The purpose of a news report should be to inform the reader what
happened.
That's all. Once it attempts in addition to evoke a particular
emotional
reaction in the reader it ceases to be (only) a news report and becomes
an
editorial. For this reason, it is better to choose words that describe
the deed
without an emotional undertone. Thus "kill", "shot dead", etc, are
to
be
prefered over "murder", "cut down", "slaughtered" etc..
Zero.
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