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"The So-Called 'War on Terror'"

NPR News refers to the War on Terror as the "so-called War on Terror." Do you think that might represent just a bit of hidden news editorializing? Are they now "the So-Called National Public Radio"?

Meanwhile, the New Amsterdam Times (or the "So-called New York Times," if you prefer) persits in describing Al Qaida in Iraq ad "Al Qaida in Mesopotamia." As long as they were going to try to spin the reality of Al Qaida as some kind of antiquity, why don't they go all the way back and call it "Al Qaida of the Ur of the Chaledeans''?

A whole new volume on Orwellian newsspeak needs writing about modern Western media.

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