A.
(1) Reinstating the elided Agent:
(2) Unpacking the metaphorical Agent:
B.
Here, despite the fact that adults are killing children in a refugee camp, no agency whatsoever is construed.
Halliday (2003 [1993]: 215):
… it is precisely in the "reporting" of pronouncements and speeches on the one hand, and of massacres, terrorist acts and nuclear disasters on the other, that linguistic analysis most clearly reveals the opposing ideologies that are being promoted in different organs. Construing events as news is a highly political act.
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