mediaspeak

In mediaspeak, if you thought invading Iraq and signing the NAFTA trade pact were good ideas, you're a pragmatist.

Jeff Cohen: Announcing the P.U.-litzer Prizes for 2008 2009

"In mediaspeak and political discourse, the human toll of corporate domination and the warfare state is routinely abstract," wrote Solomon.

America's top exports: Grief, sorrow, and loss 2008

Why does the "national conversation" (itself, a nauseating bit of politico-mediaspeak) never quite reach critical mass on something like that?

Marc Kusnetz: Imus and the National Conversation 2008

In mediaspeak and political discourse, the human toll of corporate domination and the warfare state is routinely abstract.

Norman Solomon: In Honor of My Mother and the Power of Love 2008

In mediaspeak, if you thought invading Iraq and signing the NAFTA trade pact were good ideas, you're a pragmatist.

Announcing the P.U.- litzer Prizes for 2008 2008

Understanding that the key to new media is the conversation rather than the content is part of reaching understanding; but when there is much p.r. telling individuals who desire to participate that the currencey they must distribute is information – with, perhaps a pithy comment or two - the opportunity for conversation can easily be curtailed and fashioned as old-mediaspeak.

Who wants to own content? « BuzzMachine 2005

The practice of suffixing words with "- speak" and "- think" (groupthink, mediaspeak) as well as the abbreviation of "luv" for love arguably originated with the novel. [citation needed]

Background information for George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four 1949

Riot Acts spotlights and identifies the names of a wealth of artists -- from the ridiculously talented Novice Theory to San Francisco's storytelling hip-hop MC Katastrophe and the positively anarchic Trannysaurus Sex -- but the movie never tries to shoehorn them into biology-is-destiny square pegs of mainstream mediaspeak.

Baltimore City Paper 2010

This one says "'Asians,' of course, is UK mediaspeak for Muslims."

Seeing the Forest 2009

In this latest case a gang of "Asian" men (mediaspeak for muslims) including Waqas Shah racially abused Dean Cotterill, his girlfriend and sister as the trio were standing outside of a pub - minding their own business - having a smoke.

UP Pompeii 2008