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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hate how Hershey worded their press release. "A child was lost". No, a child died. They did not get lost. [/quote]

I hated this too.  [/quote]

We can assume he drowned but we will not truly know until the proper investigation happens. He could have had a medical emergency while in the pool. [/quote]

What does that have to do with the use of the word “lost”?  [/quote]

You prefer died? Passed away? Can't make everyone happy. Who cares?[/quote]

Because words matter - it allows people to hide the truth.

When the electricity goes out, it’s a power failure but power companies don’t like being held responsible so they started spinning them as power outages - a made up word - and now we all say it. Hershey is being careful to use words and a style of phrasing to acknowledge the event in a way that looks sincere - but of course isn’t because a company cannot have feelings - but also avoids blame. It’s gross.[/quote]
It's been a few decades since I took a journalism class but I was taught that the correct way to announce a death was to say someone died, because it removes ambiguity.  [/quote]

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