Eddie Whitlock's Blog: Reader and Writer - Posts Tagged "power"

Words

Words have power.

This week this power was evidenced by the careful use -and avoidance of the use- of the word "terrorism" in discussing the Boston Marathon bombing.

The truth? If you avoid a word so much that people notice you are avoiding it, you have given that word even more power.
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Published on April 17, 2013 07:53 Tags: bomb, bombing, boston-marathon, power, terrorism, word

Reader and Writer

Eddie Whitlock
I began to write because it seemed to be a realm in which one could exercise omnipotence. It's not.

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