Posted on 01/31/2005 2:21:48 PM PST by cowboy_code
I am really tired on how the battle over incorrect use of the newsmedia story facts about this wonderful patriotic election are seemingly being false on TV and in print. The current news is wrongfully using the false term of the ememy forces as being "insurgents". They are not, in a majority of the cases. This is being proven to all with military investigations.
Months ago, there was a careful press battle over the newsmedia being incessitantly WRONG and BIASED in calling the armed enemy, "insurgents". This is a liberal, soft, vague and inaccurate term. You could experience it on TV and at press conferences. For quite some time months back, the media was held accountable over this. Media was corrected because the media wasn't allowed to get away with it's faulty sloppy newswriting with it's flagrant wrong use of this term in their incessant negative stories.
TODAY, things seem to have slipped backwards. The media is AGAIN is arrogantly editoralizing to us all by using the loaded "unsurgent" term again. How will stop?
On the moment of this HUGE successful next step in Iraq's election of these brave Iraqi people, the media is content to "piss on the parade" and constantly deal negatively with the bad news involving the questionable "insurgents" term. Terrorists, criminals, foreign soldiers.......is more like it! I'm fed up!
I'm glad I'm not the only one irritated by the use of the term insurgent. The fatuous old saw - "one man's terrorist is another's freedom fighter" is total nonsense. Freedom fighters don't saw the heads off people and blow up women and children.
I have seen this sentiment expressed several times here and I agree with it (I prefer the word "fascists") but you can't really blame the media when CentCom uses the same terminology (search back for some FR threads).
The Iraqis fed up and sick of it call them terrorists (and worse).
The "terrorist" label has my vote.
Just call 'em Dims. Same thing isn't it? At least, all of their talking points seem to be written by the same person.
I vote for calling them what they are "terrorists". And since this is a vanity post, I'd like to add something else that really gets my goat.....why does the press still call Pres. Bush - Mr. Bush? That grates on my nerves too. I'm sure if scary Kerry would have gotten elected the press would be calling him Pres.
As I understand the terms, "insurgent" is almost value-neutral.
"Freedom-fighter" is complimentary.
"Terrorist" is pejorative.
"Insurgent" describes the fact that they are in opposition without necessarily commenting on the methods they use in that opposition.
Personally, I prefer "terrorist scum," but it is theoretically possible for honorable insurgents to attack legitimate American and Iraqi military targets and be true insurgents rather than terrorists. Although there don't seem to be many of these guys around.
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