Its interesting to read Daesh in Boston Globe, a western propaganda media. The usage of the degrading Daesh is very common in Russian friendly media like vineyardsaker or southfront.

Well, those old Russian propaganda experts knew, that its important to deny them their prefered words like "Islamic" and "State", but instead call them with a bad word, that accidentally is also an acronym of their name.

PS: consortiumnews is also using Daesh