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Thread ID: 12144 | Posts: 2 | Started: 2004-02-04
2004-02-04 14:37 | User Profile
How to be a politically correct journalist.
[URL=http://newswatch.sfsu.edu/guide/]http://newswatch.sfsu.edu/guide/[/URL]
Some examples:
Chinese fire drill
Avoid. Racist phrase referring to chaotic situations. Also refers to a game that often takes place at a stoplight in which people in a vehicle get out, run around the vehicle and re-enter in a haphazard way before the traffic light turns green.
niggardly
The word, of Scandinavian origin, means miserly or stingy. This homophone does not need to be banned in print; however, broadcasters should avoid the word on air because it is too close in sound to the racial epithet.
New World
Avoid. A Eurocentric term that implies no one was in the Americas before Europeans arrived.
Third World
Avoid. Eurocentric term. When referring to locations outside industrialized regions, preferred term is "developing world" or "developing nation."
barrio
Avoid. Conjures up stereotypes about low-income Latino neighborhoods. Use the name of the neighborhood. See also "ghetto."
2004-02-04 14:59 | User Profile
I was in the USA in 1999 when that civil servant in Washington DC (?) resigned immediately after saying "niggardly".