ken hanly wrote: > I can understand why Fox news might use the term "dictator" when referring to > Chavez but I have heard the same term on CNN and on the CBC as well as used > by Reuters. How come? Chavez is an elected leader in an election monitored by > international observers. Even Obama on accasion has called Chavez a dictator. > Leaders of the oil sheikhdoms in the Middle East are never called dictators. > In another interesting semantic switch the coup government in Honduras is > now the de facto government according to the BBC and also the CBC. [and the > NYT]
in my experience, the media's foreign-affairs terminology pretty much follows that of the US State Department. It's as if there were a Party Line that was passed down by the Central Committee to the rank and file and obeyed. It surprises me that the CBC would toe that line (or take it hook, line, and sinker), but Canada has been a US "ally" for a long time. -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
