COMMENT POSTED TO A STORY IN THE GUARDIAN
"Regime uproots
9,000 people near huge telescope hoped to find aliens" says The
Guardian’s front page.
Regime?
Maybe it's just me, but I thought it was "the
government of China" at work here?
Uproots?
The word choice betrays bad intent.
A choice of words is everything in politics, as Orwell
taught us.
For another nation with a big project, you undoubtedly would
have written, "relocates" or “resettles.”
To find aliens?
Please, you don’t invest that kind of money and work in the
search for aliens. Radio astronomy has made some of our most important
discoveries in space, and the Chinese facility will be a terribly important
scientific facility for the whole world.
Shame on you.
Is Rupert Murdoch now a full-time consultant to this
supposedly progressive newspaper?
