jehovahs witness protection: My brain hurts.

The Screeching Weasels song was the first thing that came to my mind after reading that sentence as well.

Dead for Tax Reasons: i didn't see shiat, piss, fark, coont, cocksucker, motherfarker or tits in that article

Those are words you can't say on television. This is print. Carry on.

Give that man an A.

That list is crazy. For instance, you can's say retard, you have to say submitter instead.

"Newsspeak"?

this is doubleplusgood.

Lumox: jehovahs witness protection: My brain hurts.

The Screeching Weasels song was the first thing that came to my mind after reading that sentence as well.


Does not approve.

There are a few words I don't like hearing, some of which have already been listed (like 110% or LOL if you don't really LOL).

What really gets me is 'redouble'. So what, you're now giving 4x or 8x the effort? That adds up quickly.

Well, at least racial slurs are still allowed.

■In the wake of (unless it's a boating story)

lol i dont know why im laughing at this but lol

chimp_ninja: Senseless murder

What's wrong with that one? Murder can be rational and meaningful.

What about gratuitious use of the word 'Belgium'?

Super, but can they call it "torture" yet?

glwtta: chimp_ninja: Senseless murder

What's wrong with that one? Murder can be rational and meaningful.

Dead for Tax Reasons: i didn't see shiat, piss, fark, coont, cocksucker, motherfarker or tits in that article

Article? Sounds more like a Friday night at my house.

glwtta: What's wrong with that one? Murder can be rational and meaningful.

Well it's not really the job of a reporter to determine the value of a murder.


I think the guy is just trying to make his writers think a bit rather than spit out cliched news-speak.

I like the idea.

Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin van-guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition.
The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous.
Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.

glwtta: chimp_ninja: Senseless murder

What's wrong with that one? Murder can be rational and meaningful.

But how can you murder someone without touching, hearing or seeing?

/If you need to smell or taste your victims, I don't want to know.

did they say "Semprini?"

madgordy: did they say "Semprini?"

Lemon curry?

Not sure if it's in there, but the one I hate the most is "slap in the face", especially in union or government negotiations or discussions. I think just about every single decision that's ever been made has been a slap in the face to some group of people. Yet they all still say it like it means something.

Am I the only one frightened that George Carlin has come back from the dead?

First of all, subby. Tribune media is not "The State", so no, not so much for "state" censorship.

Also, it's more of a style guide.

I related news, it's getting harder and harder to listen to the news on the radio, (I need traffic reports), with my daughter. We really don't need to know the graphic details about how "he threw his daughter over the bridge" or (on NPR), how women and children "were beheaded". Seriously, to paraphrase Archie Bunker, "would it mean any less if they was pushed out of windows?".

They were murdered, for the full gory, R-rated version, read the print version online, otherwise, a simple "was murdered by" would suffice.

Wow. That writer is SO edgy, I don't even think he has a middle.
/sarcasm

Put me in the camp that agrees with the list. Especially the banning of mispronunciations of Iraq and Iran, we don't need our news media sounding like a bunch of yokels.

# "Two to one margin" . . . "Two to one" is a ratio, not a margin. A margin is measured in points. It's not a ratio.
# 5 a.m. in the morning
# Fatal death

agreed.

# Mute point. (It's moot point, but don't say that either)

agreed to the first part. not the second.

# Utilize (you mean use)

can i explain what synonyms are?

# Dubbaya when you mean double you
# Eye Rack or Eye Ran
# Hunnert when you mean hundred

perhaps you should stop hiring newscasters out of rural alabama.

Super, but can they call it "torture" yet?

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I would give my left kidney for someone to point that discrepancy out to them on-air.

Somewhere, George Carlin claps slowly for Randy Michaels.