February 19, 2010

New York Post Style Guide for White American Political Violence

The New York Post (2/19/10) has an interesting front page on the anti-government protester flying his plane into an office building. After the bad pun (“KAMIKAZE ATTAX!”), the subhead reads:

Fed-Up Madman Crashes Plane Into IRS Building

“Madman”–because unlike, say, Nidal Malik Hasan, Joseph Stack is not a “terrorist” whose actions might discredit a wider political movement. And “Fed-Up” because…maybe he has a point?

Jim Naureckas

Jim Naureckas is the editor of FAIR.org, and has edited FAIR's print publication Extra! since 1990. He is the co-author of The Way Things Aren’t: Rush Limbaugh’s Reign of Error, and co-editor of The FAIR Reader. He was an investigative reporter for In These Times and managing editor of the Washington Report on the Hemisphere. Born in Libertyville, Illinois, he has a poli sci degree from Stanford. Since 1997 he has been married to Janine Jackson, FAIR’s program director.

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Doug Latimer
February 19, 2010 at 6:32 pm
Glenn Greenwald’s excellent piece on this:
Terrorism: The Most Meaningless and Manipulated Word
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/19-1

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