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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Torture, By Any (Every) Other Name

This is interesting, as it comes at same time of debate over Zero Dark Thirty (see below) and released this week of critical official report on U.S. use of torture.   Go here for results of study (and graphs and charts) of how media have reported on torture in recent years, including uses of "euphemisms."  It compares different types of news outlets, plus examples within them.  For example, Fox and CNN use other words for torture 3 out of 4 times but at MSNNC it's a 50/50 situation.

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