Kevin Gowen wrote:

> Declan Murphy wrote:
> 
>> Kevin Gowen wrote:
>>
>>> Michael Cash wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 23:00:05 GMT, "necoandjeff" <spam@schrepfer.com>
>>>> brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed:
>>
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>>>> Pretty soon you'll be demanding that the newspapers say "Nanking 
>>>>> incident"
>>>>> instead of "Nanking massacre..."
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Or call Islamofascists who shoot children in the back "insurgents" or 
>>> militants. Actually, the "news" services such as Reuters already do 
>>> that.
>>
>>
>>
>> Why would someone call insurgents, the resistance, militants, freedom 
>> fighters or patriots something like "Islamofascists", and then claim 
>> that newswires were not being objective through their use of language?
> 
> 
> Because they are not. What does my terminology have to do with it? Nothing.
> 
> Reuters and other "news" services refuse to even use the word 
> "terrorist". By it own admission, Reuters does this to appease the 
> terrorists.
> http://tinyurl.com/3lhro
> 

Apparently "objectivity" is something other people should do.