Terry Jones and vocabulary

by Eric, 13 April 2008

Those of you have who have read Terry Jones’ insightful columns at The Guardian may have wondered where he obtains his up-to-the minute information and informed opinions from. Thanks to the BBC iPM programme, we now know. The intertubes. My favourite part of this interview is where he states he has rather given up listening to mainstream media, like the BBC, because it is so biased in its vocabulary. His example is the way it talks about insurgents in Iraq: “Now if this was the second world war you wouldn’t be talking about the insurgents, you’d be talking about the resistance fighters, but it’s insurgents now and that’s become the way you talk about the people who are objecting and fighting against the occupying forces, which is what the Americans and British are.”

Nice.

Listen to Terry Jones impart his wisdom.

Comments

  1. Mustafa

    No thankyou. I think I’d rather listen to my neighbour’s overfed cat ripping out its intestines.