Who is a terrorist and what defines terrorism? ABC Radio National's Media Report investigates:
Author Phil Rees ("Dining with Terrorists"): "...In using it [the word terrorism], you are buying into the support for the policies of the United States and George Bush..."
Host Richard Aedy: "Do you really think that? Do you think they’ve come to own that word?"
Phil Rees: "I do, and American military strategists will agree with me on this. They accept it, because after the end of the Cold War, they were looking for a new doctrine that would legitimise the role of the United States as the only superpower."
Read the whole interview.
Author Phil Rees ("Dining with Terrorists"): "...In using it [the word terrorism], you are buying into the support for the policies of the United States and George Bush..."
Host Richard Aedy: "Do you really think that? Do you think they’ve come to own that word?"
Phil Rees: "I do, and American military strategists will agree with me on this. They accept it, because after the end of the Cold War, they were looking for a new doctrine that would legitimise the role of the United States as the only superpower."
Read the whole interview.
2 Comments:
Indeed. Such a difficult debate. Taking on another's language is not what journalists should be doing. The fact that so many journos have, since 9/11, is worrying in the extreme.
"Taking on another's language is not what journalists should be doing."
As Annabelle Lukin likes to point out, journalists' own language ain't so hot either.
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