journalese

Anachronism and journalese may be the way to get the Word across.

But here I am falling into journalese, because, besides everything else, he must have been driven by a genuine curiosity.

That's journalese for "I'm afraid of being made a fool of."

In journalese, sourcing means "getting some living person or historical citation to justify an assertion."

The signification of the arch pause with an er or an um is rampant in journalese.

What makes gibberish of it is a "cute" piece of journalese known as the false title.

"So far from paradox," said his brother, with something rather like a sneer, "you seem to be going in for journalese proverbs.

Journalese is the artificial or hyperbolic, and sometimes over-abbreviated, language regarded as characteristic of the popular media.

Written in the best approved Citizen journalese, it read: Fellow human beings, we've been suckered again.

In Journalese, to perform upon a musical instrument; as, "He presided at the piccolo."

Joe Grimm: "There is no ease in journalese"

Significantly, the lightweight Smash Hits journalese became out-moded once more.

'There are innuendoes in the journalese," he said, "that I don't like.

They sounded more like the members of some remote Amazonian rain-forest tribe discovered by an anthropologist with a taste for journalese.

Journalese was interesting.

The official Presidential position on the dread subject of tax increases (hikes in journalese) in budget talks was no preconditions.

She knew I disliked the journalese term, and I knew she liked to use it.

One would expect against in AE also for this sense, and the of can be attributed to journalese or some other aberrant style.

John Leo: "Do you speak journalese?"

These experiences contributed to her treatise on journalism in New Zealand, Journalese, published in 1934.

In a section on the pirate attacks, the language strains with anachronistic journalese to draw parallels with the war on terror.

The local papers referred to him, in inimitable Indian journalese, as the "forest brigand" Veerappan.

Mr. Strand argues that Americans have become too dependent on journalese, that our tolerance for the complicated is minimal.

For even fewer, they were something to recycle and celebrate in music, movies and plays, as well as in the journalese of the new journalism.

John Arlott called him "a natural talker with a reasonable vocabulary, a good rugby mind and a conscious determination to avoid journalese."