Media Miseducation

On a relatively new, provocative Web site, award-winning journalist/author Burton H. Wolfe rips the mass communications media for misleading humanity by misuse of terminology that is critically important for an understanding of complex events and the motives behind them. It may seem astounding to be told that there is no such person on earth as a "Palestinian" when that term is being used thousands if not millions of times a day in newspapers and on television broadcasts. It may seem puzzling to be told that a "suicide bomber" is not a suicide bomber. But once you click on Wolfe's Web site, http://www.burtonhwolfe.com, you will find clear and irrefutable explanations. It is Wolfe's hope that once you see what is wrong with the terminology that the media is using or rather misusing, you will send letters or e-mails to writers, editors, and broadcasters asking them to correct their terminology.