Wednesday, March 30, 2005
What the heck do you have to do qualify for the term "terrorist"
...at the New York Times?
Today's Robert Worth story leads with the following:
URL:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/30/international/middleeast/30cnd-iraq.html?hp&ex=1112245200&en=09a97e5c27d983dc&ei=5094&partner=homepage
I see. So terrorists who detonate car bombs outside of elementary schools (what's wrong with the term "elementary school?") still qualify for the neutral term "insurgent."
Shoot up eight pilgrims, and you're a "gunman." Or, again, an "insurgent."
No. "Insurgents" attack military targets. The only people who set off car bombs at schools and who deliberately murder unarmed religious pilgrims are terrorists, by definition.
Did the Times editorial board make a policy decision to avoid using the word "terrorist," even when it so clearly applies here?
I mean, if these people don't qualify as terrorists in the Times' playbook, just who the heck does?
P.S: That's the same Robert Worth who blew it just a few days ago:
http://iraqnow.blogspot.com/2005/03/new-york-times-leads-with-lie.html
I'll defer to The Mesopotamian here:
Splash, out
Jason
Today's Robert Worth story leads with the following:
A car bomb exploded outside a primary school west of Baghdad today, killing a guard, as insurgents launched attacks on pilgrims traveling to Karbala for a Shiite religious festival.
The bomb detonated in the town of Abu Ghraib outside the Abu Ghraib School, Interior Ministry officials said. Five civilians standing nearby were also injured.
South of Baghdad, gunmen opened fire on a minibus full of Shiite pilgrims, wounding eight, police and hospital officials said. The attack took place near Latifiya, a lawless area where insurgents have often attacked Shiite pilgrims on their way to or from the shrine cities of Najaf and Karbala.
URL:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/30/international/middleeast/30cnd-iraq.html?hp&ex=1112245200&en=09a97e5c27d983dc&ei=5094&partner=homepage
I see. So terrorists who detonate car bombs outside of elementary schools (what's wrong with the term "elementary school?") still qualify for the neutral term "insurgent."
Shoot up eight pilgrims, and you're a "gunman." Or, again, an "insurgent."
No. "Insurgents" attack military targets. The only people who set off car bombs at schools and who deliberately murder unarmed religious pilgrims are terrorists, by definition.
Did the Times editorial board make a policy decision to avoid using the word "terrorist," even when it so clearly applies here?
I mean, if these people don't qualify as terrorists in the Times' playbook, just who the heck does?
P.S: That's the same Robert Worth who blew it just a few days ago:
http://iraqnow.blogspot.com/2005/03/new-york-times-leads-with-lie.html
I'll defer to The Mesopotamian here:
The mood, though, is that of bitterness , pain and sorrow as we watch the bodies of our young people being ferried in wooden carts like the fresh meet of carcasses in a slaughterhouse. Holy anger is swelling up, not only against the perpetrators, but also against all who seek to find excuses, glorify the foul murderers by such appellations as "insurgents" or worst still "resistors" and such like; against the theorists and the "commentators"; against anybody who even shows indifference to such heinous butchery.
URL: http://messopotamian.blogspot.com/2005_03_01_messopotamian_archive.html#110971290779934804
Splash, out
Jason
Comments:
"what's wrong with the term "elementary school"?
I don't know. Where I come from "Primary" schools are called "Primary schools".
I guess The term "elementary school" carries more emotional weight and therefore is more suitable to express your moral outrage.
The same kind of emotonal distortion as applied when "insurgent" is used in place of "terrorist".
I don't know. Where I come from "Primary" schools are called "Primary schools".
I guess The term "elementary school" carries more emotional weight and therefore is more suitable to express your moral outrage.
The same kind of emotonal distortion as applied when "insurgent" is used in place of "terrorist".
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you'll forgive the metaphor, but once again you skillfully roll a grenade into the enemy tent.
remeber J, "terrorist" is reserved for the NYT, Hodean and Owl Gore's description of Bush and Tom Delay.
remeber J, "terrorist" is reserved for the NYT, Hodean and Owl Gore's description of Bush and Tom Delay.
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