Is Using The Term 'Illegal' A Generational Thing?

Is Using The Term 'Illegal' A Generational Thing?
FILE - In this Oct. 21, 2009 photo, The New York Times building is shown in New York. The publisher of The New York Times, The Boston Globe and other newspapers said Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011 that it earned $15.7 million, or 10 cents per share, in the July-September period. Thats up from a net loss of $4.3 million, or 3 cents per share, a year earlier. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
FILE - In this Oct. 21, 2009 photo, The New York Times building is shown in New York. The publisher of The New York Times, The Boston Globe and other newspapers said Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011 that it earned $15.7 million, or 10 cents per share, in the July-September period. Thats up from a net loss of $4.3 million, or 3 cents per share, a year earlier. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Two of the biggest names in print journalism, The New York Times and the Associated Press, continue to use the term "illegal immigrant," despite the controversy over the phrase. And this is in a time when editors at many of the nation's top twenty college newspapers, as rated by the Princeton Review, say the term is outdated and inaccurate, and have banned it from their own papers.

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