The most common definition of the word “misled” is “lied to” but headline writers at the Post, Times, and Wall Street Journal all played it safe—maybe at the suggestion of their lawyers—by using “misled’ in their headlines about the testimony of Amazon executives before Congress.
a blog by Jack Limpert, Editor of The Washingtonian for more than 40 years.
When Headline Writers at the WaPo, NYTimes, and WSJ Agree That Amazon May Have “Misled” Congress
October 18, 2021
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