March 18, 2008
Counting the clichés
Tech journalist Evgeny Morozov has launched a new site tracking journalistic clichés called Killthecliché.
I'm proud to say four out of his top ten chichés of "all time" have appeared in my copy within the past few days. They are "unrest", "insurgent", "amid" and "death toll".
I wish I could claim another of his "all time" media clichés which is "slain". But I am too damned British. We keep our upper lips stiff and say "killed", "murdered" or "shot dead". (Factiva shows only two uses of the word "allegedly" in the past two years though, which is a relief.)
Now that I have been found out, I suppose I ought to start making more use of my online thesaurus.
Brace yourselves for a run of articles about the contumacious members of Darfur insurrectionist aggregations.
Posted by aheavens at March 18, 2008 6:52 AM
Comments
"contumacious members of insurrectionist aggregations"
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Posted by: quixote at March 19, 2008 3:59 AM
Kill the Cliché is basically amazing. Thanks for posting about this. My submission to the site: mass exodus ;)
Posted by: Amani at March 21, 2008 5:36 AM