Bleacher Creature
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Tue Jun-14-05 03:44 PM
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Getting a little tired of the "so-called" crap (re: DSM) |
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Why is it the "so called" Downing Street Memo? Objectively, that is what people are calling it.
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Tue Jun-14-05 03:50 PM
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Got any links? I haven't heard that.
But even if that's the case, they have a point in that it was not named "The Downing Street Memo" by the people who authored it. It was named that by the media. And so the use of "so-called" is, in this case, perfectly apropos. The connotation may be problematic, sicne it may connote that the document is false, but on its face there's nothing wrong with this usage.
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Tue Jun-14-05 03:56 PM
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Tue Jun-14-05 04:02 PM
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4. This sort of makes my second point. |
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They refer to it as "so-called" in the lead, but not after that. I think it's harmless. The same media were refering to White Water as "so-called" when Clinton was president. It's a reference to the authorship of the title, not the factual basis.
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Tue Jun-14-05 04:03 PM
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5. I'll buy that -- I guess I'm getting to be a bit too jaded. |
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Thanks for the perspective.
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Tue Jun-14-05 04:10 PM
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6. Hell, I'm just glad they're discussing DSM at all n/t |
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Tue Jun-14-05 03:54 PM
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2. Downing Street Minutes. |
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Recorded minutes from actual meetings with officials. That's what it is, what it always will be.
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