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AP: Avoid using 'alt-right' without context
thehill.com ^ | 11/28/16 | Brooke Seipel

Posted on 11/28/2016 1:42:13 PM PST by ColdOne

The Associated Press Monday released new guidelines for referencing the "alt-right," which ask that journalists use the term alongside its definition and in context of its association with racist beliefs.

ADVERTISEMENT The new guidelines read:

"'Alt-right' (quotation marks, hyphen and lower case) may be used in quotes or modified as in the 'self-described' or 'so-called alt-right' in stories discussing what the movement says about itself. Avoid using the term generically and without definition, however, because it is not well known and the term may exist primarily as a public-relations device to make its supporters' actual beliefs less clear and more acceptable to a broader audience."

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: altright; ap; demmediacollusion
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To: Stevenc131
Correct usage: The alt-right is made up of violent racists who support the racist Donald Trump whose supporters are all violent racists.

Deplorable. You could have easily worked another "violent" in there.

41 posted on 11/28/2016 2:46:16 PM PST by Rinnwald
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To: Mr. K

The Alt right is anyone the left fears.


42 posted on 11/28/2016 3:05:02 PM PST by LambSlave
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To: ColdOne

This is a good thing. Instead of throwing the term around, implying that is has *anything at all* with the conservative right, they are stating that the term must be clearly defined and only used in reference to neo-nazi-ish organizations.


43 posted on 11/28/2016 3:33:21 PM PST by Theo (FReeping since 1998 ... drain the swamp.)
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To: ColdOne

Well, that should be true for any label.


44 posted on 11/28/2016 3:47:03 PM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: ColdOne

just make certain to mention the names of fake news sites often

best free advertising ever


45 posted on 11/28/2016 3:53:18 PM PST by vooch
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To: ColdOne

Alt-right is just a term to toss out to silence people on the right. It’s a propaganda tool.

They label someone Alt-right, and a lot of people read no further.

The media has destroyed it’s rep., and it seems intent on making sure it doesn’t get it back.


46 posted on 11/28/2016 3:54:18 PM PST by DoughtyOne (jcon40, "Are we be coming into the age of Sanity?")
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To: DoughtyOne

Everything the left uses is propaganda. They gotta keep the truth quite all the time. They cannot survive with the truth.....one main reason Trump won, he tells the truth, not afraid to do so either.

Took out media with his run, one of the best elections ever!


47 posted on 11/28/2016 3:57:21 PM PST by ColdOne ((poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~WE DID IT DEPLORABLES!EraseThe0bagambiLegacy!)
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To: ColdOne

He took out a lot of people, and some we had thought were on our side.

You’re right. Best election ever!

The guy never quits!


48 posted on 11/28/2016 4:01:31 PM PST by DoughtyOne (jcon40, "Are we be coming into the age of Sanity?")
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Asspress, Rooters, and the Yahoos are the worst cockroaches of the bunch.


49 posted on 11/28/2016 4:06:39 PM PST by Luke21
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To: manc

“A term just invented by the left wing MSM t try and discredit conservatives.”

It’s what they did to McCarthy, the John Birch Society, and anti-communists in the fifties. And they were damned successful.


50 posted on 11/28/2016 4:08:43 PM PST by Luke21
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To: Mr. K
does anyone know who this “alt-right’ thingy is?

Why, it's us deplorables, Mr. K or basically anyone the left, aka media, wants to demonize or belittle. No doubt they will come up with another catch phrase next month to use to further their evil and vile ambitions 'cause that's just who and what they are.

51 posted on 11/28/2016 4:43:24 PM PST by Boomer
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To: Luke21

Agree, but the left are successful, because our side uses their words.
For instance, homosexuals were homosexuals, the left came in and said gay, and now our side uses the term.
They were called illegals, but now the left uses undocumented, and now our side uses the term.

To stop the left , then we have to stop using their words to fit their narrative, and no I won’t hold my breath to wait for it to happen.


52 posted on 11/28/2016 6:34:11 PM PST by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: ColdOne

alt -left
patty wacko murray
bernie sell out sanders
fauxahauntas warren
the black congressional caucus..
LOONEY TUNES
FREESHEET HEROES
main stream media
george nazi jewboy soros
BLM
pizza pedos
and every wacko fringe group imaginabale...


53 posted on 11/28/2016 7:22:35 PM PST by zzwhale
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To: manc

You have made a good point, manc.
That is the exact reason I do not use their term "Progressive" as that word still has good attributes. Who is against progress, right?
I instead stick to descriptions like leftwinger, socialist, or communist.

54 posted on 11/28/2016 8:43:17 PM PST by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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