Posts Tagged ‘journalism’

  • The elephant in the headlines

    Posted by Drew Stanley on August 10, 2009

    They come in waves, unstoppable forces sweeping across journalism and the media. Quite often you don’t notice them, perhaps not even until you’re saying one of them glibly to a friend. They’re the fashionable news sayings and idioms, like ‘the elephant in the room’, or ‘the perfect storm’. Both idioms are legitimate sayings of longstanding [...]

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  • The (poor) language of journalism – a lot less bad?

    Posted by Shane Rae on April 08, 2009

    Why is it that journalists seem to think that they are allowed the greatest licence when using the English language? Why do they not feel bound by the same linguistic restraints as the rest of us? Often they make up brand new words to describe something in a way they feel that no existing word [...]

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