LANGUAGE, THE FIRST CASUALTY OF WAR
COMMENTARY ARCHIVES, 14 Sep 2008
Missing from most of the commentary on the brief war in Georgia was anymention of the contorted use language in Western news coverage andopinion writing. While there have been some reasonable observers discussing the conflict in Georgia, most mainstream reporting and commentary have persistently described the conflict as the “rape" of Georgia in which its capital has been put under “siege” as part of a Russian expansionist effort (which is just part of a supposed pattern of Russian “expansionism”).
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