End Of An Era: DC's Moonie 'Times' Gets A Little Less Nutty

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DC's Moonie 'Times' Gets A Little Less Nutty

The Moonie-owned right-wing-allied Washington Times has changed its editor, and now its styleguide. Some of the seriously loaded code languge is no longer the Times standard! So long "homosexual 'marriage'"! Farewell "illegal aliens"! We thought we'd be in the cold ground before the Washington Times recognized the term "moderate." Alas, times change. White supremacist-sympathetic editors-in-chief get ousted. Times newsroom email, via CQ, after the jump.

Subject: Style changes
All:

Here are some recent updates to TWT style.

1) Clinton will be the headline word for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.

2) Gay is approved for copy and preferred over homosexual, except in clinical references or references to sexual activity.

3) The quotation marks will come off gay marriage (preferred over homosexual marriage).

4) Moderate is approved, but centrist is still allowed.

5) We will use illegal immigrants, not illegal aliens.

Thanks.

Patrick

1:17 PM on Tue Feb 26 2008
By Pareene
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mitchel_stevens at 01:30 PM on 02/26/08
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"6) You may still say 'fags' when using the bathroom for early-morning drinking."
Nic Fit at 01:32 PM on 02/26/08
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Wow, reminds me of the old NY Daily News headline for the Stonewall riot: "Homo Nest Raided, Queen Bees Are Stinging Mad."
NinaHagen at 01:34 PM on 02/26/08
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Connectedness Index: 221

When is the mass wedding?
Botswana Meat... at 01:42 PM on 02/26/08
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Connectedness Index: 655

The unification church is now a "sect," not a cult.
fwah-mawvaze at 01:55 PM on 02/26/08
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Why is the bloggy acronym for Washington Times not "TWaT"?
econdave at 02:15 PM on 02/26/08
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Let's just say that Jane Fonda knows the word that the WashTimes previous used in headlines to refer to Senator Clinton.
IronSheik at 07:28 PM on 02/26/08
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I call bullshit on this. They're not changing their style, just replacing code words. Similar to the transition mainstream newspapers made from "negro" to "inner-city youth" in the 1970s.
thefrontpage at 02:26 PM on 02/28/08
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6) It is still permissible to make fun of liberals, and you may still call them "pinkos."

7) Whenever referring to officials with the unification church, use honorifics such as "Diety," "Royal Supreme Father," "The Rev. Money Man," and "Sugar Daddy."

8) Tree-huggers and earth-hippies are preferred terms, rather than "environmentalists."