"In particular, they often denounced "anti-Soviet lies." These lies had never previously been reported by them. Nor were they lies. And their exposure as such was the first that readers had been told of them. By reading the denunciation carefully, however, intelligent readers could decipher what the original story must have been. It was a roundabout way of getting information â but it worked."
For us its much easier to listen to the radio and get news from the web. I used to like the sports coverage of the USA Today, but I shant be buying that paper again anytime soon.
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Not to exaggerate or generalize or anything, but in the past week or so it seems to have become very slightly less OK to speak of jihad as an understandable reaction to underlying Muslim grievances. The murder of innocents in a Russian school may have been secondarily the result of a panic or a bungle by Vladimir Putin's "special forces," but nobody is claiming that the real responsibility lies anywhere but on the shoulders of the Muslim fanatics. And the French state's policy of defending secularism in its schools may have been clumsily and even "insensitively" applied, but nobody says that the kidnapping and threatened murder of two French reporters is thereby justified. As for the slaughter of the Nepalese workers in Iraq ⊠you simply have to see the video and hear the Quranic incantations in the voice-over. (I use the words "murder" and "slaughter" by the way, and shall continue to do so, as I hope you will, too. How the New York Times can employ the term "execution" for these atrocities is beyond me.)
i.e. PC language lessens the impact of what really is going on
Contrast the media whitewashing of our Islamofascist enemies with the press coverage of the Waco, Texas, siege in 1993 — which constantly reminded us that David Koresh and his Branch Davidian followers were members of a "peculiar religious sect" (New York Times, March 3rd, 1993) and "a group of religious zealots with a known propensity for violence" (Washington Post, March 2rd, 1993) who were steeped in a "culture of Christian extremism" (San Francisco Chronicle, April 20th, 1993).
A Nexis search of the terms "Branch Davidian" and "religious" and "cult" in the New York Times for the year 1993 yielded 151 hits. The vast majority of these references were in headlines and news articles, as opposed to editorials, letters or book reviews. A Nexis search of the terms "al Qaeda" and "religious" and "cult" in the New York Times for the year 2004 yielded just one article — a magazine piece in March.
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re: google..I just posted on another thread - but I think it bears repeating...
Google has gone downhill since it's IPO. What pops up now appears to be news of the day that, I'm guessing paid the most dollars.
I keyed in time zone the other day and was unable to even locate what I was looking for....the worlds time zones. Intead, I got news of the day that had the words time or zone, but were completely unrelated.
Previously, the first gazillion hits would bring up "time zone".
I use the other search engines now. Apparently Google committed suicide.
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VAMark,
The Logic and Sanity blog http://www.logicandsanity.com/archives/2004/09/beslan_updates.html
- According to one of the hostages terrorists raped some older students.
link http://gzt.ru/headline.gzt?id=64050700000028011
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Turn to the history channel if you have it. They're showing a documentary on the events of 9/11 right now. Never forgive, Never forget!
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09/08/2004 20:05 Comments ||
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And if you don't own the DVD "9/11" already, order it here or here.
Posted by: Dar ||
09/08/2004 22:24 Comments ||
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I am convinced that the MainStreamMedia is not clueless or stupid.
I am convinced that they are deliberately tainting their stories and deliberately and knowingly covering for the their Islamic allies in their hatred-driven program to destroy america and the free world.
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They don't like any "T" words. For instance they won't call Kerry a Traitor, or Jimmah Carter a Twit, or Clinton a Twathound.
It's far to much to ask for members of the RoP to be called Terrorists.
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Sorry the link no longer works. To check for your favorite media outlet, here is the list:
Assailants - National Public Radio.
Attackers â the Economist.
Bombers â the Guardian.
Captors â the Associated Press.
Commandos â Agence France-Presse refers to the terrorists both as "membres du commando" and "commando."
Criminals - the Times (London).
Extremists â United Press International.
Fighters â the Washington Post.
Group â the Australian.
Guerrillas: in a New York Post editorial.
Gunmen â Reuters.
Hostage-takers - the Los Angeles Times.
Insurgents â in a New York Times headline.
Kidnappers â the Observer (London).
Militants â the Chicago Tribune.
Perpetrators â the New York Times.
Radicals â the BBC.
Rebels â in a Sydney Morning Herald headline.
Separatists â the Christian Science Monitor. And Pipes' favorite:
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You missed the beeb's 'armed gang' and 'armed people'
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I hereby vote that we change the designation of MSM - Main Stream Media to TM - Terrorist Media. I mean, when you think about it, aren't they their good buddies and allies to begin with?
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