[Peace-discuss] Fw: [gangboxnews] NPR's Ombudsman: Why We Bar The Word "torture"

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NPR's Ombudsman: Why We Bar The Word "torture"
6-22-09 Salon.com by Glenn Greenwald 
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/06/22/npr/index.html

Anyone who believes that NPR is a "liberal" media outlet -- and anyone who wants to understand the decay of American journalism -- should read this column by NPR's Ombudsman, Alicia C. Shepard, as she explains and justifies why NPR bars the use of the word "torture" to describe what the Bush administration did.  Responding to what she calls "a slew of emails challenging NPR's policy of using the words 'harsh interrogation tactics' or 'enhanced interrogation techniques' to describe the treatment of terrorism suspects under the Bush administration," Shepard hauls out every trite and misleading bit of journalistic conventional wisdom to dismiss listeners' concerns and defend NPR's Orwellian practice (as I noted recently when writing about The New York Times' refusal to use the word "torture," NPR's compulsive use of Bush euphemisms has been a constant complaint of the excellent blog NPR Check). or http://nprcheck.blogspot.com/
Article completes at: http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/06/22/npr/index.html 

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