MEDIA LANDSCAPE JARGON BUSTING EVENT SPACE
March 15th 2009 03:30
The media, once a bastion against jargon, has now become a haven for jargon junkies as journalists are swept up into the heady world of new words that they presumably assume gives them modernity, currency, and legitimacy.
Journalists were once deemed guilty of newspeak, of cutting language to the core to save space in a newspaper, or reducing long-winded sentences to pithy headlines. This trend presumably has led to the removal of ‘on’ as a prefix when introducing days of the week, hence “he became president on Thursday,” now becomes “he became president Thursday.’
But the new jargon, rather than shortening sentences, mostly lengthens them.
For example, now the media, reporting on the media, is no longer comfortable just using the word ‘media.’
Instead media reports are liberally sprinkled with the new jargon where the media is was no longer the simply the media, but ‘the media community’, 'the media environment,’ ‘the media space,’ or the new in-vogue term, ‘the media landscape.’
MediaBlab now declares itself the new watchdog of crime against the English language, and will regularly report on media space transgressions in the Jargon Busting Event Space space.
Journalists were once deemed guilty of newspeak, of cutting language to the core to save space in a newspaper, or reducing long-winded sentences to pithy headlines. This trend presumably has led to the removal of ‘on’ as a prefix when introducing days of the week, hence “he became president on Thursday,” now becomes “he became president Thursday.’
For example, now the media, reporting on the media, is no longer comfortable just using the word ‘media.’
Instead media reports are liberally sprinkled with the new jargon where the media is was no longer the simply the media, but ‘the media community’, 'the media environment,’ ‘the media space,’ or the new in-vogue term, ‘the media landscape.’
MediaBlab now declares itself the new watchdog of crime against the English language, and will regularly report on media space transgressions in the Jargon Busting Event Space space.
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