If you control the language, you control the culture

Andrea Mitchell interrupts reporter to chide him for referring to demonstrators as advocating “pro-life”. Proper media-speak demands that these people be labeled as “anti-abortion”, just as pro-abortionists are now called “pro-choice”.

Until earlier this week, the chastened reporter’s bosses could have shooed him back out to conduct further field research on the respective terms, but now they have no place to send him.