Spinning and changing reality with the Associated Press

I agree with John at Americablog. Why are the AP and some other newsMedia "journalists" still calling the 14 year old Iraqi rape/murder victim a woman? I think I know and so does John. In the hell that is Bushopotamia, to the AP and others, the planning and then carrying out by these mutant(if the reports are true)US soldiers of raping and then murdering a "woman", and her 5 year old sister and parents is somehow not nearly as despicable if she actually were a "woman" and not a 14 year old girl. Puzzling but that's the "Liberal Media" today.





Look at the photo-It's by AP photographer Mohammed Hato and it's the passport of the Iraqi girl who was raped and murdered and shows that she was 14.

Here's John:

"First, why would a journalist call a 14 year old girl a "woman"?Second, AP has already been put on notice that folks were a bit concerned about their calling a 14 year old girl a "woman" - so why are they still doing it?Third, calling a 14 year old rape victim a "woman" even further trivializes the crime - not because raping "women" is somehow less offensive okay, but rather because raping children is even more offensive.So the question remains, knowing all of this, why would the Associated Press continue to use language in their story that is incorrect, misleading, and lessens the gravity of the true offense?Because the perpetrator was a US soldier, perhaps? Or because the victim was only some lowly Iraqi, and when they're raped, it's really only 3/5ths a rape?"

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