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Bill Maher rips into media for refusing to call 9/11 attacks ‘terrorism’

Comedian and talk host Bill Maher blasted media language rules that discourage journalists from using the word “terrorism,” mocking outlets that require attribution -- including guidance he argued makes little sense on the 25th anniversary of 9/11.

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Twenty-five years of “temporary”: how 9/11 built a surveillance state Americans never voted forThe towers fell in a single morning, but the government that rose from the rubble never stopped growing. A quarter-century after September 11, 2001, the emergency measures that the federal government swore were only temporary have calcified into a permanent architecture — an alphabet soup of agencies, a legal doctrine of pre-emption, and a surveillance…

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