Tuesday, July 19, 2011

In Terms of Bollocks 5

Mark Somebody-or-Other reporting from Watford on the BBC 10.00 a.m. news about the death of Sean Hoare :

"Very little has been heard in terms of detail about"  =  "Few details have been heard"

A minute later he went on to say something like "In terms of the loss of a key witness this is a big problem for the policy inquiry going forward"  = "The loss of a key witness is a big problem for the police".

Even when journalists have a big story to report they can't resist padding it out using ten crappily fashionable pseudo-intellectual words when five plain and simple grammatical words are all that is required.

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  1. "Even when journalists have a big story to report they can't resist padding it out using ten crappily fashionable pseudo-intellectual words when five plain and simple grammatical words are all that is required." = Journalists can't resist talking bollocks.

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