Emptywheel speak, New York Times listen
by digby
Earlier this week Marcy Wheeler called out the media for its failure to properly call torture torture. Lo and behold:
Over the past few months, reporters and editors of The Times have debated a subject that has come up regularly ever since the world learned of the C.I.A.’s brutal questioning of terrorism suspects: whether to call the practices torture.
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[R]eporters urged that The Times recalibrate its language. I agreed. So from now on, The Times will use the word “torture” to describe incidents in which we know for sure that interrogators inflicted pain on a prisoner in an effort to get information.
Huzzah. The paper of record is going to call something by its proper name. That says something about journalism, but I'll let you figure out what that is.
No word on whether they will also refer to the torturers as "patriots."
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