Prisoner exchange?

How can the NY Times (and many others reporting the story) describe the exchange of five live Hezbollah "militants" (the CBC's word) for the remains of two Israeli soldiers as a "prisoner exchange"? Those dead are no prisoners.

But I suppose moral equivalence must be retained by our objective, er, journalists. And, crikey, even David Frum does it!

Mark C.

Posted by markc at July 17, 2008 08:44 PM