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jsburbidge) wrote2025-04-13 07:19 am
jsburbidge) wrote2025-04-13 07:19 am
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Active and Passive
In journalism, the use of the passive voice, usually discouraged elsewhere stylistically, seems to be endemic in headlines.
The problem is that the impact of the headline becomes very different when the agent is omitted. The CBC has a headline: "Carney attacked for wanting 'free ride,' 'hiding' from public amid latest campaign break". It would leave a different impression if it said "Leaders of the CPC and Bloc attack Carney for wanting 'free ride,' 'hiding' from public amid latest campaign break", which is in fact what the article is about.
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As far as I am concerned the CBC basically did itself in in 2008, when they gutted the old CBC-FM.
So that would be a place to start...
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That is when they started pursuing market share goals rather than common cultural understanding goals, yeah.
(You are not the only person I know who has that opinion, either.)