I shouldn't be surprised by this. This is the same network that insisted on putting the word 'dead' in quotes, even as Uday and Qusay's bodies were laying on slabs. I suppose this makes Hitler "the late German President", and Mussolini "the former Italian military leader". Clearly, if it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, the BBC must stop short of calling it anything but 'fowl'. Foul, indeed. From here on out, label me "the former BBC America viewer".
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In their defense, they're probably culling their language to take anything more than factual information out of stories, and to try to take opinion completely out of it. In J-school, we were cautioned to prune our newswriting of opinion and "loaded" words, and "dictator" is a word that can definitely be loaded. So they probably are doing this in an attempt to be a truly impartial news source. Might be a little overboard, but still.
Posted by: Dana | Sunday, 21 December 2003 at 20:47