In keeping with the tone of the\u200d rest of the corporate media,\u200b features writer for New York Magazine\u2019s Intelligencer\u2063 Eric Levitz tripped\u200c over himself\u2062 over the \u200dweekend to label<\/a> the \u2064 reports<\/a> that<\/a> Israeli babies<\/a> were<\/a> decapitated<\/a> an\u200b \u201coverstatement.\u201d <\/p>\n

Levitz openly acknowledged in an X\u200c thread that \u201cbabies were\u2062 found headless\u201d but stopped\u200c shy of \u2064accusing\u200b Hamas of beheading them. In fact, he said babies being found without their heads \u201cdoes not \u200dprove\u201d they were\u200d beheaded.<\/p>\n

\u201c(The verb behead\u2064 has multiple definitions, and is sometimes used to mean\u2064 decapitate; the \u200dreport\u200b indicates\u2063 that Hamas\u200c did \u200dbehead babies in that sense,\u201d Levitz added in a parenthetical. \u201cBut the term\u2062 can also connote\u200b a form of execution using a knife, and\u200c we\u2064 do not have\u200d confirmation\u200c of\u200c beheading \u2062in this sense).\u201d \u200d <\/p>\n

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After facing an avalanche of criticism, Levitz later complained that his post was \u201cmisconstrued\u201d<\/a> as \u201can apology \u200cfor \u2062Hamas.\u201d He was \u201cinsist[ing] on precision,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

On the contrary, his \u200cexplanation just exposed him\u2064 as yet another cog in the\u2062 corrupt media machine<\/a> that has spent the \u200bpast\u2063 few weeks trying to draw a \u2062distinction between headless<\/em> \u2062 babies and beheaded<\/em> babies and burned-alive<\/em> \u2064 babies and those barbarically murdered in \u200ccountless\u2062 other unspeakable ways<\/em>.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s a distinction without a difference \u2014 and \u200cit\u2019s made all the more curious by the \u2064corporate media\u2019s habitual language manipulation and equivocating. Why\u200c is\u2064 it that the same media footsoldiers who split hairs\u2063 parsing out whether\u200d a headless \u200cchild can accurately be \u2064called\u200c \u201cbeheaded\u201d \u2062have no qualms about calling a singular trans-identified person \u201cthey<\/a>\u201d or calling an elective abortion an\u200b exercise in \u201creproductive rights\u201d as if the preborn child\u2019s rights were considered in the matter?<\/p>\n

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This is what happens when today\u2019s self-appointed arbiters of information, and the \u2063so-called journalists \u2064they employ, \u200d \u201csurrender\u201d<\/a> words\u200b for the sake of \u2064a narrative. \u200bBecause whether Levitz knows it or \u200bnot, and \u200ccontrary to his claim, the left\u2019s fight over language isn\u2019t about \u201cprecision.\u201d It\u2019s about politics. For years, the corporate media have ditched\u2064 linguistic\u200b accuracy to promote\u200b their favorite causes. <\/p>\n
For \u2064instance, have you ever noticed\u200b the way the media throw \u2064around euphemisms like \u201cpro-choice\u201d for \u200dabortion supporters and \u201canti-abortion rights\u201d\u2064 for \u2064pro-lifers?\u200b A quick little web search turns\u2063 up countless\u200c big media\u2064 organizations\u2062 that use this nasty tactic: ABC<\/a>, The Atlantic<\/a>, Politico<\/a>, BBC<\/a>, \u2063 Forbe<\/a>s<\/a>, \u200d NPR<\/a>, NBC<\/a>, Axios<\/a>, PBS<\/a>, CBS<\/a>, CNN<\/a>, \u2064 The New York\u2063 Times<\/a>, Reuters<\/a>, \u2064 MSNBC<\/a>, The Washington Post<\/a>, The Hill<\/a>, Time Magazine<\/a>, and New York Magazine<\/a>, which employs\u2063 Levitz. Good luck \u200dfinding a corporate\u2062 outlet that doesn\u2019t use this \u2064corrupt\u200c framing.<\/p>\n
Notice\u2063 also\u200c how corporate media use terms like \u2064\u201cabortion clinic\u201d and\u200b \u201cabortion doctor\u201d for people\u200b and places\u2062 that perform abortions, as \u200copposed to the far more accurate\u2064 \u201cabortion facility\u201d and \u201cabortionist.\u201d After all, while clinics are places\u200b of help and healing, and \u2063doctors take \u200dthe \u200dHippocratic oath\u200d to\u2062 \u201cdo no harm,\u201d\u2063 abortion intentionally ends\u200b an innocent human life. Yet you won\u2019t see corporate media journalists producing social media threads analyzing<\/a> \u200dthe\u2063 accuracy of these terms.<\/p>\n
The same goes for \u2063the lexicon of\u2062 sexual \u2063politics. The media\u200d endlessly parrot phrases like \u201cgender-affirming \u200ccare,\u201d \u201cgender-reassignment surgery,\u201d and \u201csex change\u201d \u2063ad\u2063 nauseum, yet never do they pause \u200bto consider that there\u2019s nothing \u201caffirming\u201d nor \u201ccaring\u201d about permanently altering the healthy \u200cbody of a confused or mentally ill person<\/a>. Nor can one \u201creassign\u201d something that was never \u201cassigned\u201d in the first place.\u00a0Nor \u200ccan a person change his or her \u200bsex. They likewise readily publish \u200dterms like \u200d\u201ccisgender,\u201d \u201cnonbinary,\u201d \u201ctrans man,\u201d or \u201ctrans woman,\u201d which are a plain insult to science.<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s not just so-called culture war\u200d issues, either. \u2063The media take the same tack with less nefarious things, such as \u200bcalling massive government spending \u2064an \u201cinvestment\u201d when we\u2019ll never\u2062 see a return on it. Or referring\u2062 to certain\u2063 groups as \u201ccommunities\u201d to pretend they\u2019re a monolith \u2014 like the \u201cLGBT community\u201d (as if\u200b men pretending to be \u200bwomen who make up the \u201cT\u201d \u200baren\u2019t destroying the \u201cL\u2019s\u201d) or the \u201cblack community\u201d (as \u2062if \u200ball \u2062people with dark skin vote and think and act alike). <\/p>\n
These words and phrases\u2064 the media \u200duse every \u200dday belie their stated concern for accuracy. The word choices have\u2064 nothing to do with reflecting reality and everything to do with reshaping<\/em> \u200d it in Democrats\u2019 \u200bimage.<\/p>\n
Thus, their collective \u2063chipping away at our primary means of\u2063 communication has resulted in poisons like political correctness<\/a> and braindead Marxism,\u200c which erodes society with ignorant and iconoclastic rallying \u2064cries like \u201csilence\u2064 is\u2062 violence.\u201d\u200b It\u2019s\u2064 the epitome of language capture, and its aims have\u200b become\u2064 painfully clear.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a reason \u200bthere is no major\u200c media outcry when dictionaries and \u200bnewsroom style guides manipulate<\/a> definitions<\/a> to best disarm \u200bthe left\u2019s political opponents. The left and its media minions are not afraid to\u200b sacrifice \u2062language and \u2063definitions on their partisan altar to get what they want. From libraries to living\u200d rooms, \u200dUkraine to universities, to elections and abortions and mostly\u2062 peaceful protests \u2014 \u200dthe media machine has memorized each script and recited it daily.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s probably because the left understands something very important about language \u2063that\u200c too many on \u2064the right\u200c don\u2019t: If you\u200b set the terms of the debate, you\u2019ve\u200b already won it.<\/p>\n
The next \u2063time the people who refer to \u2064men \u2063as \u201cshe\u201d want to chastise the public for calling the diabolical \u2064decapitation of babies \u201cbeheadings,\u201d reject it. As\u200b with \u200bmurders in the womb, so with\u2062 murders in Kfar Aza \u2014 the corrupt \u200cpress don\u2019t\u200c deal in accuracy, precision, or fact.\u00a0They\u2019re far more interested in political games,\u2062 like questioning the legitimacy\u2064 of confirmed baby\u200d beheadings \u200dfor \u200cweeks while publishing terrorist propaganda<\/a>\u2062 as truth<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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Of “beheading” may not be accurate in this particular context. However, his semantic argument fails \u2064to acknowledge the brutal reality of the situation and distracts from the\u2063 horrors inflicted upon\u2062 innocent children. This skewed reporting raises several important questions regarding the \u200blanguage\u2064 manipulation\u200d and distorted reporting of the corporate media: <\/h2>\n
Title: The \u2064Corporate Media’s Language Manipulation and Distorted \u200bReporting<\/p>\n
Introduction:<\/p>\n
In today’s era of media bias \u200cand sensationalism, it \u200dis crucial to\u2063 examine the\u2062 language choice and reporting style employed by corporate media\u200d outlets.\u200c One \u2063recent example\u200c of this\u2063 can be \u200dfound in New York Magazine’s \u200cIntelligencer, where features \u2064writer Eric Levitz attempted to downplay the beheading of Israeli babies by Hamas. Levitz’s language manipulation highlights a larger problem within the corporate media, which selectively chooses words and phrases\u2062 to fit their preferred narratives.<\/p>\n
Skewed Reporting:<\/p>\n
Levitz’s attempt to \u2064label the reports \u2062of decapitated Israeli babies as an “overstatement” is disconcerting. While he \u200backnowledged that babies were found headless, \u200dhe stopped short of accusing Hamas of beheading them. Levitz argued that the term \u2064”behead” has \u2063multiple definitions \u2064and that the reports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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