Verbal Camouflage: How US newspeak softens hard truths

The political forum is often the place where new words and phrases are invented to soften the hard truth. But as RT’s Marina Portnaya asks, can the new vocabulary really distract public attention away from urgent issues? RT LIVE rt.com Subscribe to RT! www.youtube.com Like us on Facebook www.facebook.com Follow us on Twitter twitter.com Follow us on Google+ plus.google.com RT (Russia Today) is a global news network broadcasting from Moscow and Washington studios. RT is the first news channel to break the 500 million YouTube views benchmark.
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23 Responses to Verbal Camouflage: How US newspeak softens hard truths

  1. Heliodrome7 says:

    That made me sick! So true, we are living in the world of hypocrites…

  2. Bat Masterson says:

    After the show ended its run on NBC in 1961, Barry moved to ABC to star as an LA detective in “Burke’s Law,” which lasted until 1966. The show was revived on CBS nearly 30 years later with Barry again in the lead but lasted only one season.

  3. Adam Bull says:

    Say what you mean and mean what you say. If you have to make up a new word to describe the exact same thing, you’re probably doing it wrong.

  4. Jay Stimson says:

    You can ignore reality but you cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

  5. mphello says:

    This is exactly why the poor and politically powerless need to phrase words in exactly the same way. There is no such thing as “terrorism”. There is just patriotic heroic duty and moving atoms around.

  6. sonny Godly says:

    ecumenical means one world church,,,look it up in dictionary

  7. sonny Godly says:

    They have not created any Jobs, except in China, so deport all rich usa folk to china

  8. shamanik1320 says:

    Also I definitely believe Julian is much more controlled than Chomsky. Chomsky may just be afraid of backlash from backing unpopular theories. Or you never know if someone is threatened in secret. So I shouldn’t be so hard on people. But I totally believe Julian is controlled by the CIA. But Bradley Manning is a hero for risking himself to give us that information and video footage. Too bad he will be going to prison for awhile because of it.

  9. shamanik1320 says:

    Just like Julian Assange, he says 911 conspiracies annoy him and we should be exposing “real conspiracies”, I believe he’s controlled opposition. Now just because someone is controlled opp, doesn’t mean that can’t be incredibly intelligent and experts on certain fields. It doesn’t make their words not valid. It just means I can’t trust them to give me the whole truth.

    I’ll check it out sometime though, but I have seen him a lot from back when I used to watch Freespeech TV on Dish.

  10. wnxsilance says:

    Ok, I was just wondering if you knew about Chomsky… Fair enough, I respect your opinion. I’d just recommend that you and others skeptical of Noam Chomsky take a closer look at his work. He’s been one of the foremost critics of the status quo presentation of government and media over the decades.

    I read Chomsky’s book 9/11 and am aware of his comments, but I don’t think that should be a reason to so quickly dismiss his work. Search “Manafactue of Consent” it’s really an excellent documentary.

  11. Maximus Parthas says:

    A great example of changing meanings would be “Emergency contraceptives”

  12. shamanik1320 says:

    Of course, what an idiotic question. I’ve seen plenty of his presentations and I think he’s not giving people the whole story and I think he’s a sell-out. That’s my opinion.

  13. Slavestorms says:

    Abandon all hope. the moral high ground is help by people who wish death on others and freely admits america is a colonial empire killing anyone that doesn’t think working, eating and shopping is the pinnacle of human achievement. You think breeding more soldiers for the neverending wars is a job well done, a life well spent? lol

    You totally miss the point, if you want the dirt on america you watch RT, if you want the dirt on russia watch BBC, if you want the dirt on England watch FOX and so on

  14. wnxsilance says:

    lol do you even know who Noam Chomsky is?

  15. shamanik1320 says:

    collected 4 samples of dust from the wtc event and had the samples analyzed and produced a peer reviewed scientific journal that was accepted into one of the main physics and chemistry science journals. They proved there were undetonated military grade munitions in the dust.

    To reiterate, Noam Chomsky is a farcical hack.

  16. shamanik1320 says:

    I know about him. He’s a fucking sham. Noam Chomskey doesn’t deserve to be in the same paragraph as George Carlin.

    Look up Noam Chomskey talking about 911. He saws the whole 911 truther movement is loony and we dont know what we’re talking about, but admits he doesn’t even know what the evidence is and doesn’t care. He’s a old overpaid coot with maybe some decent theories on other stuff but he’s a sell out.

    He goes “nanothermite? what is that?” he’s referring to a danish scientist that

  17. Spitfire995 says:

    The public sucks, FUCK HOPE — George Carlin RIP.

  18. nerses tatintsyan says:

    fuck rt its state run media its anti american i hope putin gets fucking cancer and dies long live the american empire

  19. agitare bene says:

    five words spilled on you

  20. avantgarde511 says:

    Well well if you dont understand the meaning of Zionism then its time for you to do some googledoo and shove your childish semantic up in your browney..

  21. Wasp16mm says:

    Russian Commissars The NKVD & Mao Zedong’s politically correct Maoist doctrine.
    nuff said!

  22. joshuaafisher says:

    What other vid? i have not specified any video.

  23. joshuaafisher says:

    Based on your response I would assume that you are simply not comprehending what reply, or you mistakenly replied to me when you meant to reply to someone else.

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