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Fox News’ host Brian Kilmeade says ‘just kill ‘em’ about mentally ill homeless people
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 14 Sep 2025
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Why do journalists do this sort of thing where a guy will literally say that we should murder homeless people and then they try to dress down their language to the point of dishonesty? Euthanasia is when you help something die that is in horrible unyielding pain. Not when you kill something because you don’t know how to take care of it.
Journalists are an endangered breed, Fox certainly doesn't employ any
They're not talking about the language of the Fox presenters. They're talking about the journalists who report on what the Fox presenters said.
They view homeless people as less than human and thus use the same wording as they would about an animal. Convenience euthanasia is when you just kill an animal because you don't want it anymore, but it is still called euthanasia.
I guess what made me find this weaselly language especially sickening is I have long criticized the tendency of people to refer to killing inconvenient animals as “euthanasia” and I would usually ask people if they could imagine calling doing the same thing to people “euthanasia“. Well, I guess this person is happy to.
In the this case, they don't consider them people. The reaction would be entirely different if you were to suggest that someone like Charlie Kirk was "euthanized"
so i reckon they like the fact someone euthanized charlie kirk?
News orgs, and frankly many public institutions, seem to be lliability averse to a fault. My guess is journalists have generally been instructed to use passive language to avoid libel lawsuits due to the expense of settlement or counsel fees.
Passive language has become so common in journalism these days, and the far right terrorist cohort realizes the vocal minority bad faith pearl clutching schtick works well enough that they continue to threaten litigation against objective truth regularly. It's Trump's MO, and I assume it works because those being sued are terrified his base will be out for blood if he doesn't get his way.
The more the news orgs settle and normalize this shit, the more inertia there is to get back to reality. It's maddening, tbh.
FOX has always said it's entertainment, not News. They use that defence in court cases. They're not journalists, they're entertainers.
to be clear I’m quoting the Rolling Stones article that was linked
They are professionals and write however they are paid to write.