Word watch
Why does the media refer to civilians taken from their homeland and locked up at Guantanamo without ever being charged with a crime as “inmates” and military personnel seized and charged with violating Iranian territorial waters as “hostages”? We really have entered an era of newspeak.
WALTER RICHMOND
La Crescenta
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