More on the Cultural Schism.
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But if the participants were together, it was only in a physical sense. Western panelists remained, for the most part, poles apart from their Muslim colleagues when the topics of semantics arose. There were, for example, irreconcilable differences over the use of words to describe what most Western journalist called "terrorists." Muslim and Arab participants preferred the label "militants," "freedom fighters," or a most commonly used term in the Arab media to describe a suicide bomber, "martyr."
Despite their diverging opinions the Doha panelists remained civil. The same, however, could hardly be said of the angry crowds of Muslim demonstrators who took to the streets of Europe, the Middle East and Asia, protesting a Danish newspaper cartoon depicting the Prophet Mohammad in an irreverent manner.
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This UPI article by the international editor seems determined to accentuate the difference, then further it.
I'm an American and I also prefer the term freedom fighter to insurgent. In fact, I disagree with the conclusion that western journalists prefer insurgent over freedom fighter. I'd say corporate journalists from the west prefer it. The rest of us understand that it is an editorial term designed to push the agenda of the Washington brown shirts.
Just because some cockeyed bimbo like Judith "steno girl" Miller says "insurgents" doesn't mean everyone agrees.
Also, I'm troubled by the fact that Al Jazeera isn't specifically mentioned in the article. They are one of the best, most reliable journalistic outfits around, far less biased that UPI, and they don't exacerbate the culture war at all. Nor does Amy Goodman. She was there too.
But I agree about Islamic fanatics who want to suppress freedom of speech. I just think the real culture war is between the sexes, and possibly the classes, not the Muslims and the western "democracies"
Also Claude, you can't publish just anything you want in a democracy, though it is nice of you to say so. Some of them, though not the United States of Stupidity, have laws that demand a modicum of truth in their news.
What did I expect from a corporate pig like UPI but a right wing slanted grunt?
But if the participants were together, it was only in a physical sense. Western panelists remained, for the most part, poles apart from their Muslim colleagues when the topics of semantics arose. There were, for example, irreconcilable differences over the use of words to describe what most Western journalist called "terrorists." Muslim and Arab participants preferred the label "militants," "freedom fighters," or a most commonly used term in the Arab media to describe a suicide bomber, "martyr."
Despite their diverging opinions the Doha panelists remained civil. The same, however, could hardly be said of the angry crowds of Muslim demonstrators who took to the streets of Europe, the Middle East and Asia, protesting a Danish newspaper cartoon depicting the Prophet Mohammad in an irreverent manner.
[...]
This UPI article by the international editor seems determined to accentuate the difference, then further it.
I'm an American and I also prefer the term freedom fighter to insurgent. In fact, I disagree with the conclusion that western journalists prefer insurgent over freedom fighter. I'd say corporate journalists from the west prefer it. The rest of us understand that it is an editorial term designed to push the agenda of the Washington brown shirts.
Just because some cockeyed bimbo like Judith "steno girl" Miller says "insurgents" doesn't mean everyone agrees. Also, I'm troubled by the fact that Al Jazeera isn't specifically mentioned in the article. They are one of the best, most reliable journalistic outfits around, far less biased that UPI, and they don't exacerbate the culture war at all. Nor does Amy Goodman. She was there too.
But I agree about Islamic fanatics who want to suppress freedom of speech. I just think the real culture war is between the sexes, and possibly the classes, not the Muslims and the western "democracies"
Also Claude, you can't publish just anything you want in a democracy, though it is nice of you to say so. Some of them, though not the United States of Stupidity, have laws that demand a modicum of truth in their news.
What did I expect from a corporate pig like UPI but a right wing slanted grunt?
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