “brave” are intended to put a positive description on one’s actions. The actions of this guy never — not ever<\/em> — should be labeled in the manner described by this news anchor.<\/p>\n\n

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CNN news anchor Fredericka Whitfield needs — I think — some lessons in how to use the English language. She attached the terms “courageous” and “brave” to describe the actions of a man who laid siege to the Dallas Police Department headquarters building before he was shot to death by a police sniper. http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/tv\/news\/cnn-anchor-calls-dallas-attack-brave\/ar-BBl6wpK My … Continue reading ‘Courageous and brave’? Not even close<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[1043,1244,1808],"class_list":["post-9746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","category-national-news","tag-cnn","tag-dallas-pd","tag-fredericka-whitfield"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}