111 days: Not over yet

Surfing around when I came across this on non other than the esteemed Mista Brown's site:

Here's the direct link to a damn good article by Daniel Pipes.

And an excerpt:

The press, however, generally shies away from the word terrorist, preferring euphemisms. Take the assault that led to the deaths of some 400 people, many of them children, in Beslan, Russia, on September 3. Journalists have delved deep into their thesauruses, finding at least twenty euphemisms for terrorists:
Assailants - National Public Radio.
Attackers – the Economist.
Bombers – the Guardian.
Captors – the Associated Press.
Commandos – Agence France-Presse

Criminals - the Times (London).
Extremists – United Press International.
Fighters – the Washington Post.
Group – the Australian.
Guerrillas: in a New York Post editorial.
Gunmen – Reuters.
Hostage-takers - the Los Angeles Times.
Insurgents – in a New York Times headline.
Kidnappers – the Observer (London).
Militants – the Chicago Tribune.
Perpetrators – the New York Times.
Radicals – the BBC.
Rebels – in a Sydney Morning Herald headline.
Separatists – the Christian Science Monitor.
And my favorite:
Activists – the Pakistan Times

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More good stuff at Thinkcentre.org

Media Watch:

New rules curb speech at Singapore speakers' spot

(Taipei Times)

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And I'm sorry to repeat links but Mr Brown's 100th National Education article rocked my socks:

Excerpts (but pls read the whole thing):

4. That not long after Singapore's Great Western Blackout, in a bid to keep up with us, Kuala Lumpur had a power blackout too, on the 19th of April. Anything Singapore can do, like have a power failure, Malaysia also boleh.

While Singapore's blackout happened in the dead of night in an ulu part of the island, KL had theirs during the morning rush hour, right smack in the city centre.

Singapore will have to work harder if they want to beat KL at having disasters. Damn, they're good.

8. That the Bukit Panjang LRT broke down yet again, for four hours, two weeks after re-opening from a 5-month, $350,000 bug-fixing exercise.

If the LRT were a horse, they'd shoot it.

The SMRT was going welcome its 60 millionth passenger on the LRT this month with a $500 set of five limited edition ez-link cards, to show its appreciation to commuters for using the line through the "challenging times in the earlier years".

I guess now it will be given to show its appreciation to commuters for using the line through the "challenging times in the earlier years and also er, now".

If it breaks down anymore, it will need a psychiatrist.

9. That soon, flats in Bukit Panjang will be advertised with "Nowhere near the LRT" as a selling point.

Chiou ka peng man, I tell you.