STUPID OMBUDSMAN: "To tag Hamas, for example, as a terrorist organization is to ignore its far more complex role in the Middle East drama. The word reflects not only a simplification, but a bias that runs counter to good journalism. To label any group in the Middle East as terrorist is to take sides, or at least appear to, and that is not acceptable. The same holds true in covering other far-flung conflicts. One person's terrorist is another's freedom fighter; it's not for journalists to judge." –Christine Chinland, the Boston Globe's ombudsman (ombudswoman?), refusing to "take sides" against a group whose sole reason for existence is to murder civilians. Which is more "not acceptable"- blowing up a bus, or calling the people who did it "terrorists"? What brainless, heartless, gutless vapidity.
But hey, who are we to judge?