We've seen the BBC create distance between terrorists and their actions with headlines for 1, 2, 3 bulldozer rampages which focused on the deaths of the Palestinian terrorists rather than on their Israeli victims.
Now, with Shlomo Nativ killed in Bat Ayin by an ax-wielding Palestinian terrorist, the NY Times caught a different strain of the Beeb's bug. Memo to the Times: Axes don't kill people; people with axes kill people.