More and more today, we journalists have become prisoners of the language of power.
Is this because we no longer care about linguistics? Is this because lap-tops 'correct' our spelling, 'trim' our grammar so that our sentences so often turn out to be identical to those of our rulers? Is this why newspaper editorials today often sound like political speeches?
Let me show you what I mean.
Excerpt from an address by Robert Fisk, The Independent newspaper's Middle East correspondent, at the fifth Al Jazeera annual forum in Doha on May 23. Read the full text of the address here to understand why Fisk is making it clear that journalists should have no truck with "rulers", whoever they may be.
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