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New York Post Style Guide for White American Political Violence

02/19/2010 by Jim Naureckas

The New York Post (2/19/10) has an interesting front page on the anti-government protester flying his plane into an office building.  After the bad pun ("KAMIKAZE ATTAX!"), the subhead reads:

Fed-Up Madman Crashes Plane Into IRS Building

"Madman"--because unlike, say, Nidal Malik Hasan, Joseph Stack is not a "terrorist" whose actions might discredit a wider political movement. And "Fed-Up" because...maybe he has a point?

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3 Responses to “New York Post Style Guide for White American Political Violence”

  1. Doug Latimer Says:
    February 19th, 2010 at 6:32 pm

    Glenn Greenwald's excellent piece on this:

    Terrorism: The Most Meaningless and Manipulated Word

    http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/19-1

  2. Interesting News From Elsewhere « La Flog Says:
    February 19th, 2010 at 8:10 pm

    [...] has some interesting commentary on the NY Post's portrayal of Joe Stack's attack on the IRS building in [...]

  3. The “Madman” in Austin | Pax Nortona - A Blog by Joel Sax Says:
    February 24th, 2010 at 9:41 pm

    [...] addLoadEvent(meyshan_search_king_autocomplete_activate); The media was quick in its assessment: Joe Stack was a "madman" not a "terrorist". As far as I know, no one has produced evidence that Stack was receiving medical care or had been [...]

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