JARGON BUSTING: AUSTRALIAN MEDIA RENDERS GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS INTO AN ACRONYM
October 3rd 2009 09:24
MediaBlab’s international jargon and acronym spotter is in Australia and reports that the now hackneyed term, global financial crisis, has been rendered into the acronym, GFC.
MediaBlab first spotted use of this acronym in the Australian edition of Media Week magazine some weeks back, but our man-on-the-spot reports, “Now that I’m down here, all I ever see or hear is GFC, so it's obviously an Australian media thing, not Media Week’s invention.
“What's weird is it seems to be used in a slightly removed manner, as if the crisis doesn't affect or relate to Australia, which just reinforces the feeling of disconnection in the Australian media.”
MediaBlab first spotted use of this acronym in the Australian edition of Media Week magazine some weeks back, but our man-on-the-spot reports, “Now that I’m down here, all I ever see or hear is GFC, so it's obviously an Australian media thing, not Media Week’s invention.
“What's weird is it seems to be used in a slightly removed manner, as if the crisis doesn't affect or relate to Australia, which just reinforces the feeling of disconnection in the Australian media.”
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