reporters and rhetoric

Geoffrey Cowan writes about how the government misnames their practices to make them sound better than they really are. He points out that things like "villages being bombarded fromte air, the inhabitants friven out into the countryside, the cattle machinegunned, the huts set on fire with incendiary bullet" would be called pacification which sounds pretty calm and unharming. It sounds like pacifier, something that you give to a baby when it cries. He attacks word usage such as democracy, where there is no real and set definition. He also focuses on the use of the words "Civil War" to describe the war in iraq. Politicians did not want to use this word because the people would see it as a war that we should not be in. He also talks about the words that politicians use to get a feeling into the people who are listening and watching. His essay was very well written but not very clearly understood. I feel like he attacked other people so much that it got ridiculous at how much information he actually used. But then again, maybe that was his intention. Maybe he wanted the reader to see exactly how much misleading and wrong words that politician use. I think he hates the misleading language and the misnomers of things that he had to do this to make himself feel better. Just my opinion.