Posted on 05/18/23
| News Source: JNS
The earliest recorded use of the term “shootout”—defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as “a sustained exchange of shooting, a gun-fight”—comes from a 1953 New York Times article, which refers to a “justly famous shoot-out between the Earps and the Clantons in the O-K Corral.”
Merriam-Webster doesn’t invoke that famous 1881 gun battle in Tombstone, Ariz., in its definition of “shootout,” which it renders “a battle fought with handguns or rifles.”
According to @CNN's Christiane Amanpour, three members of the Dee family "were killed in a shootout."
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) May 11, 2023
A shootout is two sides firing at each other.
A mother & her two daughters were shot at close range by Palestinian terrorists.@amanpour, you owe a grieving family an apology. pic.twitter.com/PQUPTfHx5R
Christiane Amanpour, CNN’s chief international anchor, was apparently working from a different definition of the term when she said live on the air of the British-Israeli Dee sisters—Maia, 20, and Rina, 15—“They were killed in a shootout.” (She was reporting the death of their mother, 48-year-old Lucy Dee, from the same terrorist attack.)
Amanpour provided no evidence that any of the three women were armed, let alone returned fire when terrorists shot nearly two dozen bullets at their car—driving it off the road and then murdering them at closer range. (The New York Times has been accused of burying the story.)
HonestReporting has told Amanpour, “You owe a grieving family an apology,” at least since May 11, repeating the request on May 16. “It’s been five days since we called on Amanpour to apologize for saying the Dee family were ‘killed in a shootout.’ Neither she nor CNN has responded,” said the watchdog group.