terrorist / shmerrorist
Reuters News Service is hacked at a Canadian newspaper for calling a spade a spade.
The story is in
CBC News:
bq. Canada's largest newspaper chain, CanWest Global, is being criticized over its use of the word "terrorist" in stories about the Middle East.
And more:
bq. One of the world's leading news agencies, Reuters, said CanWest newspapers has been altering words and phrases in its stories dealing with the war in Iraq and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Reuters told CBC News it would complain to CanWest about the issue.
An example:
bq. As an example, Schlesinger cited a recent Reuters story, in which the original copy read: "...the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, which has been involved in a four-year-old revolt against Israeli occupation in Gaza and the West Bank."
bq. In the National Post version of the story, printed Tuesday, it became: "...the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a terrorist group that has been involved in a four-year-old campaign of violence against Israel."
I don't know but the second graf reads a lot truer than the first. Less waffling.
Posted by DaveH at September 17, 2004 11:40 AM