The ugly face of terrorism?? 30, March 2010
Posted by thegulfblog.com in American ME Relations, Saudi Arabia.Tags: Al Sharq Al Awsat, Journalism, Terrorism, Terrorism cliches
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There’s an article in Sharq Al Awsat titled ‘The Ugly Face of Terrorism‘. What sort of a title is that? Such a title absurdly insinuates that there is a ‘pretty’ side to terrorism.
The article itself is simply the dullest of recapitulations of all the good ‘ol fashioned clichés about terrorism: it’s an unfair, evil, indiscriminate thing; it’s a scourge for us all; there’s nothing noble about a suicide attack and so on.
I realise that journalists have deadlines and editors demand column inches, especially in the aftermath of an attack that Moscow has just experienced, but this is the most banal, pointless, repetitious and redundant of articles and is a spectacularly bad indictment of ASAW that it was printed.
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