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Feb. 15th, 2006 04:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kingandyYou know what annoys me? The shortening of "Terrorism" to "Terror".
There's some discussion in the media regarding "Anti-terror" laws, such as this ban on glorifying terror. I don't see that anyone would actually glorify terror. Terrorism, maybe, but not terror. "Crikey, I love to be terrified! Hooray for terror, fear is awesome! Let's all be scared, like the cool kids are!"
On a not entirely unrelated note, during last night's long drive to Bolton I rolled my eyes at the Radio One coverage of the public smoking ban to be brought in next summer. Every news bulletin they had soundbites from two people: a member of the pro-smoking group Forest, who was against the ban, and a spokesperson from Cancer Research UK, who supported it.
Let me reiterate that. It was considered newsworthy that a pro-smoking group was pro-smoking, and an anti-smoking group was anti-smoking.
People just don't think.
There's some discussion in the media regarding "Anti-terror" laws, such as this ban on glorifying terror. I don't see that anyone would actually glorify terror. Terrorism, maybe, but not terror. "Crikey, I love to be terrified! Hooray for terror, fear is awesome! Let's all be scared, like the cool kids are!"
On a not entirely unrelated note, during last night's long drive to Bolton I rolled my eyes at the Radio One coverage of the public smoking ban to be brought in next summer. Every news bulletin they had soundbites from two people: a member of the pro-smoking group Forest, who was against the ban, and a spokesperson from Cancer Research UK, who supported it.
Let me reiterate that. It was considered newsworthy that a pro-smoking group was pro-smoking, and an anti-smoking group was anti-smoking.
People just don't think.
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Date: 2006-02-15 05:39 pm (UTC)