Media employ verbal gymnastics to avoid saying "Cheney shot hunting partner"
February 17, 2006 6:55 pm ET
SUMMARY: Numerous media outlets and commentators have gone to great lengths to avoid using some version of the simplest construction to describe Vice President Dick Cheney's accidental shooting of a hunting partner, Harry Whittington: Cheney shot Whittington. Instead, the media have come up with alternative formulations that have the effect of distancing Cheney from the incident.
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