Wednesday, June 20, 2007
The Media - Writers Guidelines
This is how it's done.
Next time you read a news article, or any article for that matter, think about the "words"...
Next time you read a news article, or any article for that matter, think about the "words"...
At LifeSite.net, Elizabeth O'Brien discusses them:
"The New York Daily News (NYDN), the sixth largest newspaper in the United States, uses a set of writer guidelines that promote abortion through their choice of language.
The NYDN writing requirements promote an anti-life mindset by instructing writers to avoid certain words when dealing with the abortion issue. The words 'pro-life' and 'pro-lifers', for example, must be replaced with 'abortion foes', 'abortion opponents' or in the case of constricted title space, 'abort foes'.
The pro-abortion bias is even more evident in the fact that NYDN writers may only include the positive terms 'pro-life' and 'pro-lifers' in direct quotations."
