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Words Pushed Their Way Into Media Lexicon in 2017

December 21, 2017Media, Online News, Social Medialexicon, newsonomics, NiemanLab, terms, wordsethicsadviceline

Media lexicon expands in 2017: Ken Doctor lists words that “pushed their way into our lexicon.”

Example: Useful idiots. “We weren’t so sophisticated in years past in cataloging our types of idiots.” The term unexpectedly was reborn in 2017.

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