Michael Cash wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 19:27:12 -0400, "Kevin Gowen"
> <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> belched the alphabet and kept on going
> with:
>
>> A May 22nd internal memo from LA Times editor John Carroll to some
>> of his staffers. The story about the Texas bill may be found at
>> http://tinyurl.com/czji
>
> An alternate explanation may be that the editor is the last person in
> Sepponian journalism to know what "so-called" means. I hear it misused
> frequently by Sepponian reporters.

Indeed. It is the journalistic equivalent of putting hiply ironic quotation
marks around a term in order to distance oneself from those who use the term
earnestly, kind of like the quotation marks that Gold puts around
"counseling". Another great example is the use of the term "so-called
partial birth abortion" by the NY Times et al. Ok, fine. However, they never
tell us what they think delivering a child halfway and then sticking a pair
of scissors into its skull should be called.

-- 
Kevin Gowen