Canada’s state-run media, AKA the CBC, has now adopted a level of newspeak that would fit perfectly well into George Orwell’s 1984. Look at this:
The Washington Post is no better:
Moonofalabama goes through a long list of American publications that similarly torture the English language to avoid telling the unvarnished truth.
For those who do not speak Newspeak, let me translate it into plain English. Newspeak can be a trifle confusing, given that the normal meaning of ‘evacuated’ is ‘rescued, and taken to safety’ as in ‘the British Expeditionary Force evacuated from Dunkirk back to England in small boats.’
Here ‘Ukrainian fighters evacuated’ means ‘Almost a thousand Azovstal Nazis surrendered under white flags and became prisoners of war in the Donetsk People’s Republic.’ It’s definitely harder to spin it as a Ukrainian victory in plain English.
I expect sometime in the next week or so a CBC report will carry the newspeak headline: ‘Sixteen thousand Ukrainian soldiers have stormed into Russian territory from Severodonetsk.’
Let me provide the English translation in advance: ‘Sixteen thousand Ukrainian soldiers today entered Russia as prisoners of war.’
Yes, I know the CBC has been maintaining for weeks that Ukraine is winning the war, but the Ukrainian troops in Severodonetsk are now almost completely surrounded. Their supply lines have been cut; they’re running out of ammunition. One can only hope they surrender soon, before too many more of them die.
I remember as a child being told that Canada and the US were so much better than Russia and China because we had a free press. That was then; this is now.
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Here's a moment of inadvertent honesty I'll wager you won't see on CBC: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2022-05-19/george-bush-makes-mother-all-gaffes