{"id":356515,"date":"2018-04-13T05:08:58","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T04:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/offensive-words-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2018-04-13T05:08:58","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T04:08:58","slug":"offensive-words-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/offensive-words-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Offensive\u2019 Words – LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Justin\u2019s note:<\/strong>\u00a0Stop saying offensive words.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what the Associated Press (AP) is telling writers.<\/p>\n

You see, the AP puts out a stylebook every year that includes universal guidelines for stylistic matters like punctuation, capitalization, and even word choice.<\/p>\n

In a recent version, the AP encouraged writers to not use words such as \u201cpro-life,\u201d \u201cmigrant,\u201d \u201crefugee,\u201d \u201cIslamist,\u201d and \u201cterrorist.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s completely ludicrous. Yet, sadly, it\u2019s a sign of the times.<\/p>\n

In the interview below, Doug Casey tears down the AP\u2019s blacklist and discusses why this is happening\u2026<\/p>\n\n

Justin:<\/strong>\u00a0Doug, what do you think of the AP censoring writers? Are you surprised at all?<\/p>\n

Doug:\u00a0<\/strong>There was once a time when journalists often had intelligence, integrity, and competence. Many did their jobs\u2014reporting the news accurately, openly disclosing their bias (if any). H.L. Mencken was a model of what a journalist should be. He wasn\u2019t just a reporter. He was a literary maven who had immense stores of knowledge and well-thought-out, fact-based opinions on nearly everything. In addition to a myriad of newspaper and magazine articles, he even wrote a definitive book on the English language and the correct way to use it.<\/p>\n

Today, reporters have none of these qualifications. Their only qualification appears to be a BA degree in English, or Journalism.<\/p>\n


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Maybe it\u2019s just that giants walked the earth in the days before Political Correctness. If Mencken was alive today, he would be shocked and appalled at the midgets who pass for reporters and editors today. He\u2019d be rolling in laughter and disgust at how much the profession has been degraded.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s like Orwell\u2019s worst…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Justin\u2019s note:\u00a0Stop saying offensive words. That\u2019s what the Associated Press (AP) is telling writers. You see, the AP puts out a stylebook every year that includes universal guidelines for stylistic matters like punctuation, capitalization, and even word choice. In a recent version, the AP encouraged writers to not use words such as \u201cpro-life,\u201d \u201cmigrant,\u201d \u201crefugee,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-356515","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}