John Pilger and BBC World Affairs editor John Simpson have urged fellow journalists not to use terms such as ‘stone age' and ‘primitive' to describe contemporary tribal peoples, in a letter published in the Financial Times... Survival International's Director, Stephen Corry, said today, ‘Journalists all around the world need to understand that the use of these kinds of terms is not only inaccurate, but extremely harmful. They foster prejudices which lead directly to tribal peoples' suffering..."