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Terminus: Warner Brothers Enters Reuters Territory
By Ed Driscoll · August 5, 2005 02:30 PM · Hollywood, Interrupted

Speaking of Libertas, check out Jason Apuzzo's post on Terminus, a Warner Brothers film currently in production:

It’s becoming obvious that Hollywood is going absolutely off the deep-end into left-wing saturnalia, almost like something out of Goethe’s ‘Walpurgis Nacht.’ Word comes today from Hollywood Reporter and Variety that Warner Brothers (also doing the pro-terror V For Vendetta ) will be distributing a new film called Terminus, which is described by Hollywood Reporter as following:
” … a burned-out and disillusioned war correspondent covering an insurgency who finds he can no longer stay objective. “It deals head on with what some call insurgency, what some call guerilla warfare and what some call freedom fighting,” [producer Basil] Iwanyk said.
Whether he knows it or not, Iwanyk is paraphrasing the words of Stephen Jukes, global news editor for Reuters, less than two weeks after terrorists killed 3000 on September 11th, 2001. As James Taranto noted:
Stephen Jukes, global news editor for Reuters, the British wire service, has ordered his scribes not to use the word terror to refer to the Sept. 11 atrocity. . . . "We all know that one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter and that Reuters upholds the principle that we do not use the word terrorist," Jukes writes in an internal memo. "To be frank, it adds little to call the attack on the World Trade Center a terrorist attack."

Reuters is the most self-righteous about it, but many other news organizations also use terms like militants, commandos, guerrillas and even dissidents to refer to terrorists--even though in some cases these terms are not only overly solicitous to the enemy but factually inaccurate (a guerrilla attack, for instance, has a military target, while a terrorist attack targets civilians).

Back to Libertas, where Jason concludes:
Get used to it folks: Hollywood is absolutely, unequivocally, unambiguously, taking the side of Terrorism in the War on Terror.
And yet they wonder why their American revenues are down.



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