Is it just me or is the word ‘blast’ being over used in the coverage of the election?
Clinton blasts…
McCain blasts…
Obama blasts…
Everyone is blasting everyone and now a blasting just isn’t blasting anymore!
Cough.
How about ‘challenges’ or ‘attacks’?
Hmmm?
Or maybe ‘responds’ or ‘answers’?
Perhaps the press could try not announcing every verbal volley as if it marked the outbreak of WWIII?
Blink.
Oh, who the hell am I kidding? If the press gave a shit ‘bout this bitch there’d be a headline out there tomorrow saying ‘Shark-Fu blasts press for use of blast in blast filled post titled Blasted’.
Mercy.
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6 comments:
Good point, but being a mediaist myself, specifically one who write headlines, I can tell you exactly why "blast" is so overused:
It's shorter than most any other similar word any of us can think of on deadline.
Well that sure as hell was a well aimed blast. Bravo!
I've not commented before but you are on my daily must reads. I wanted to pass on an E for Excellent Award from my wee blog to yours as a thank you for speaking up and speaking out.
You can say more with a cough and a blink than most people I know do with multiple pages. Thank you, Shark-Fu, for all that you do.
that old schoool politicking is turning folks off nowadays
Well, my momma blasted me when we had a blow up over this race...
And running the risk of being disowned, I blasted her back(respectfully--kinda) on my blog.
Guess that's the buzzword of the day.
Reading this post was a blast.
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