The Iran war has exposed the fragility of the global energy system as countries remain dependent on fossil fuels. Could renewables like wind, solar, hydropower and photovoltaic shield people from the shock?
Calling it “Israel War” would just be wrong, because neither is Israel the one who’s being attacked, nor are Israel’s girls elementary schools being turned into rubble.
Ok, that’s a good argument, however I’m throwing a new one into the ring myself: I think the “LocationX War” naming schema should not be used.
Compare it to naming diseases after (supposed) places of origins such as the Spanish flue. In contrast, Coronavirus disease 2019 was explicitly named after the virus to avoid mixing cause and location. Which of course didn’t stop people like Trump to call it China flue anyway, but we digress …
Partially this schema is used already. I.e. “The American War for Independence” is a war initiated by the people of the soon-to-be USA against their colonial sovereign Great Britain caused by a wish for independence. So IMO same as with diseases the name should derive from the cause, not from the location. Therefore, better alternatives to “the Iran war” are:
The war in Iran
The US-Israel war
The US-Israel war in Iran
The nuclear disarmament war (if you go by official US statements *cough cough*)
Therefore, better alternatives to “the Iran war” are:
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The US-Israel war in Iran
How about “US-Israel war with Iran”, which they already use. But in a headline you want to be short and concise. If you write “the Iran war” today, everyone knows which war you mean and who started it, there’s no need to repeat it in every headline. For the same reason they write about “renewables” instead of “renewable energies such as wind, water, biomass and solar power” and they write about “energy crisis” instead of “oil and oil-product supply crisis”. Because
How the US-Israel war in Iran oil and oil product supply crisis caused by the blockage of the Strait of Hormuz by Iran in response to the US-Israeli attacks strengthens the case for renewable energies such as wind, water and biomass which some countries in Europe already produce a lot of
Makes sense. DW is German and consuming to anything related to Israel in the mainstream German media landscape drives you insane very quickly. You think our press is stellar compared to most places but it‘s a bizzaro world when it comes to the near east. The lies and double think is unbearable.
What’s worse is all of it is supposed to be free from influence as it is paid individuals directly. But instead all Public media is Germany when talking about Israel, literally parrots Israeli govt propaganda, especially in German outlets.
No, because that’s not what DW used as headline.
It’s a sign of their bias, yes, but removing it is “editing” the article in a sense.
It’s not a sign of their bias (which might or might not exist), it’s just how we name wars: Vietnam War, Afghanistan War, Kosovo War, Ukraine War, Afghanistan war (again, this time with another aggressor, but still named after the attacked party)…
Calling it “Israel War” would just be wrong, because neither is Israel the one who’s being attacked, nor are Israel’s girls elementary schools being turned into rubble.
Ok, that’s a good argument, however I’m throwing a new one into the ring myself: I think the “LocationX War” naming schema should not be used.
Compare it to naming diseases after (supposed) places of origins such as the Spanish flue. In contrast, Coronavirus disease 2019 was explicitly named after the virus to avoid mixing cause and location. Which of course didn’t stop people like Trump to call it China flue anyway, but we digress …
Partially this schema is used already. I.e. “The American War for Independence” is a war initiated by the people of the soon-to-be USA against their colonial sovereign Great Britain caused by a wish for independence. So IMO same as with diseases the name should derive from the cause, not from the location. Therefore, better alternatives to “the Iran war” are:
How about “US-Israel war with Iran”, which they already use. But in a headline you want to be short and concise. If you write “the Iran war” today, everyone knows which war you mean and who started it, there’s no need to repeat it in every headline. For the same reason they write about “renewables” instead of “renewable energies such as wind, water, biomass and solar power” and they write about “energy crisis” instead of “oil and oil-product supply crisis”. Because
How the US-Israel war in Iran oil and oil product supply crisis caused by the blockage of the Strait of Hormuz by Iran in response to the US-Israeli attacks strengthens the case for renewable energies such as wind, water and biomass which some countries in Europe already produce a lot of
is not a good headline.
Makes sense. DW is German and consuming to anything related to Israel in the mainstream German media landscape drives you insane very quickly. You think our press is stellar compared to most places but it‘s a bizzaro world when it comes to the near east. The lies and double think is unbearable.
What’s worse is all of it is supposed to be free from influence as it is paid individuals directly. But instead all Public media is Germany when talking about Israel, literally parrots Israeli govt propaganda, especially in German outlets.