WAR COVERAGE: NAME VS. THING

Every time the television broadcasters promise more "news of Operation Iraqi Freedom", they engage in an act of Mouthpiecing, or parroting a party line. They are saying not just that Operation Iraqi Freedom is the name given by the Bush Administration to a set of activities, but that the activities really are (by motivation and effect) a compound freedom-giving operation. The insinuation is particularly strong in oral discourse, because the capital letters O, I, and F aren't audible. To avoid the arbitrary, prejudicial mouthing of one side's propaganda, they could allude to "what the Administration calls Operation Iraqi Freedom."

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