Media Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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train wreck n. Overshadowed and ignored by Commercial Radio where the main intention is to hold listeners attention until the next commercial, and largely an enigma on Public Radio where musical programming is mostly genre-specific. It’s derided as a “train wreck,“ mostly by those whose main musical interest is marketing it. But when it’s a train wreck, it’s at least a train wreck in an unexplored country. [English Media Music] [full cite] (Jun. 28, 2006)

train wreck n. Compared with most commercial stations, segueing from Whitesnake to Wings (a juxtaposition known as a “train wreck” in radio parlance) gives Jack an amateur status on par with college radio. [English Media Music] [full cite] (Jun. 28, 2006)

transclusion n. These components are then included by reference within documents, which is a practice often called “transclusion.“ Transclusion does away with reuse via copy-and-paste, an insidious practice that results in a spiraling loss of control, maintenance issues and the uncomfortable need to accept the lesser of two evils: (1) the reality of compounding maintenance burdens; or, (2) learning to accept inconsistent and out-of-date information. [English Media Online Technology Jargon] [full cite] (Jul. 11, 2008)

trend-humping n. My pal, who works in television, also introduced me to a new word: “trend-humping,“ a term used to describe the unthinking and instinctive frenzy to exploit a rising social trend in one’s coverage. [English Media] [full cite] (Feb. 13, 2007)

turf n. “If your mother sends you a letter to the editor saying she loves you, check it out. It might be turf. Today especially, there is an 80 percent probability it is turf.“ “Turf” is editorial page slang for form letters sent out by special interest groups to create the concept of a “grassroots” outpouring of opinion. The advent of the Internet has fertilized “turf” allowing it to sprout wildly. It is the crab grass of letters to the editor. [English Media Politics] [full cite] (Oct. 4, 2004)

turn someone over v. phr. Too public, it seems. The Mail on Sunday, in Fleet Street parlance, turned him over. Treating him like an errant soap star over two pages, it sunk its fangs into the English divorcee, highlighting his glamorous Jamaican girfriend and active social life. The implication: a man unfit to nail Bob’s killer. [English United Kingdom Media] [full cite] (Apr. 5, 2007)

value chain n. The companies that produce/own audio recordings, video, TV shows and films don’t trust the general public (a director of a large film distributor used those very words to me). Because they don’t trust you, they want to ensure that throughout the value chain (their words—meaning from production, to you watching it), the content will remain encrypted. The only time it’s not encrypted, is when it leaves the screen or speakers and hits your eyes/ears. [English Media Technology Jargon] [full cite] (Mar. 21, 2005)

Veblogestan n. “Weblogestan” is an Iranian online slang term for the realm of Persian-language blogs. (The time has definitely come for it to be adapted, and adopted, into Anglophone usage.) Over the last two years, Western journalists have looked at blogging as part of the political and cultural ferment in Iran — treating it, predictably enough, as a simple manifestation of the yearning for a more open society. Doostdar complicates this picture by looking at what we might call the borders of Veblogestan (to employ a closer transliteration of the term, as used specifically to name Iranian blogging). [Iran Media Technology] [full cite] (Mar. 29, 2005)

views paper n. The metaphor for this genre of modern journalism is, if you don’t mind me saying so, the Independent newspaper. Let me say at the outset that the Independent is a well edited lively paper and absolutely entitled to print what it wants, how it wants, on the Middle East or anything else. But it was started as an antidote to the idea of journalism as views, not news. That is why it was called the Independent, if you remember. Today it is avowedly a views paper, not merely a newspaper. [English Media New or Nonce] [full cite] (Jun. 21, 2007)

viewser n. Now, the technology is so advanced and changing, even the industry word for a person who watches TV has changed, Heizman says. It used to be “viewer.” The new word is “viewser.” Today’s viewser doesn’t necessarily watch TV. He might click to the station’s Web site, instead. [English Entertainment Media Technology Television Jargon] [full cite] (Jun. 26, 2006)

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