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[solarbird]

Harper's Magazine, one of the few outlets covering the show-trial of Pulitzer Prize winning news photographer Bilal Hussein, has an article out on how the media participates in the furtherance of torture by refusing to let people call it torture, such as here:

I discovered that when I gave interviews to major media on this subject, any time I used the word “torture” with reference to these techniques, the interview passage would not be used. At one point I was informed by a cable news network that “we put this on international, because we can’t use that word on the domestic feed.” “That word” was torture. I was coached or told that the words “coercive interrogation technique” were fine, but “torture” was a red light. Why? The Administration objected vehemently to the use of this word.