‘Fault Lines looks at the fight for control of the web, life in the digital age and the threat to cyber freedom, asking if US authorities are increasingly trying to regulate user freedoms in the name of national and economic security’:
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Compounding confusion: The word “Sikh” is pronounced “seek”’ — a guideline disseminated by Washington DC-based ONA (Online News Association), citing AAJA (Asian American Journalists Association). ‘Exactly wrong’, a (South Indian) friend points out, speculating that the guideline might have been ‘written, or influenced, by a South Indian’. The relevant guideline in the ‘Media Advisory on Coverage of Sikh Temple Shooting’ posted at the AAJA website now reads: ‘The word “Sikh,” according to multiple dictionaries, is pronounced “seek.” However, adherents of the faith use the pronunciation “sik-kh” (“kh” pronounced as in “Mikhail”).’ Meanwhile, the New York Times has advised that the correct pronunciation is ‘Sick’. So how should mystified American journalists, non-Asian and Asian, pronounce ‘Sikh’? http://www.aaja.org/media-advisory-on-coverage-of-sikh-temple-shooting/ New York Times guideline (better but not quite right): “Hours later, Mr. Singh was killed in the shooting rampage at a Sikh (pronounced Sick) temple in suburban Milwaukee that left six people dead and three wounded.” AAJA’s ‘Handbook to Covering Asian America’, a hard-worked and thoughtful compilation, is offered as ‘a resource in fairly, accurately and sensitively reporting on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders’: http://www.aaja.org/aajahandbook/ And here are ‘Additional Resources on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders’: Read RAS, which is free to all registered users: How China has gone about building its New Countryside: |
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