To: Tumbleweed_Connection
No, it is just a rule of the AP stylebook. Editors may not allow the term "pro-life." It must be called "anti-abortion." They also must call pro-abortion "abortion rights." It's right there in the style book that all editors are required to follow if their stories are carboned onto the AP wire.
Some automaton copy editor was "just following orders" and not gathering the real meaning of the copy. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
4 posted on
03/04/2004 9:57:57 AM PST by
jwalburg
(We CAN Question their Patriotism!)
To: jwalburg
No, they change pro-abortion to pro-choice.
To: jwalburg
Of course, they refuse to admit that every time they use "abortion rights" as a synonym for "abortion," as in "Kerry strongly supports abortion rights," they are editorializing. The AP no longer reports on this issue: It is simply the POSITION of AP that there is a right to abortion.
To: jwalburg
No, it is just a rule of the AP stylebook. Sounds like an issue for the RICO statutes.
Or at the very least violations of rights due to a conspiracy, if everyone is expected to "comply".
Or else? Seig Heil!
22 posted on
03/04/2004 11:16:35 AM PST by
Publius6961
(50.3% of Californians are as dumb as a sack of rocks (subject to a final count).)
To: jwalburg
Sort of like "estate" tax and "death" tax? Liberals prefer the former and conservatives the latter.
31 posted on
03/04/2004 5:51:24 PM PST by
joonbug
To: jwalburg
Didn't you do the same thing with your use of pro-abortion rather than pro-choice?
34 posted on
03/04/2004 6:03:07 PM PST by
CalKat
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