Thursday 23 June 2011

Cliché watch

When people's jobs are lost, it's always a 'JOBS BLOW' in journalistic language. As a punishment for reaching for the clichés, whizzy graphics have proved the BBC's undoing:

Chris Morris would be proud.

2 comments:

  1. Can't 'beat' this. Though 'this' is intentional I guess.

    http://ashtonelijah.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/obama_beats_weiner_nypost.png

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  2. Sorry, blogger cuts off the end of any link I paste in for some reason. It's just the New York post 'OBAMA BEATS WEINER' headline. Gedit? I'm gonna go watch people fall over on YouTube now, sorry.

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