Orwell taught us about newspeak, Holmes taught us about verbicide, but local news uses their own stable of knackered clichés, dishonest euphemisms, irritating and trite nonsense. What the bloody hell do they teach in journalism schools? Ted Baxter would be an improvement. Here is a list of stupid and maddening words and phrases:
☐ tight knit (this is the most trite)
☐ the unthinkable (this is the most stupid)
☐ "even" used as a conjunctive before a third item
☐ officer involved shooting
☐ check it out
☐ (variations of) both sides
☐ (verb) to perfection
☐ (i/we/the station) reached out
A special subsection is for sports talk:
- dinger
- goes yard
- good guys
- edge rusher
- walk off
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