“If American journalists flinch at merely calling a centuries-old body of water what it has always been known as, what will they flinch at next? History is full of regimes that began by controlling what people could say.”
Reposted from Oliver Darcy
GULF OF FEAR: This past week, when NASA astronauts returned to Earth, TV news networks avoided calling the body of water they splashed down in as the Gulf of Mexico.

Instead, they performed linguistic gymnastics to stay out of Trump’s crosshairs.

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