3/4/2022 blog

More on media and word choice

The media should stop describing what is planned and/or wanted in Ukraine as only a “no-fly zone”; it would be an air war, if the Ukrainians or their allies shot down invading Russian planes.

One The Washington Post military reporter described the “no-fly zone” over Iraq throughout the 1990s as an air war, and in my opinion he was correct, and that air war may have contributed to the 9/11/2001 terrorist attacks on the U.S.

The media should strive for clarity in its language. People are dying in the war in Ukraine. Re-read George Orwell’s essay “Politics and the English Language.”