In his 1946 essay, "Politics and the English Language," George Orwell famously decried the use of language by bureaucrats, politicians and corporations to obfuscate and distort reality. The media are not far behind: Now the BBC, in a misguided attempt at even-handed journalism, has reached new heights in the art of euphemism. What would it take to get the media to call a spade a spade?
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