29 Aug
2004
29 Aug
'04
11:21 a.m.
On Sun, 29 Aug 2004, Tyler Durden wrote:
More than that, it may indicate that the business managers at major media are starting to realize that they can't continue pissing off huge chunks of the public and still sell papers, etc.... Note the move from "Iraqi terrorists" to "Iraqi insurgents". Wait for them to start calling al-Sadr "hardline" rather than "Radical".
It's also possible they want to prevent the continuing inflation of "power words". Once certain words become too common, they lose their magic and won't be bringing eyeballs to the TVs and making papers sell anymore.