NY Times Headlines Do Work of RNC. Frickin' Whores!

[BurtWorm]

"Bush Forcefully Defends War, Citing Safety of U.S. and World"

Now why wasn't "Stubbornly" or "Bone-headedly" the Times' adverb of choice there? :grr:

[Speck Tater]

1. "Forcefully" seems a fair and unbiased word to me.

If they had said "stubbornly" or "valiantly" I would say that the headline was biased, but "forcefully" seems non-judgemental and unbiased to me.

[BurtWorm]

6. What does forcefully mean?

force·ful ( P ) Pronunciation Key (fôrsfl, frs-)
adj.
Characterized by or full of force; effective: was persuaded by the forceful speaker to register to vote; enacted forceful measures to reduce drug abuse.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=forcefully

It's a biased term. It is a total stretch to call it unbiased.

As unblock asked: Why use any adverb in a headline? Why not just "Defends War?" Why give the fuckin' impression that your paper was persuaded by the defense?!

[NewYorkerfromMass]

11. Who cares? Everyone knows he's wrong now anyway

He's going down in flames. Forcefully so.

[unblock]

2. why throw in an adverb at all?

[xxqqqzme]

3. considering how many times

he repeated it - why not 'repeatedly' or 'continually'

[BeyondGeography]

4. I agree with you

When I saw that headline, I saw the ghost of Judith Miller.

5. how about Brazenly

jingoistically

messianically


the hell with being fair and balanced

[kanrok]

8. How about "douchebagingly?"

[seasat]

7. Desperately sounds like a better word to me.

:evilgrin:

[olddem43]

9. I think they got that from Cheney, who -

defended his F-bomb by saying "I expressed myself forcefully and felt better" In other words, Bush must have told them "go F yourself"

[BurtWorm]

10. And the Times promptly complied.

:eyes: