[American Thinker] Navy destroyer in Sea of Japan: A sideways collision or more fake news?
By Brian C. Joondeph
Yesterday’s news, aside from the usual Trump obstructing, colluding, and making money on his investments, included a ship collision. As described by ABC, a "Navy destroyer collides with container ship off coast of Japan." NBC had a similar headline, "Navy destroyer collides with ship off Japan."
Fox News worded their headline a little differently, "US Navy involved in collision." As did CNN saying, "Navy destroyer collision off Japan."
It was a terrible accident as US sailors are missing and potentially injured or worse, but my point is regarding the choice of words describing what happened.
The dictionary definition of collide is "to hit something violently." Something hits something else. A verb. Seems straightforward. The word collision is a noun, an event that occurred. Not clear is what hit what.
Two of the above mention stories uses the word "collision", which is clearly what happened yesterday. Two other stories used the word "collide", meaning one ship hit the other ship. The headlines, by saying the US Navy ship collided with the Japanese container ship, imply that the Navy ship hit the container ship.
What do the pictures say? This first photo is of the US Navy destroyer. |