Mosque protest There is no mosque being built on the site of Ground Zero. It’s a simple fact, but one that news consumers can be forgiven for missing as they her hourly cable news updates and scan the headlines about a growing—and increasingly heated—national debate over the construction of an Islamic community center in lower Manhattan. An MSNBC spokeman said that describing the project is a “show-by-show decision,” but CNN and Fox News haven’t yet responded to the Upshot’s efforts to get them to explain their frequent use of “Ground Zero Mosque” to describe the planned building at the center of the furor. But the New York Times has explained why the paper of record has shied away from that designation—and the nation’s largest print news service, the Associated Press, has offered an account of how it tries to describe the project in text and headlines alike. (via News outlets split in describing mosque - Yahoo! News
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