26 septembre 2004 08:24
Why Reuters Won't Say "Terrorist"
Isabelle Hontebeyrie
Reuters' global managing editor has openly acknowledged that Arab intimidation influences his agency’s news coverage.
So guess what... Canadian media organisation CanWest is replacing every instance of 'militants', 'activists', 'gunmen' etc. in Reuters dispatches by the more accurate and honest 'terrorists'. And Live From Brussels blogger has a Movable Type plugin, the CanWest filter. Just unzip and drop it into your MT plugins folder, and when publishing an MT entry select the 'CanWest' filter as text formatting. It will change all instances of the words militant, activist, fighter, gunman and resistance into the T-word... [Via editorsweblog]
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Salam,
There must be first a definition of the term terrorist.
If you have one I will be happy to hear it from you.
See the last crimes of Israel or USA for example, how to call them ? Targeted murders ? Chirurgical strikes against civilians ?
I wait patiently for your definition of Terrorism ©.
Posted by/Écrit par: Abdel