Convenient Uses of the Passive Voice, and Other Tricks to be Aware of While Consuming Corporate Media

How media practices slow down the dismantling of white supremacy

Last Wednesday, the New York Times summarized the night-time, back-roads death of a Black man, a 49-year-old barber named Ronald Greene — who, when he finally expired from numerous and savage injuries, was surrounded by “at least six” white cops — like this:

“Relatives were initially told that he had died [on May 10, 2019] from injuries he sustained in a crash after he…