Has The Daily Telegraph abandoned its ‘coward attack’ campaign after a few weeks?

Six weeks ago News Corp’s The Daily Telegraph unveiled a new campaign — involving the NSW premier and police commissioner — that declared it would be referring to any alleged act of domestic violence as a “coward attack”, where the law permitted. 

“The assailants are really, by definition, the smallest of men. Our language should reflect that,” wrote editor Ben English and weekend editor Anna Caldwell in a July 12 editorial. 

An associated exclusive published that day quoted Police Commissioner Karen Webb referring to perpetrators as “cowards” who “have a choice” and were “choosing violence”.