Local TV news wanker
Craig Cannon used the Ari Fleischer invention, adopted by Fox News, "homicide bomber." Wikipedia:
Some effort has been made to replace the term suicide bombing with the term homicide bombing. The first such use was by White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer in April 2002[31] with the intent to emphasize the murder of the bomber's victims and also to de-emphasize any self-sacrificial connotations associated with the term suicide.
With the exceptions of Fox News Channel and the New York Post (both owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation) the phrase is not used.[32]
An obvious problem with using this phrase for "suicide bombing" is that literally, the phrase "homicide bombing" covers any bombing that kills another person, whether or not the bomber has also died.
posted by the spook @ 10:51 PM
1 Comments:
At 7:19 AM,
Don Elkins said…
That stuff really bothers me. The same misuse of language also extends to religion, local politics and economics on local television news. It speaks volumes about either the poor quality of education for television journalists at some schools, or speaks volumes about the personal predispositions of those in question. Individual words can often speak volumes, and those who pay little attention to that fact - especially on tv news shows where time is tight -- risk doing more harm than good. Sorry to read this, but far from surprised.
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