August 25, 2004
Whoa
The Los Angeles Times may be the nation's best big-market daily. But this was pretty unexpected:
As the [Iraqi soccer] team racked up victories in its first-round matches, Bush began to mention the club in his stump speeches, holding it up as an example of his success in the so-called war on terrorism.
That's got to be the first time the mainstream media has dared to "so-call" the so-called "War On Terrorism". Of course, its still missing the scare-quotes. But, still...
Update, 9/5/04: The Baltimore Sun has one-upped the LA Times, in both so-calling and scare-quoting the so-called "War On Terror" (not to mention taking the piss out of one of its central tenets -- that military force can "win" the "War On Terror"):
Analysts say the incidents show that not only are there no front lines in the "War On Terror" but that there is no single war against it because there are few common causes, no common enemy, and no common strategy for fighting one.
Instead, the events have shown that the so-called war is really a series of mostly unconnected clashes over political, social and religious matters that military might has failed to resolve.
Posted by Eddie Tews at August 25, 2004 11:11 AM
Comments
Yes, The canadian media uses "So-called" or even "President Bushes" War on Terra
-- Posted by: olexicon on August 27, 2004 03:27 PM