News Quotes

Do you find that quotes in news articles (at times) overstate the obvious?

Examples:

SEATTLE, March 27, 2006
"It's never been like him to snap," a friend is quoted as saying of Kyle Huff who apparently returned to a party he had attended, armed with a shotgun and killed 6 people, injured 2 others, before turning the gun on himself.

If the definition of snapping is going on a killing spree, I would think and hope not.


SELMER, Tenn. Mar 24, 2006 (AP)
"We've known from the beginning that she was either a suspect or a victim," said Jennifer Johnson, spokeswoman for the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.

Would seem she would have to be either a suspect or victim until she was found and the truth determined.