Who's twisting words? The lead begins: The "knockout game" is one of many names given to assaults, therefore knockout game (assault) as it is a type of assault. We need only be concerned with common usage, not some strict or arbitrary "legal definition". Right, I see there is some discussion on the extent to which the phenomenon actually exists, and whether it is to some degree a "media-manufactured" problem. If that is the focus of the article then knockout game (moral panic) probably would not be acceptable, unless there were a strong consensus that it indeed was that. More likely the title would be something like, Controversy over media coverage of so-called "knockout games" -