[Hit & Run Poster]

The news media, the filter through which Americans receive their information, is reluctant to define the enemy. Indeed, within the last week, it has become politically incorrect to describe the Islamic terrorists who blew up the World Trade Center and Pentagon, murdering thousands of innocent Americans, as "Islamic terrorists."

Stephen Jukes, Reuters' global head of news, decreed that the giant wire service's 2,500 journalists should not use the T-word unless in a direct quote.

"We all know that one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter and that Reuters upholds the principle that we do not use the word terrorist," he wrote in an internal memo. "To be frank, it adds little to call the attack on the World Trade Center a terrorist attack."

In 1990 Rush Limbaugh warned that Political Correctness, especially on the college campuses, was becoming the Fascism of America. In this case, I think Rush has been proven "More than Right." Who could have predicted such sheer, stark-raving mad lunacy would develop from the PC movement?

Even here on FR, the PC crowd sometimes jumps in with such whimpy fury, that I fear at the rate we are going, in a few more years, an excellent article posting such as this one would be pulled by the PC Police.

Thanks for the head's up, JohnHuang2, this represents an absolutely awful & nefarious social development.

[SuziQ]

Stephen Jukes, Reuters' global head of news, decreed that the giant wire service's 2,500 journalists should not use the T-word unless in a direct quote.

Hubby and I were watching Imus this morning, and he mentioned this and the fact that CNN was following suit. He was railing about what idiots they were! And he mentioned that hardly anyone ever watches CNN anyway!