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Cliche of the Week 122 – Brute Force. Brute force, where overwhelming numbers are used to roll a smaller opposition on a battlefield or in a political debate, is at best a short-term solution. It is also an easy option to use “brute force” in news reports, with the phrase appearing in mainstream media more than 300 times a month or twice that if web news is included. Chris Pash’s book, The Last Whale. A true story set in the 1970s about Australia’s last whaling station and the activists who fought to clo...
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Cliche of the Week 121 – Gone Ballistic | Chris Pash
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Cliche of the Week 121 – Gone Ballistic. March 3, 2013 at 1:50 pm. The incidence of cliches, those tired phrases that flow too easily when writing a news story, is steady and not quite ballistic. Similarly, the use of ‘gone ballistic’ isn’t that common worldwide but it’s a regular, with about 20 appearances a month. The sport (stand-up paddling) has gone ballistic across inland USA on rivers and lakes.” (Sunshine Coast Daily, January 11). Cliché of the Week appears in The Australian. A true story set in ...
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Cliche of the Week 122 – Brute Force | Chris Pash
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Cliche of the Week 122 – Brute Force. April 20, 2013 at 4:41 pm. Brute force, where overwhelming numbers are used to roll a smaller opposition on a battlefield or in a political debate, is at best a short-term solution. It is also an easy option to use “brute force” in news reports, with the phrase appearing in mainstream media more than 300 times a month or twice that if web news is included. Chris Pash’s book, The Last Whale. A true story set in the 1970s about Australia’s last whaling station and the ...
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Cliche of the Week 123 – Confected Outrage | Chris Pash
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Cliche of the Week 123 – Confected Outrage. May 4, 2013 at 1:05 pm. Place outrage in a bowl, mix well, add artificial sweetener and keep beating until a furious confection emerges thick and sticky enough to give substance to air molecules. 8216;Confected outrage’ has been erupting from news pages, mostly in Australia; 65 times in January compared with four times a month two years ago. Chris Pash’s book, The Last Whale. Entry filed under: Cliche of The Week. Cliche of the Week 122 – Brute Force. Enter you...
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The Last Whale – ABC Radio National’s Hindsight | Chris Pash
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The Last Whale – ABC Radio National’s Hindsight. June 2, 2013 at 5:19 pm. ABC Radio National turned the story of The Last Whale. Into a 50 minute radio documentary. It is the 1970s and the last whaling station in the English-speaking world, at Albany, Western Australia, is starting to feel the heat from the Save the Whale campaign. The program closely follows the book. The Last Whale, with new audio material gathered in Albany by Rod Vervest and Kim Lofts of the VoicePrints project. 1 Comment Add your own.
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Cliche of the Week 124 – Fifty Shades | Chris Pash
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Cliche of the Week 124 – Fifty Shades. May 4, 2013 at 1:07 pm. Fifty Shades of Grey, the trilogy of erotic books, has had undue influence on headline writers and anyone seeking a quick publishing dollar or trying to get punters to a fundraising night. Media coverage of Fifty Shades peaked in December with over 3000 appearances worldwide for the month. 8220;Marvel Comics Goes `Fifty Shades’ With New Line of Romance Novels.” (Hollywood Reporter, February 8). Chris Pash’s book, The Last Whale. A true story ...
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Cliche of the Week 125 – Acid Test | Chris Pash
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Cliche of the Week 125 – Acid Test. May 12, 2013 at 9:47 am. Use an acid test when digging through poor-quality ore and you may find sound political judgment, financial health or the presence of gold. Unfortunately, we use the term ‘acid test’ so often — several thousand times a month — in news reports that the term has become more base metal than sparkling riches. 8220;Class warfare tends to fail the acid test of lived experience.” (Orange County Register, February 21). Chris Pash’s book, The Last Whale.
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Cliche of the Week 126 – Belt tightening | Chris Pash
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Cliche of the Week 126 – Belt tightening. May 18, 2013 at 4:34 pm. Belt tightening is out of favour in Australia, at least until after the federal election, but the rest of the world continues to suck in stomachs and place fat budgets on subsistence diets. The phrase is being used across the world in news reports up to 1,400 times per month compared to about 500 two years ago. This standard attempt to describe fiscal rigour mostly appears in the USA followed by business reporting about Europe. A true sto...
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Cliche of the Week 2 – CUT TO THE CHASE | Chris Pash
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Cliche of the Week 2 – CUT TO THE CHASE. June 6, 2010 at 11:26 pm. Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd executed a high-wire double cliche. Sentence : “But the bottom line is, the measures, at the end of the day, were not sufficient, and let’s just be frank about that.”. But recently he more often says cut to the chase. As a verbal marker when he is about to get to the point. Read the full report. In The Australian newspaper. And see the video clip here. Entry filed under: Cliche of The Week. Cliche of t...
