Obfuscation, false delicacy and cowardice in the face of feminist stylistics hangs in the air like fog over the Grand Banks. The fog, at least, belongs. But reporters and editorial writers are not freestyle sociologists sponge bathing in the murk of political correctness. And they surely know that the sensibility of the people they are reporting on is at least as important as the putative sensibilities of some smidgen of people they are reporting to. It should be noted, and it is worth noting, that Quebec is not the only place where they have language police.
Courage is a very mixed phenomenon.
It's politically correct without having to at least announce itself politically correct. It's sly political correctness. Let's make a deal. Within the precincts of the broadcast buildings and editorial houses, let's keep on with camerapersons and soundpeople, copypersons and newspeople. You don't believe it yourselves.