Re: Why did Reuters call Kevin Mitnick a "Computer Terrorist"?

[Kevin McAleavey <kevinmca () nsclean com>]

At 08:36 AM 3/8/06, Richard M. Smith wrote:
> Unbelievable.....
>
> Famed "computer terrorist" teaches anti-hacking 
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060308/tc_nm/hacker_dc 
>
> By Rebecca Harrison (rebecca.harrison () reuters com) 1 hour, 10 minutes ago 


 Rupert Murdoch is a majority stockholder in Reuters, so there's your explanation - "fair and balanced." But even more 
interesting is Reuters' official policy on the "T-word" ...

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Taranto>James Taranto, a columnist for the 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_Journal>Wall Street Journal, wrote in 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Opinionjournal.com&action=edit>opinionjournal.com on 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_21>September 21, 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001>2001:<http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=95001205#reuter>[4]  
<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stephen_Jukes&action=edit>Stephen Jukes, global news editor for Reuters, the 
British wire service, has ordered his scribes not to use the word <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terror>terror to refer 
to the <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11%2C_2001_attacks>Sept. 11 atrocity, the 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Post>Washington Post's <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Kurtz>Howard Kurtz 
reports: <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14272-2001Sep23.html>[5]  
"We all know that one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter and that Reuters upholds the principle that we 
do not use the word terrorist," Jukes writes in an internal memo. "To be frank, it adds little to call the attack on 
the World Trade Center a terrorist attack." 
Jukes tells Kurtz: "We're trying to treat everyone on a level playing field." 

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Solomon>Norman Solomon, executive director for the 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Institute_for_Public_Accuracy&action=edit>Institute for Public Accuracy and 
a U.S. columnist, has been quoted as saying that there was nothing wrong with describing the September 11 attacks as 
terrorism if journalists were willing to use the word "with integrity across the board" - including when it applied to 
the foreign policy of their own country. Otherwise, he said, "the Reuters policy is the only principled journalistic 
alternative." <http://www.cbc.ca/news/indepth/words/terrorists.html>[6]

Hmmmm. 
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