Wash. Times cuts right-wing rhetoric from style guide.
By on Feb 26th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Wash. Times cuts right-wing rhetoric from style guide.
When the Washington Times named former Washington Post reporter John Solomon as the paper’s new executive editor, ThinkProgress criticized the decision due to Solomon’s controversial record. But, to Solomon’s credit, he is updating the Washington Times’ style guide by removing some of the “hard-line conservative rhetoric” that was common in the paper:
1) Clinton will be the headline word for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
2) Gay is approved for copy and preferred over homosexual, except in clinical references or references to sexual activity.
3) The quotation marks will come off gay marriage (preferred over homosexual marriage).
4) Moderate is approved, but centrist is still allowed.
5) We will use illegal immigrants, not illegal aliens.
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The only possible use for the Washington Times is to wipe one’s ass, but extreme caution is advised, it may give you a rash.
February 26th, 2008 at 12:54 pmThe Times is another moonie paper, which follows Rev Moon’s doctrine of “heavenly deception”.
February 26th, 2008 at 12:57 pmSo they’re reserving the word ‘aliens’ for moonie UFO visitors?
February 26th, 2008 at 1:02 pmPerhaps the Moonie Times sees approaching the end of the NeoCon era, and hopes to be taken seriously by people other than the discredited losers in town?
February 26th, 2008 at 1:02 pmThose steps seem stragely rational and a step in the right direction. Quick, someone check the thermometer in hell.
February 26th, 2008 at 1:10 pmNow they only need cut about 7/8ths of the actual printed material in the paper and it would be near perfection…
February 26th, 2008 at 1:10 pmwhat’s with the righties gettin’ all “politically correct” on us?
Republicans worried about being labeled bigots
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/02/25/republicans-worried-about-being-labeled-bigots/
February 26th, 2008 at 1:12 pm“Republicans worried about being labeled bigots”
*laughs*
That’s awesome. It’s OK to be a bigot, just not to be labeled as one.
It’s all in the message, right?
February 26th, 2008 at 1:17 pmMore neutral ‘newspeak’?
February 26th, 2008 at 1:18 pmPerhaps the Moonie Times sees approaching the end of the NeoCon era, and hopes to be taken seriously by people other than the discredited losers in town?
Comment by ralph the wonder llama — February 26, 2008 @ 1:02 pm
Something like that. My theory – they want to keep their circulation numbers up after the coming neocon exodus of November 2008.
February 26th, 2008 at 1:25 pmit’s a start.
February 26th, 2008 at 1:28 pmgood point, joe…
we should always give credit where it’s due…
February 26th, 2008 at 1:32 pmwe don’t do that enough… no one does, really… and we all need it…
Despite this apparent moderation, we in the DC metro area still won’t use the Times for anything other than (a) wrapping fish, (b) lining the bottoms of birdcages, and (c) starting a fire in the fireplace.
February 26th, 2008 at 1:49 pmI’m glad there are no style guides ruling the blogosphere, though there are still speech codes infringing on the First Amendment in colleges around the country. Political correctness is BS, whether leftist or rightist.
And language above all things should be free and democratic.
http://newsprism.wordpress.com
February 26th, 2008 at 1:49 pmI don’t understand, trying to make it appear less insane is somehow good? This means people on the edge of reason are going to be fooled into thinking it is less than a religion of money that owns the rag.
this is compromised thinking? You would help legitimize a company that is based on crime? I can’t believe my eyes here, this is not the normal Think Progress would say something good about such a fraud?
I hope this story gets re valued and some explanation of it is forthcoming?
February 26th, 2008 at 2:05 pmThis is really funny. I hope someone more amusing than I really takes this to a higher level. I can see a lot of funny options especially with the creative (yet moderate) use of quotation marks or better yet gay illegal immigrant Clinton quotation marks.
February 26th, 2008 at 2:09 pmWow. That’s mighty …white of them.
February 26th, 2008 at 2:22 pmNow we need to work on the New York Times. If you cite one side, you need to cite the other to be intelectually honest.
Comment by Southern Man — February 26, 2008 @ 3:05 pm
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So why are there all those weird ules about which countries we will talk openly with and which we won’t? Is it that as a nation we are “intellectually dishonest”?
February 26th, 2008 at 4:19 pmBut the WT will instead pay pseudo experts to slime Democrats.
February 26th, 2008 at 4:53 pm, then we can begin open talks. Until then, we are wasting our time.
Comment by Southern Man — February 26, 2008 @ 5:08 pm
I can’t decide which is more foolish, your stupidity or naivete. Your understanding of diplomacy and foreign policy is nonexistent.
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In case you weren’t clear on what a classy lot this wingnut bunch is, Malkin’s site has published (a) the email address of the person who sent round this email; and (b) the all Times employees email address.
I won’t post the link to the relevant page here, but the homepage is http://michellemalkin.com and it’s pretty clear after that where this wingnut terrorism can be found.
I’d be interested to see if someone can follow-up on the unhinged email that I imagine is flooding into the Times. Whilst I have little time for the Moonie outfit, Malkin is a total jerk for publishing what she did, though it’s obviously not the first time she has done this.
February 27th, 2008 at 5:13 am