I see where you're going with this. But the media is up in arms over this killing yet nothing is being said about the murder at the recruiting office. It's hard for me to see the media backing off on verbiage yet going all out to condemn the act. No, I think this is merely one journalist's choice of words.
What one journalist writes, the others pick up.
I know what they're doing, and it's laughable. I used to work for the media years ago...way back when they actually reported the truth. They are lemmings now.