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BBC rejects call to change terminology
The BBC has rejected a call made by an independent panel studying charges of bias in its coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to change its editorial policies on the use of the word “terrorist” and appoint a senior editor to oversee its Middle East coverage.
Using the word “terrorist” to describe attacks on civilians, BBC management argued in a paper released June 19, would make the “very value judgments” it had been asked to eschew.
Indeed. Who knows, maybe killing a civilian or two is a vital bodily function without which these nice “militant” folks will simply wither away?
Still, for variety sake: I had a few options of non-judgmental terms offered sometimes ago to AP. Take a look here.
Otherwise: feh.
Clueless. Completely clueless.
No matter what you think about the entire situation, can’t we agree that the teenagers flirting over pizza at Sbarro are off-limit? Can’t we agree that targeting them is, absolutely, undeniably, terrorism?