Here we go again! After a lengthy standoff in the Sahara desert, the Algerian army claims to have put an end to the takeover of a huge gas field and capture of dozens of hostages by Islamist terrorists affiliated with al-Qaeda. But that's not the way the New York Times and the Washington Post reported the event on-line. Both papers immediately cleansed the hostage takers, who terrified their captives by putting explosive belts around their necks, by describing them as just "militants." The T-for-terrorism word was expunged from their dispatches. The Times' on-line headline reads: "Militants Said to Kill 7 Hostages." Correspondent Adam Nossiter came closest to the T-word, but shied away by putting it between quotation marks to ensure that readers would know that it wasn't his doing. Nossiter instead wrote that the Algerian army carried out a final assault on the gas field that had been taken over by Islamist "militants," killing 11 of them, but only after the "militants" had killed seven hostages. The Washington Post similarly....
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