LINK War of words: why journalists need to understand grammar to write accurately about violence
"The recent killing of unarmed Palestinians by Israeli forces has sparked not only a reasonable outcry, but commentary on the language journalists use to report these events.
For instance, writer and English professor Moustafa Bayoumi, of City University of New York, wrote:
"It is the peculiar fate of oppressed people everywhere that when they are killed, they are killed twice: first by bullet or bomb, and next by the language used to describe their deaths.""
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I actually think they should use more graphic terms, like "splattered" , or "vaporized"for killed. Or, "mangled, dismembered, and enviscerated" for injured. Maybe readers would view it all with greater disgust. "Killed" and "injured" are much too sanitized!
davknight
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"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
~ George Orwell
WilliamCharles
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"All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in subsituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder."
~ Aldous Huxley
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