Titles Set The Tone

It is real interesting to read the title of news stories. They can be reporting exactly the same thing but you get a different feeling from each.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MAD_COW?SITE=DCTMS&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">Calves Face Slaughter Over Mad Cow Case</a><br />n<a href="http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=GBJL5EYLUAGLECRBAELCFFA?type=topNews&storyID=4075861">U.S. to Destroy 450 Calves in Mad Cow Probe </a><br />n<br />nThe difference in the way a person sees the story when slaughter is used in one and destroy is used in the other is amazing. Guess we know where the AP reporter falls on the issue. Don't get me wrong, it is sad that these calves are going to be put down (yet another term for the same thing) just to placate the public that the government is doing some thing to take care of the <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym> issue. I know a persons choice of words sets the tone of what they are saying, but this one really struck me.<br />n<br />n<b>Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.<br />nBen Hecht (1893 – 1964)</b>