PROOF! E-mail sent to NPR Can Help Change Language used!

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Today on NPR's "Morning Edition" story reveals E-mails about NOT using WH words (SS "Reform") did change the language NPR uses now. Now to get rid of "Over-haul." The story includes an excerpt from RW "Spawn of the Devil" Frank Luntz.:evilgrin:

I suggest "Trash," as in, "*'s plan to 'Trash' Social Security..."

Please post the words YOU would use, then e-mail NPR with your suggestions at:

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Listen here:
<http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4515900>

News Outlets Choosing their Words Carefully

by Brooke Gladstone
Morning Edition, February 28, 2005 ·

Some news organizations are giving extra thought to how they use words and phrases like reform, moral values, and war on terror. Brooke Gladstone of NPR's "On the Media" explores how some media outlets decide what to say, and how to say it.

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1. "On the Media" is NPR's last tenuous hold on the "liberal"

tag they used to be known for. It's the only show on the damn network that could be identified as leaning left anymore....the rest is mostly corporate RW shilling, with a gnat-wing-thing overlay of ideological pretense to magnanimity.

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2. What. The. Fuck. Is that Beetle Bailey cartoon real?

Please tell me that's been doctored and the talk-balloons have been altered with those words for some unkown reason. That is the most bizarre "skit" I've ever seen!

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3. The Situationists used to call it "detournment."

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4. Can you explain what "detournment" is? My dictionary only has

'Detour' and an online check has no entry for detournment.

Is that french for "what the fuck kind of non-sequitur was that?"

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5. "Detournment" is the term the Situationists International (google 'em)

used for taking a piece of the "spectacle" and appropriating it for their own ends (all so-called "culture jamming" proceeds from this idea).

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8. OK, you're still using terms that I have no idea what they mean but I

found this at your link;

Détournement is less effective the more it approaches a rational reply. That BB cartoon certainly runs far away from a rational response that it's detournement is through the roof!

It's DetournEment (french), not detournment(not an actual english word at least where I have been able to find)

"spectacle" - I assume is a reference to our world and it's inherent silliness in general

"Situationists" and "Situationists International" - I've never heard the terms until your post, I'll google later.


For the OP: Sorry to hijack your thread, but I didn't make it and it may be poisoned!!

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7. Here's a link:

http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/detourn.htm

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6. NPR used "Old Europe and New Europe" as recently as last week during

Bush's trip there.

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9. I think they were referring to the usage of the term

NPR tends not to use the terms "Quote" "Un-Quote":hippie:

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10. No, they were using the term to describe what Bush was doing in Europe.

"He was visiting Old Europe." It was said with very little irony, if any. It was used in a summary of upcoming stories.