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I loved reading the syndicated Sidney J. Harris column in my hometown paper –The (Appleton, Wis.) Post-Crescent – when I was growing up in the ’70s. It got me thinking about language, its complexity and how perspectives vary. Harris’s examples ran like this: I’m careful, you’re meticulous and he’s fussy; I’m concerned, you’re angry and she’s going postal. It’s part of the evolving dynamic behind labels, which both news consumers and news practitioners construct: Muslim/Islamist, immigrant/ex-pat, feminist/feminazi,
Colleen Cotter, ‘How To Be A Language Savvy News Consumer’
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