{"id":2978,"date":"2002-10-26T09:09:12","date_gmt":"2002-10-26T09:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.armedliberal.com\/?p=377"},"modified":"2002-10-26T09:09:12","modified_gmt":"2002-10-26T09:09:12","slug":"nomenclature-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2978","title":{"rendered":"NOMENCLATURE MATTERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meryl Yourish <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourish.com\/archives\/2002\/oct20-26_2002.html#2002102601\" target=\"browser\">busts<\/a> the AP and other media for calling the Chechens &#8220;guerillas&#8221; rather than &#8220;terrorists&#8221;. She&#8217;s absolutely right.<br \/>\nGuerillas attack military targets.<br \/>\nTerrorists attack unprepared civilians.<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s be clear about this.<br \/>\nAnd it&#8217;s infuriating to see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/wire\/2002\/10\/26\/moscow_deaths\/index.html\" target=\"browser\">Salon<\/a> headline as <i>&#8217;67 hostages die as Moscow siege ends&#8217;<\/i>. Over 700 hostages were <u>saved<\/u> from a group of murderous thugs through the professional work of the Russian rescue team.<br \/>\nGood for them.<br \/>\nBetween Chief Moose and the Russians, the good guys have had a good week.<br \/>\nNow if we could only make that unnecessary&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meryl Yourish busts the AP and other media for calling the Chechens &#8220;guerillas&#8221; rather than &#8220;terrorists&#8221;. She&#8217;s absolutely right. Guerillas attack military targets. Terrorists attack unprepared civilians. Let&#8217;s be clear about this. And it&#8217;s infuriating to see the Salon headline as &#8217;67 hostages die as Moscow siege ends&#8217;. Over 700 hostages were saved from a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2978"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}