Friday, January 19, 2007

Media Bias In A Name

Eat The Press | Michelle Pilecki: More Media Adopt Repubspeak | The Huffington Post

Hertzberg says that Sen. Joe McCarthy "made it [the 'Democrat' party] a regular part of his arsenal of insults," but the usage was pushed in the 1990s by Newt Gingrich and Frank Luntz, whom he quotes:
"Those two letters actually do matter," Luntz said the other day. He added that he recently finished writing a book--it's entitled Words That Work--and has been diligently going through the galley proofs taking out the hundreds of "ic"s that his copy editor, one of those partisan Dems, had stuck in.

President George W. Bush, unlike his GOP predecessors GHW Bush and Ronald Reagan, uses the party slur exclusively. And while some MSM journos follow suit, a few such as Washington Post blogger Dan Froomkin, object, pointing out that "Bush's alleged commitment to bipartisanship would probably be easier to swallow if he referred to the opposition party by its proper name."

2 comments:

the rube said...

i guess one man's noun is another man's adjective.

much like one man's invasion is another man's gift of liberty.

Bob Harrison said...

Yep. Right on the mark as usual.