Getting a little tired of the "so-called" crap (re: DSM)

[Bleacher Creature]

Why is it the "so called" Downing Street Memo? Objectively, that is what people are calling it.

[SteppingRazor]

1. It is?

Got any links? I haven't heard that.


But even if that's the case, they have a point in that it was not named "The Downing Street Memo" by the people who authored it. It was named that by the media. And so the use of "so-called" is, in this case, perfectly apropos. The connotation may be problematic, sicne it may connote that the document is false, but on its face there's nothing wrong with this usage.

[Bleacher Creature]

3. Try this one

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/14/AR2005061400563.html?nav=rss_politics

[SteppingRazor]

4. This sort of makes my second point.

They refer to it as "so-called" in the lead, but not after that. I think it's harmless. The same media were refering to White Water as "so-called" when Clinton was president. It's a reference to the authorship of the title, not the factual basis.

[Bleacher Creature]

5. I'll buy that -- I guess I'm getting to be a bit too jaded.

Thanks for the perspective.

[SteppingRazor]

6. Hell, I'm just glad they're discussing DSM at all n/t

[LightningFlash]

2. Downing Street Minutes.

Recorded minutes from actual meetings with officials. That's what it is, what it always will be.