http://www.matthewbennett.es/1091/eta-kills-another-spanish-police-inspector-in-basque-country/ Obama has authorised the CIA to help the LIbyan rebels and Moussa Kassa, Libya's Lockerbie mastermind, has defected to London… Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:54:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.matthewbennett.es/1091/eta-kills-another-spanish-police-inspector-in-basque-country/#comment-4493 Steven Capsuto Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:48:35 +0000 http://www.matthewbennett.es/?p=1091#comment-4493 <p>I caught his widow's full speech in the telecast of the rally and she said, I think, everything that needed to be said. What a strong, eloquent person! I was in tears.<br><br>As for the usual griping by Spaniards over the wording of U.S. media coverage of ETA attacks: the Spanish news media has reached the point where it treats "labandaterroristaETA" ("theterroristgroupETA") as if it were a single, indivisible word. I can't remember the last time I heard a Spanish news reporter just say "ETA." This deliberate repetition has had the desired effect: Spaniards are so used to this that if someone in the foreign media mentions ETA without specifying "the terrorist group, ETA," it sounds to them as if something is missing. To my foreign ears, it feels almost propagandistic.<br><br>If it is possible to say "al-Qaeda" without always saying "the terrorist group, al-Qaeda," surely it's possible to mention ETA without always adding the word "terrorist." In any case, the description used by the New York Times seemed fine. Part of the problem, I think, is that Spanish speakers assume the English word "militant" means the same as the Spanish "militante," which it does not.</p> I caught his widow's full speech in the telecast of the rally and she said, I think, everything that needed to be said. What a strong, eloquent person! I was in tears.

As for the usual griping by Spaniards over the wording of U.S. media coverage of ETA attacks: the Spanish news media has reached the point where it treats “labandaterroristaETA” (“theterroristgroupETA”) as if it were a single, indivisible word. I can't remember the last time I heard a Spanish news reporter just say “ETA.” This deliberate repetition has had the desired effect: Spaniards are so used to this that if someone in the foreign media mentions ETA without specifying “the terrorist group, ETA,” it sounds to them as if something is missing. To my foreign ears, it feels almost propagandistic.

If it is possible to say “al-Qaeda” without always saying “the terrorist group, al-Qaeda,” surely it's possible to mention ETA without always adding the word “terrorist.” In any case, the description used by the New York Times seemed fine. Part of the problem, I think, is that Spanish speakers assume the English word “militant” means the same as the Spanish “militante,” which it does not.

]]> http://www.matthewbennett.es/1091/eta-kills-another-spanish-police-inspector-in-basque-country/#comment-628 Steven Capsuto Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:48:35 +0000 http://www.matthewbennett.es/?p=1091#comment-628 <p>I caught his widow's full speech in the telecast of the rally and she said, I think, everything that needed to be said. What a strong, eloquent person! I was in tears.<br><br>As for the usual griping by Spaniards over the wording of U.S. media coverage of ETA attacks: the Spanish news media has reached the point where it treats "labandaterroristaETA" ("theterroristgroupETA") as if it were a single, indivisible word. I can't remember the last time I heard a Spanish news reporter just say "ETA." This deliberate repetition has had the desired effect: Spaniards are so used to this that if someone in the foreign media mentions ETA without specifying "the terrorist group, ETA," it sounds to them as if something is missing. To my foreign ears, it feels almost propagandistic.<br><br>If it is possible to say "al-Qaeda" without always saying "the terrorist group, al-Qaeda," surely it's possible to mention ETA without always adding the word "terrorist." In any case, the description used by the New York Times seemed fine. Part of the problem, I think, is that Spanish speakers assume the English word "militant" means the same as the Spanish "militante," which it does not.</p> I caught his widow's full speech in the telecast of the rally and she said, I think, everything that needed to be said. What a strong, eloquent person! I was in tears.

As for the usual griping by Spaniards over the wording of U.S. media coverage of ETA attacks: the Spanish news media has reached the point where it treats “labandaterroristaETA” (“theterroristgroupETA”) as if it were a single, indivisible word. I can't remember the last time I heard a Spanish news reporter just say “ETA.” This deliberate repetition has had the desired effect: Spaniards are so used to this that if someone in the foreign media mentions ETA without specifying “the terrorist group, ETA,” it sounds to them as if something is missing. To my foreign ears, it feels almost propagandistic.

If it is possible to say “al-Qaeda” without always saying “the terrorist group, al-Qaeda,” surely it's possible to mention ETA without always adding the word “terrorist.” In any case, the description used by the New York Times seemed fine. Part of the problem, I think, is that Spanish speakers assume the English word “militant” means the same as the Spanish “militante,” which it does not.

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