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To: unclewest who wrote (20724)	12/21/2003 5:47:59 AM
From: LindyBill	of 793879

The deceased former fuerher and Reich Chancellor": According to a column in The Sun (U.K.) (not exactly an impartial source, it seems, but I have no reason to doubt the factual allegations), BARMY BBC bosses have banned reporters from calling tyrant Saddam Hussein a former dictator. Instead, staff must refer to the barbaric mass murderer as “the deposed former President”. The astonishing edict was seized on by MPs last night as more proof of a Left-wing bias inside the BBC against the Iraqi war. . . . Labour MP Ann Clwyd, who chairs the Indict group which has dossiers on the crimes of Saddam, his sons and henchmen, was astounded at the BBC’s stance. She said: “It’s frankly ridiculous. Saddam Hussein is a despot, a murderer and a torturer. He will have to answer charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.” . . . The BBC said the email spelling out the instruction was sent to reporters on its online website, which serves a global audience. A spokeswoman said: “This was reiterating existing guidelines to remind BBC News Online journalists of the need to use neutral language.” Later she said the ban on calling Saddam a dictator did not apply to domestic services. Seriously, there really isn't that much of a difference between that and a mandate that journalists say "the deceased former fuerher and Reich Chancellor." I'm not fond of promiscuous comparisons to Nazism, but the analogy here seems quite apt. volokh.com

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