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@estelle As you point out, we are so used to subject-verb-object word order that passive voice can insinuate the object is the actor. As in, "mistakes were made" = the mistakes made themselves!

"Rewriting a passive construction to be active almost always makes what you’re saying clearer."

Example: Millions of dollars were embezzled from the company.
Revision: Two executives embezzled millions of dollars from the company.

Eva Parish: https://evaparish.com/blog/how-i-edit#passive-voice
@patrascan @Nazani @technique @writing

"After six year-old Hind Rajab was killed by the Israeli army, Britain’s national media failed to unequivocally pinpoint Israel as responsible, refused to follow up the story and cover important new information, and then moved on."

Des Freedman: https://www.declassifieduk.org/found-dead-in-gaza-no-murdered-by-israel/

'The Labour administration […] intends to flatten social, political – and therefore class – conflict, and reassert the state as the sole “legitimate” agent of politics in Britain.'

'One could reasonably suggest that the particular vitriol reserved for Muslims by the Labour leadership comes down to an as yet not-entirely-tameable internationalist consciousness among Muslim communities in Britain, and their proven willingness to exert this electorally.'

Azfar Shafi writes: https://vashtimedia.com/starmers-project-depoliticisation/ @supremacy

"About half of Britain considers itself to have a working class background. And yet only 8% of those who get jobs in telly are from the same background."

"Over the five years from 2018, distrust in the BBC had grown from 11% to 26%."

Carol Vorderman: https://bylinetimes.com/2024/08/30/carol-vorderman-alternative-mactaggart-speech-tv-industry/

News outlets didn’t make a mistake. They knowingly aired disinformation and peddled fake news. Admitting that requires a troubling recalibration of perspective

Jonathan Cook: https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/the-medias-role-in-lying-about-amsterdam @ethics

"BBC staffers reveal editor's 'entire job' to whitewash Israeli war crimes"
at The Cradle: https://thecradle.co/articles/bbc-staffers-reveal-editors-entire-job-to-whitewash-israeli-war-crimes