What happened to freedom of speech?
It is an attempt to hide facts from the readers/viewers/listeners. It is NOT journalism.
The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) Diversity Committee. I’ll bet you can smell the flatulence 30 miles away when these clowns have a meeting.
How dare you stupid, little Tea Bagger racists think we’re biased!
Don’t you know that calling people names is demeaning?
/sarc
The slime in our society will do ANYTHING for power. Pure hypocrisy: they accuse others of being “un-Constitutional” when they, and their radical leaders, break Constitutional law on a daily basis.
What heresy is this?! Oh wait, it's the Washington TIMES, not the Washington POO.
Oxy-MORON
There lots of politically correct rules in journalism.
For example, the MSM always refer to the Founding Fathers as the “Founders” or the “Framers” of the Constitution. They do this because the term “Founding Fathers” is allegedly offensive to feminists. In that case, it doesn’t matter that they were all men, we can’t use a term that would offend liberal females.
Anyone in a criminal case is said to be an “alleged” criminal in the media. Major Hassan “allegedly” killed those people in Ft. Hood. The people aren’t “allegedly” dead, they are actually dead, but the media always says that some crime “allegedly” happened when a trial is pending.
If I recall correctly, there have been efforts to make pronouns gender neutral.
Homosexual activists have brought pressures to use the term “gay” rather than “homosexual” in any news stories dealing with homosexuality.
After Jesse Jackson made a speech saying that blacks should be known as “African-American”, that term became standard in the MSM, though black is still used. Years ago, the term Negro fell into disuse and was replaced by black.
I’m sure there are other examples of MSM framing discussions by the words they use.
I just call them illegals. The problem is not that we have laws, the problem is, people ignore them. And our politicians cheer the lawbreakers on. Not to mention the mush-headed news media.
I just call them illegals. The problem is not that we have laws, the problem is, people ignore them. And our politicians cheer the lawbreakers on. Not to mention the mush-headed news media.
Rare is the person consistent in the use of language. Entering the USA without permission from the nanny is a paperwork misdemeanor. Tancredo’s HR4437 tried to make it a felony and failed.
Every day I speed and don’t wear my seatbelt on the way to work. So I to am an illegal and working illegally because I get to work illegally, just like other illegals.
We have politicians who swear to uphold the Constitution and then violate both the oath and the Constitution. So they too are illegals in a worse sense than illegal aliens.
Semantics is inconsistent in non-political areas also. When a notorious athlete plays for the other team he is slandered. But when that same athlete signs with my team he suddenly rivals St Paul’s conversion.
Is there objective description of anything? If a tree falls in the forest is there no noise until the courts rule on whether noise occurred?
This is a great article and I am glad they had the guts to write it.
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If the SPJ Diversity committee really wants to push for diversity, why doesn’t it lobby newspapers, radio and television to hire at least one token conservative?
Illegal aliens are not immigrants they are Insurgents..
So the “preferred” phrase is “undocumented immigrant”! Yeah, I BET they prefer that. Just like a bank robber would prefer to be called a customer. I prefer to be called “Mrs. Tom Selleck,” but that don’t make it so. An immigrant is someone who came here legally; therefore, any immigrant would automatically have documents. Therefore, there is no such thing as an “undocumented immigrant.”
But if they don’t like “illegal alien,” I’ll be glad to change what I call them! I think they’d like the new name even less, though.
Ping!
I do believe the labeling is incorrect as it should read “Undocumented Liberals”