November 10, 2003
Freedom Of The Presses
So the Los Angeles Times is no longer permitting use of the phrase "resistance fighters" in reference to "the Iraqis who have killed more than 100 U.S. soldiers since Washington declared major combat over in May" because the phrase romanticises the resistance and evokes World-War-II-era heroism.
And we know the LA Times would never permit the romanticisation and/or heroic World-War-II-era evocation of the "coalition forces" who have killed 20,000 or so Iraqi conscripts and civilians since Washington declared major combat initiated in March. Right?
The Times' editorial staff apparently missed, by the by, a U.S. soldier having made reference to an "Iraqi freedom fighter" on Nightline last week. (Much obliged if anybody can track down a transcript -- it was the November 3 edition of the program.)
Posted by Eddie Tews at November 10, 2003 05:01 PM
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