British news syndicate Reuters is at war with a major Canadian newspaper chain over its refusal to go along with the Reuters policy of referring to terrorists by euphemisms such as "militant." Reuters has asked that its credit be removed when the word "terrorist" is inserted into its stories.

Fair enough, but as one of Smash's commenters points out, how can Reuters report the news if they don't use that word? What is next?—replacing the judgmental word "murder" with something else such as "assisted untimely death"?

Kathy Kinsley recently remarked that the word "militant" now means "terrorist," and we'll simply have to come up with a new word for "militant." We may well be at that point, and it's a shame.

Story is at Smash, via Dean Esmay and Joe Gandelman.

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