Handle with care: words like 'conflict', 'terrorist'

[Kayla]

`` a battle over language sometimes more than over anything else.'' -- Diana Buttu, legal advisor to the Palestine Liberation Organization, in an interview with The Christian Science Monitor.

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Cull the work of such news agencies as The Associated Press and Reuters, and newspapers such as The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times and The New York Times -- as many partisan watchdog organizations on both sides of the conflict do -- and you'll see that the word ''terrorist'' rarely appears unless in a direct quote from someone sympathetic to the victims.

When a Palestinian woman walked into a crowded beach restaurant in Haifa a few weeks ago and detonated a bomb, she killed 19 people, including three children.

Yet in a Reuters account, only in the official White House comment was the woman accused of terrorism. According to Reuters, she had waged an ''attack'' -- the verbiage of war -- in retaliation for previous Israeli army actions. The account also said the bombing showed that Palestinian leaders had failed to ''rein in militants,'' an apparent reference to the bomber.






http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/columnists/tom_fiedler/7621087.htm

[Resistance]

1. Of course

The elite media never dares to use the term "terror" to describe Israeli strikes on civilians, even though many IDF attacks are no better than Hamas suicide bombings.

[Kayla]

2. Did you read the article?

You must not have ... what you posted makes that clear.

Won't you please read the article? Thank you.

[SlavesandBulldozers]

3. I did

and i agree with the previous posters statement.

"By any logic, militants engaged in warfare don't blow up little babies."

The IDF blows up little babies, i doubt the Herald has ever called the IDF terrorists. The IDF will say its an accident, but when you fire a Hellfire missile at a car in a crowded square how do you claim its an accident that civilians get hurt.

I know where you're coming from, and I believe the language of "terrorism" is changing to fit perspectives. I've found quite the opposite of what your author at the Miami Herald found, though. I've found the word "terrorism" used ALL OVER THE PLACE when it's not quite appropriate.

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