A Terrorist By Any Other Name
Militants – The Australian, SMH, The Age, Herald Sun, AP, Sky News, ReutersMilitant Islamic captors – BBC Militant group – USA Today Kidnappers – Washington Post Insurgents – New York Times
Not surprisingly, the Arab media outlets used even more “sterile” language:
Resistance group – Al Jazeera al Qaeda kidnappers – Al Bawaba
It really makes you wonder whether the media are secretly rooting for the terrorists.
Islamic terrorists have beheaded South Korean captive Kim Sun-il in Iraq, in yet another sickening display of their contempt for human life.
Yet despite the brutality of these killings, the media is referring to these murderers as anything but what they really are: terrorists.
A quick read of approximately a dozen reports of this beheading in major media outlets resulted in only two of them – Fox News and WorldNetDaily, referring to the killers as terrorists. The others referred to them as follows:
About the Author
An Australian immigrant to Israel, Aussie Dave has been blogging since early 2003.Filed Under: MT Archives
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