official admits that government -- uh....
I believe it was Bill Boyarsky who, many years ago, wrote a column about his early days at the Los Angeles Times in which he discussed that paper's former ban of the highly impolite word "rape." The preferred euphemism? "Criminal assault." Boyarsky remembered writing a story that said a woman was (I'm approximating the quote) "thrown down the stairs, kicked in the face, beaten with a lead pipe, and slammed repeatedly into the pavement, but she was not criminally assaulted."So I have to wonder how the AP will handle this story.
posted by Chris Bray @ 9:35 AM
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So I have to wonder how the AP will handle this story.
No need to wonder. They found the perfect approach. The story is titled, "White House answers judge's finding of US torture". But after several paragraphs describing the torture and quoting the judge saying it was torture, in an article about the judges "finding" of torture, they proceed to write "The alleged torture...". And how did the White House "answer the judges finding"? "Dana Perino defended the president's anti-terrorism policy, without directly addressing Crawford's assessment." They added, "Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman also had no direct comment on Crawford's comments".
So the answer is to emphasize the response rather than the finding of torture (making the actual finding instant old news), continue to refer to it as alleged torture although the judge made a finding, and pretend that refusal to answer is an actual response.
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