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WAR OF WORDS AT THE BEEB
THE BBC hit back last night after being named as the people behind the weirdest politically correct phrase of the year.
The American Global Language Monitor said the phrase "misguided criminals" - used to describe the July 7 bombers - topped their Politically inCorrect poll.
GLM president Paul Payack said: "The BBC attempt to strip away all emotion by using what it considers 'neutral' descriptions when describing those who carried out the bombings in the London tubes."
But a BBC spokesman said: "We would welcome the full context of Mr Payack's comments, as his assertion that we labelled the July 7 perpetrators 'misguided criminals' appears to be complete nonsense to us They challenged GLM to prove the term had been uttered by one of their news staff.
The phrase is on the BBC's website - in a comment piece by world affairs editor John Simpson on the terror attacks.
Daily Record, 19 Nov 2005 - http://digbig.com/4fkcq
