Clichés you wish the media would lose?

I don't know if this is a media cliche, but the word "chillax," just by itself, out of context, can get my blood boiling.

Now, when i'm taking something seriously and striving for excellence in a given area, and someone says "chillax dude" I advice you to not be within 10 square miles of me. :)
 
I hate the phrase "stayed away in droves." Once upon a time, it might have been ironic, but the irony has been worn away and now people use it as if a drove of people are waiting, somewhere in the distance, staying away.

Total nonsense.

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spaceboots06 said:
Oh, be quiet! First of all people like you are completely uninformed and making wild, unintelligent statements. You remind me of the guy from American History X who said "we don't know them and we don't want to know them; they're the enemy." Do you realize that there are different kinds of Fox channels? There's a "universal" FNC and then there are local Fox channels. There's also the Fox movie channel and Fox business channel. I assume you're talking about FNC which is both entertaining and accurate.
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That may be in america, but here, I only get one Fox News channel, and it's like watching the international "let's stir things up" channel... Their motto should be "Storm in a tea cup"... :D

Sky and (to an extent) ITV news are exactly the same, both hyperbole everything, with stupid claims, it's ridiculous, but then, they are owned by Rupert Murdoch... (Well ITV only partially :p)
 
Schtumple said:
That may be in america, but here, I only get one Fox News channel, and it's like watching the international "let's stir things up" channel... Their motto should be "Storm in a tea cup"... :D

Sky and (to an extent) ITV news are exactly the same, both hyperbole everything, with stupid claims, it's ridiculous, but then, they are owned by Rupert Murdoch... (Well ITV only partially :p)
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The local Fox news affiliates, sports channels, and main network channel are normal. They report the news, they show sporting events, and show tv shows with no agenda.

But yeah, the people at Fox News Channel are a bunch of friggin' wankers. Bill O'Reilly works there. Enough said. Wanker.


And I'll agree with the "Breaking News" cliche. Sometimes they make it seem like a breaking news story is continuously breaking for hours and hours. Once it's broken, it's no longer breaking.
 
mgguy said:
The use of the word "now" to bridge to another thought or to lead into a new sentence. blah, blah, blah. Now, blah, blah, blah ...
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Yes, and Dan Rather used to flip CBS news to commercial break by just suddenly saying "Now this" and BLAM, you were watching the ad.

It gives you less time to head for the bathroom or kitchen than when the weather forecaster starts to say "...and when we come back, we'll have your Friday!"

(which itself has become an absurd cliché, all that "your Friday" stuff).
 
Awhile back, PBS anchor Jim Lehrer started introducing reports with "And here's [reporter name] with our lead story report."

I kept thinking what an oddly redundant construction that was. It's not a cliché, just odd... although it was headed in the direction of a cliché.

Not sure if he's still saying it. I axed all my podcast subscriptions because I got busy and they were piling up in my library.
 
TuffLuffJimmy said:
It's become completely over used lately but anything about Twitter. The absolutely worst one was where Lynette on Desperate Housewives explained to Tom in the in most textbook way what "Twitter" was.
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I agree...everyone loves Twitter these days. I personally find it hard to take TV news reports seriously when they mention a 'tweet' posted to the tune of 140 characters. :rolleyes:
 
Surely said:
And I'll agree with the "Breaking News" cliche. Sometimes they make it seem like a breaking news story is continuously breaking for hours and hours. Once it's broken, it's no longer breaking.
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One of the best is living in LA and a winter storm is predicted, they run Breaking News across the TV and cut to a reporter standing on the street and it's raining. The horror.
 
Not sure if its media..

Advertisers that overuse the word "door buster" in every single freaking ad they put out. Print, TV, etc.. That has got to be one of the most overused and abused 2 words in retail advertising right now. Or the "one day" sales that seem to come every week.
 
"Michael Jackson"

"9/11"

"The Economic Recession"






I know these are factual stories and not Clichés, but these day's, they may aswell be...
 
"Welcome back!"

Perhaps not a cliché, but… News readers/TV presenters who say "welcome back" after an ad break.

As far as I recall I hadn't moved my butt from the sofa. So why exactly do I need welcoming "back"?

:rolleyes:
 
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