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Calling a spade an implement: The media’s struggles with “terrorism”

Calling a spade an implement: The media’s struggles with “terrorism”

Few words cause journalists such discombobulation as this one does

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Dan Perry
Oct 18, 2023
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Few words cause journalists such discombobulation as “terrorism” does, which the Hamas massacre of about 1,400 Israelis on Oct. 7 has laid bare once again. Calling a spade a spade, it seems, is too big a headache in such cases.

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