Why the quotes on this headline?
US 'acts to end prisoner abuse'
Quotes convey cynicism, and it's interesting that the BBC used them here.
With this administration - who knows, maybe with all administrations and this is just the first time I'm paying attention - it's getting harder and harder to control the SPIN. It is getting harder to accurately report from a press conference because it's somewhere between possible and likely that the words spoken are pure rhetoric... even lies.
Language is getting very confusing. Orwell is saying I told ya so. Jenny is sighing.
It's hard to communicate these days. Hard to write, to be involved with news, with dialogue in general.
If you want to learn more about this - and you do, trust me - read this summary of Politics and the English Language... or this section of the George Orwell entry.
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