



1 (def 31).
newspapers and magazines collectively; the press
news reports presented factually without analysis


Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you’re at it. [Horace Greely (1811-1872), U.S. journalist]

Journalese “language typical of newspaper articles or headlines” is from 1882.


[Géo] London was in western France covering the trial of a parricide that began in mid-afternoon. Because he had an early deadline, he telephoned a story that he was certain would take place: an angry crowd cursing the accused as he was marched to the courthouse from his holding cell at the police station. London then relaxed over lunch until he saw with dismay the guards and the prisoner coming but “not even the shadow of a gawker.” His reputation at stake, he stalked to the door, cried out, “Kill him!” and returned to his table. [Benjamin F. Martin, “France in 1938”]


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