"Kevin Gowen" <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> said:

>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.

That's either called a "So-called Boo-boo" or a
"So-called Ouchie".


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