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Category Archives: National Public Radio

Tomato, torture, potato, enhanced interrogation techniques – let’s call the whole interview off

July 2, 2009 – 2:52 pm

Yesterday I posted about language choices in the media and NPR Ombudsman Alison Shepard’s defence of not calling waterboarding by the ‘t’ word. It was also noted that Glenn Greenwald had been unsuccessful in securing an interview with Shepard. Today, Simon Owens of Bloggasm has let me know that he interviewed Greenwald about why he [...]

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You say tomato, I say torture

July 1, 2009 – 11:33 am

Here’s something a little different from our usual topics, but which relates to the issue of intellectually honest reporting. The On the Media program on (US) National Public Radio had an interesting segment last week about the linguistic choices journalists must make. The segment explored the NPR Ombudsman’s justification of using the term “enhanced [or [...]

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