Everyone is defending turf. Aggressive tones are being used to show who is right and who is wrong. The message is lost in the tonal rhetoric. Tone Plagues City Officials Tone is not something to be taken lightly. The words we utter and the sentences we write live long after us.
People interpret the words to suit their own meanings.
When Rudy Giuliani, Mayor of New York City and former candidate for U.S. Senate, was asked about the shooting of of an unarmed man, Patrick Dorismond, by an off-duty detective, he responded by defending the police. We are not sure. The criticism of Giuliani continued. Some spokespeople thought he was condemning whole communities and exhibited a lack of leadership. The Mayor did release the juvenile's entire record.