Glenn Greenwald on the NY Times' use of the word torture when applied to Iran versus the US:
"Torture" appears to be a perfectly fine term for The New York Times to use to describe what the Iranians do, but one that is explicitly banned to describe what the U.S. did...
It's not particularly unusual for a government to permit itself to do something that it prohibits others from doing. The U.S. is hardly the only country that does that. But when that country's media collectively abets that government effort by molding its language to reflect that exceptionalism, it elevates the propaganda to a much different level.
(The point of this post is to expose media hypocricy, not to say that torture in Iran is fine since the US does the same thing. It is not.)
Grabbing on anything and everything to support Islamic terrorism huh?
Posted by: Abraham | July 19, 2009 at 01:05 AM