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A pediatric doctor at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia was killed while riding her bike in Center City on Wednesday night.

https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/deadly-3-car-crash-rittenhouse-philadelphia/3915690/

The original post on the Philadelphia subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/philadelphia/comments/1e5wkv0/insane_accident_on_18th_and_spruce/

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[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 216 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (41 children)

A pediatric doctor at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia was killed while riding her bike in Center City on Wednesday night.

The use of passive voice in the first sentence does a lot of work shifting blame away from the driver and the car centric systems in an "objective" effort.

How about:

Cyclist Barbara Friedes died when the driver of a car hit her in the bike lane on Wednesday night.

[–] PedestrianError@towns.gay 39 points 2 months ago (13 children)

@apfelwoiSchoppen @ByteOnBikes Active voice would be, “A driver killed…”

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Both killed and died are active voice.

[–] PedestrianError@towns.gay 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

@apfelwoiSchoppen But functionally, the victim didn’t die on her own, she died as the direct result of the driver hitting her. For the purpose of accurately portraying who took an action and who was acted upon, it should emphasize the driving, not the dying.

[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The discussion was active voice vs passive voice, not functionality of active voice vs functionality of differently-worded active voice. They're both still active voice.

[–] PedestrianError@towns.gay -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

@PapaStevesy IMO active voice includes focusing the sentence on the subject that did the action, not the one that was acted upon but by all means let’s argue about grammatical definitions instead of the problem of motorists killing people and journalists normalizing it. 🙄

[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I mean, you're literally the one who started the argument, being dismissive and condescending about it now just makes you look like a sore loser.

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You're the one doing that. Killed/died same difference, but I apologize for not using the same verb as the original quote for clarity.

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