--- Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:
Calling this squad terrorists,
calling their act murder, presuming that the squad
was from Al-Aqsa... all seem
to be strategies to inflame the issue with
unverified facts.
...Hence 'disruption,' which appears aimed toward
sabotaging progress. I dont think thats entirely the
case here; the term 'terrorist' is inapropriate as a
primary descriptor; but much of American political
rhetoric uses it. If I replace the term terrorist with
militant, am I farting in the wind, or will I receive
some support? This is a general editorial-type
decision with regard to what terms are NPOV.
To my knowlege, an 'editorial decision process' about
anything (other than the general concept of NPOV) let
alone what terms to avoid has yet to be tried here. It
should be; we should have an editorial board that sets
some journalistic NPOV standards. Heck, even the
Reuters article that Lance6 was quoting was just
mostly an up to the minute hack job.
S
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