Something amazing is happening at the Daily Telegraph. Something virtually unseen in the news media for decades. It is hidden in plain view and so it deserves some attention to highlight just how impressive it is.
In some recent news stories from the Telegraph, “men” actually exist.
Regarding the Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster, the newspaper actually uses the word “men” to describe the men who died, something that the vast majority of news sources go out of their way to avoid except where said men are criminals.
- When men died at a Texas oil refinery, the Telegraph writes “…an explosion in 2005 that killed 15 men”. Not workers; men.
- When men died due to the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the Telegraph writes “…exploded last month, killing 11 men”. Not people; men.
Now compare those articles with typical news writing where men that die are too worthless to rate a mention and only their job function is of relevance:
- The Daily Mail
- The BBC (the original and best exponent of misandry)
- The Independent
- The Huffington Post
- The Washington Post
- et al
The word “men” is always used by reporters when they commit crimes or are to blame for something, but at the Telegraph – specifically from their energy correspondent Rowena Mason – men are now also allowed to exist when they are the victims of tragedies.
I’ve explored this before:
Misandry – Men Don’t Exist
(YouTube version)
07m 28s
The denial in the news media of the existence of men except as criminals is near absolute. It is cast-iron editorial policy that the word “men” must never be mentioned – literally a case of “he-who-must-not-be-named” – except where such use promotes a negative image of the male sex.
When men are killers, they are called men, but when they are killed they are called people. Similarly, when men save people’s lives they are rescuers; when men are injured at work they are workers; when men are killed in action, they are soldiers.
Men are universally treated as human doings instead of human beings.
Are they Men, or are they only Rescuers?
(clip from film Women Focus)
01m 08s
Praise where praise is due
This blanket policy against men is easily verifiable, and it is what makes the contrary actions of the Daily Telegraph so remarkable and worthy of praise. Someone in their editorial department, someone senior, has decided that the paper will allow the recognition of men and that they will not ignore, hide or suppress information concerning the suffering and bravery of men.
Of course, they don’t always do it, nor to they even mostly do it, but the fact that they do it at all is exceptional.
This is no small thing that the Telegraph is doing here and due recognition should go to Rowena Mason for her fairness and undoubted bravery in daring to buck the accepted rules for describing men. I use the word “bravery” specifically because it is a brave act to write in a way that is not approved in our Feminist-dominated media.
This is a breath of fresh air and perhaps an inkling of better times to come for the presentation of men in the media. If we are getting to a stage where men are duly recognised as men when they die, then we are perhaps also heading for a time when the overwhelmingly positive actions of men, that they perform day-in and day-out, might also be recognised.
Update!
Looks like Reuters is getting in on the act! Credit for recognising men goes to the Reuters reporter Kristen Hays and/or the editor Anthony Boadle. (04Sep2010)
This is indeed good news. Send her a Golden Feather of courage. Send the others a white feather of cowardice.