Media wordplay: Murdered children are women or "youths"

[theHandpuppet]

Please note the headline of this AP story. In the text the deaths of 34 children are reported, but in the headline these same children are described as "youths", just as the raped and murdered Iraqi girl was described as a "young woman". Tell me again that the MSM isn't doing this on purpose. They know the game.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LEBANON_ISRAEL?SITE=OHCIN&SECTION=AMERICAS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Associated Press

Jul 30, 8:51 AM EDT
34 Youths Among 56 Dead in Israeli Attack

By KATHY GANNON
Associated Press Writer
QANA, Lebanon (AP) -- An Israeli airstrike killed at least 56 people, including at least 34 children, in a southern Lebanese village Sunday, the Lebanese Red Cross said. It was the deadliest attack in 19 days of fighting. Lebanese security officials put the toll at 57 dead. Security officials said the toll rose dramatically after 18 people from two families were found in a single room of the building, where dozens of people had been taking refuge from the fighting....

[theHandpuppet]

1. Want more proof?

Tim Russert recapped this massacre by saying the bombing killed "some Lebanese, including several children."

Webster's Dictionary defines the word "several" thusly: "more than two but not many; of an indefinite but small number; few."

He then proceeded to preview the question for his panel this week: Just how dangerous IS Hezbollah?

Oh yes, folks, the media knows how to play this game and we're not calling them on it.