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Thursday, May 19, 2005
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Another angle on "mediamen" killings
In every single report I've heard for the past few days about the threat to lives of journalists, I always hear reporters and even anchors use the terms "mediamen" or "mediaman". I initially just laughed at it, but with the repeated (mis)use of politically incorrect terms on the air (even on primetime TV news), I got irritated. Don't these people have media protocol on the use of inclusive language? It's funny-bordering-on-irritation when a reporter refers to a female colleague as a "mediaman". Some would say c'mon, big deal. Well, yes it is big deal especially when people's source of information flaunts gender insensitivity. Come to think of it, they allow the showing of faces of prostituted persons during raids, so I am not at all surprised.
posted by Allan at 9:10 AM (GMT+8)
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