--- Ray Saintonge saintonge@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.
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