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To: LindyBill who started this subject7/3/2004 7:17:04 PM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (1) of 793834
 
'Militant' Word of the Day
By James Joyner on Media - Command Post blog

Cross-post from OTB: “Militant” seems to have become the media meme for describing those who murder Americans: Voice of America — Militant Group Says It Has Beheaded US Marine BBC — Iraq militants ‘behead US marine’ National Post/Canada Press — Iraqi militant group claims on website it has beheaded U.S. marine News.com (Australia) — US marine beheaded, say militants News24 (South Africa) — Militants claim 4th beheading China View — Militant group claims to behead US Marine AP/AJC — Iraq Militants Claim Marine Beheading ChannelNews Asia — Islamic militant group claims to decapitate US marine While several of the headlines showing on GoogleNews as of 1625 EST didn’t include the word “militant,” all of those headlines avoided description of the murderers entirely. Terrorist, killer, murderer, Islamist, jihadist, and so forth were all bypassed....
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