The BBC seems fond of the word "activist". Here are some examples of people whom the BBC chooses to describe as "activists".
People who campaign for the kinder treatment of animals:
Activists welcome zoo closurePeople who campaign for political parties in democratic elections:
The zoo is due to close in September. Campaigners have urged the managers of Glasgow Zoo to abandon plans to create a new animal-based visitor attraction.
BJP ministers have been asked to report to the party office and interact with grassroots party activists.People who exercise their collective bargaining rights:
A rail union activist was unfairly demoted during a recent pay-dispute, an employment tribunal has ruled.People who engaged in peaceful protest to end racial segregation:
As activists gather in Birmingham, Alabama, 40 years after the climatic battle of the civil rights era...People who campaign for democracy in Zimbabwe:
MDC members of parliament and student activists were arrested by the army, Mr Chimedza said.People who campaign to support their favorite foods:
Pie activists confident of victoryPeople who blow themselves up while plotting to murder Jews:
Campaigners have collected more than 8,000 signatures on a petition calling for protection of the Melton Mowbray pork pie.
Gaza blast kills Hamas activistsPosted by Stefan Sharkansky at June 27, 2003 10:49 AM
At least five Palestinians have died in an unexplained blast in southern Gaza City, witnesses and hospital officials say. Representatives of the militant group Hamas said the dead were Hamas activists.
Ever since the Patty Hearst debacle in the '70s, when the press described some involved party as a 'sports activist' without deigning to say much about what he ever did, the word has been media code for Good Guys, no questions asked. If you were to think that someone building a cabin on their own property in the woods were an 'architectural activist', your wrist would be slapped: the 'activist' is the tree-hugger who burns the cabin to prevent urban sprawl.
Posted by: Insufficiently Sensitive on June 27, 2003 01:03 PMThe activists at the BBC were preceded in earlier days by journalists.
Posted by: blakeey on June 28, 2003 02:54 AMTerrorism=when London is attacked by people who are labeled activists when they attack Jews.
Posted by: cosmicview on June 28, 2003 08:54 AM